Sepember 30, 2013 - Video Cards, Sound Cards, Multimedia Gear, unknown programs, and more excel

Today we talked about video cards and how they work, the amount of RAM needed for the different resolutions, the different resolutions, the different types of displays. Also about the adapters used alongside video cards to get them to work with monitors. There is a plentiful amount of different adapters out there for just about every plug and socket. We had to use excel to come up with a very simple spreadsheet to what we would spend $500 and $700 gift cards on to upgrade our personal rigs for the video cards and video cables/adapters

We talked about sound cards, and also did a bit of research of what ones are available and which one that we would personally put into our personal rigs.

One of our tasks was to use a program that we were not familiar with, and make a project with it. Our task was to use Sony Acid to produce a (hopefully decent) one minute music clip from samples that we were also not familiar with. My clip can be found here if you care to take a listen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hz16gq9jat3d61c/MinuteLongMP%23.mp3

One of the side projects is keeping an excel worksheet up to update. With this excel sheet we are keeping track of a hockey pool that we selected, here is mine if you wish to take a look at it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x83aek2f9dikok3/hockey_pool_2013.xlsx

We had to come up with an example image on a 7.1 surround sound system using MSPaint: