Anyone wondering If the non soundstorm Nforce2 APU(MCP2) is Hardware or software sound take a look at this!

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The question was put to me On the NforcersHQ message board as to whether the MCP2 APU (Non Soundstorm version) was a hardware or Software audio solution. So I ran audio winbench to prove that it was indeed a Hardware APU and as it turns out a damn good one. From my tests My opinion is that it is identical to the MCP2-T APU minus the soundstorm(Dolby Digital) capabilities and naturally the digital ouputs. Take a look at these cpu utilization scores that i got with my Msi K7N2-L's onboard APU. Audio winbench cpu utilization scores For MCP2 apu on Msi K7N2-L motherboard. Definately hardware audio processing.