Soundstorm VS Audigy

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I am upgrading my PC with a Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Im debating whether to go
with the onboard audio or keep using my SB Audigy. Any
advantages/disandvantages between the two. What would be the best choice ? I
am open to any opinions here.

Thanks,

JR
 
John said:
I am upgrading my PC with a Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Im debating whether to go
with the onboard audio or keep using my SB Audigy. Any
advantages/disandvantages between the two. What would be the best choice ? I
am open to any opinions here.

Thanks,

JR
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Why don`t you trust your own ear. It really doesn`t matter what I mean,
trust your own ears rather than mine.
I use the build in system and are very satisfied.

Mr Lund
 
John said:
I am upgrading my PC with a Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Im debating whether to go
with the onboard audio or keep using my SB Audigy. Any
advantages/disandvantages between the two. What would be the best choice ? I
am open to any opinions here.

Thanks,

JR
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I have the DX, and Soundstorm is better than my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.

But you need to compare yourself.
 
I just built up a A7N8X Deluxe system and put the Audigy board in. It seem
to work well and installed easily. I disabled the onboard audio chipset in
BIOS prior to the install.

- Mark
 
The built-in has noticably higher noise level. For games it doesn't matter,
but if you use it for some recording it does matter.
 
AS said:
The built-in has noticably higher noise level. For games it doesn't matter,
but if you use it for some recording it does matter.
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Not only that, most onboard sound controllers (except the nForce2
chipset) chew more CPU than the sound cards.

/cjr
 
Not only that, most onboard sound controllers (except the nForce2
chipset) chew more CPU than the sound cards.

/cjr
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So is the nForce2 chipset ala i875P w/ CSA for its onboard LAN? relieving
cross-bridge traffic?

I think onboard anything will still take a few CPU cycles for themselves,
sound/modem/nic/video etc
 
Not only that, most onboard sound controllers (except the nForce2
chipset) chew more CPU than the sound cards.
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So as he has an nForce 2 mobo that isn't an issue then.
 
Not only that, most onboard sound controllers (except the nForce2
chipset) chew more CPU than the sound cards.

/cjr
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I doubt the soundstorm has any problems like that on the DLX mobo, if it
does that sucks the big one for sure!

FWIW, on my A7N8X non-DLX w/onboard sound ALC650, running the WinXP
included pinball game in demo mode, (which uses wave files for sound),
with sound enabled in the game the CPU usage peeks at 16%, with sound
off it peeks at 4%. With a SB PCI 512 sound card installed the CPU usage
peeks at 4% regardless if sound is enabled or not in the game.

Ed
 
Philip said:
So is the nForce2 chipset ala i875P w/ CSA for its onboard LAN? relieving
cross-bridge traffic?
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I have no idea what you just said but:

There are 3 PCI Buses and one AGP on my A7N8X Deluxe.

I'll number them arbitrarily, since I'm in Windows, not Linux and I can't
work out which is which.

1: SATA and PCI Slots
2: 3Com NIC
3: Everything else, presumably the core of the Southbridge, so: Sound, USB,
nVidia NIC, Memory Controllers, IEEE1394, IDE, Floppy, etc.
I think onboard anything will still take a few CPU cycles for themselves,
sound/modem/nic/video etc
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Yeah.. of course, all devices will... but the question is "do the onboard
ones use noticeably more than the off-board ones?" and the answer is that it
depends. You can get crap PCI cards with much stuff done in software (e.g.,
winmodems) and you can get crap onboard with software decoding (e.g. many
AC97 onboard sound devices), but equally you can get good PCI cards and good
onboard stuff.

SoundStorm falls into the catagory of good onboard sound with very low cpu
utilisation - lower than an Audigy.

Ben
 
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