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Article posted on VIA's VIA Envy24 sound card
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My Midiman Audiophile 2496 uses the Envy24 chip... this is good stuff. Except the Midiman seems to have much better DAC quality, benchmarked at ~96dBA instead of ~90. However, the Terratec actually has DirectX drivers... while I'm forced to switch to onboard AC97 for games.
Check out the price on this sucker, though--retail $499, online $289. The Envy24-based Audiophile2496 is found for retail $229, online around $179--probably since it doesn't have Terratec's breakout box.
The only serious advantage of Terratec is DirectX support... Midiman lacks it, and can't be used for games.
The only serious advantage of Terratec is DirectX support... Midiman lacks it, and can't be used for games.
ummm, cause they do 😀
I only say that because over the past few years, I consistently have had more problems with Via products than anything else I have used. Sb problems, KX133 (pos), Via 4in1's crapping out system builds. Lets face it, Via is the 'Kmart' of the computing industry. Their products consistantly have problems, their support is suspect, and it only took Nvidia 1 try to match and in some cases exceed Via in its own hallmark industry, chipsets.
But i digress, this soundchip looks like it has some potential. Good luck with the drivers 😀😀😀
my msi KT266a board has been running solid for months.........built 2 other systesm with the shuttle ak31a and had the same success..........sounds like your probs are user errors (installing 4n1's isnt rocket science 😉)
btw.......ill admit earlier via chipsets were crap......but the KT266a/kt333 are rock solid products.
Every other couple of times I install the Via 4in1 drivers on anything but the latest incartion of the Via chipsets, they have various problems. Go take a look at the Via website, they offer a whole bunch of older versions of a set of drivers which is supposed to be backwards compatible with their products, I wonder why? I will admit, I have not used the latest 266a or kt333 incarnations of Via chipsets but I understand they have improved.
Hmm, the reason I pointed out the KX133 specifically was its inability to support the slot a thunderbirds while the much older AMD 750 chipsets could. That was a joke.
Exactly, Via who has been manufacturing Chipsets for its main bussiness for years, is getting pushed by a company which designed its first chipset core logic.... Do you think Via could match Geforce 4 Ti4600 performance on their first try if they decided to make Video cards.
Also, it will be very interesting to see what the new Nforce will do. I have a feeling Nvidia is going to edge out even the Kt333, but we will see 😀
What I get with my usually get with a VIA chipset is crappy audio, realtek LAN, usb that doesnt work right, IDE controllers that think everything is a scsi drive and refuse to implement dma properly. 4in1s that NEVER install properly, not to mention a few other drivers that are always unclear on whether they should be installed. I get problems with sound cards, low memory performance, and just plain instability.
What I got with my nforce is pretty much the total opposite. Same with any intel board I've ever owned.
VIA doesnt have a bad reputation for no reason you know. While some people may get lucky and have no problems, that doesnt mean other people wont, and that doesnt mean everyone else is doing it wrong. And if for the people that do do it wrong, maybe if they made it a lot easier to do it right to begin with, people wouldnt be complaining.
Besides, what does the KT333 offer over the nforce? More memory bandwidth? What use is that to the athlon?
What I got with my nforce is pretty much the total opposite. Same with any intel board I've ever owned.
VIA doesnt have a bad reputation for no reason you know. While some people may get lucky and have no problems, that doesnt mean other people wont, and that doesnt mean everyone else is doing it wrong. And if for the people that do do it wrong, maybe if they made it a lot easier to do it right to begin with, people wouldnt be complaining.
Besides, what does the KT333 offer over the nforce? More memory bandwidth? What use is that to the athlon?
paralazarguer
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I've been burned by VIA FAR too many times to ever buy that brand again no matter how good it's supposed to be. Fool me once...why did I let you fool me twice...third time I'm an idiot NEVER AGAIN!
Actually, it did work with the Slot A Tbirds, just ones over 900mhz caused trouble. Yeah, stupid Via, not supporting a CPU that the original chipset was not designed to support....
Just curious, if not for Via's KT133 and KT133A chipsets, just what would we have used those brand new Socket 462 Athlon's in? An AMD 750 board? We would all have just used the 750 with classic Athlon's until the 760 came along?
From what I remember, the KT133 was NO different than the KX133, except Via was kind enough to offer support for the new thunderbird proccessors, what a treat. So essentially, they fixed the KX133. Possibly, we could have used the brand new socket a athlons in slotkets in our older kx133 boards.
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