Audigy verus NForce2 onboard sound

[Yoyo77]

How does the onboard sound of the Nforce2 compare to the creative labs audigy. I current have the audigy card on a p3 system and planning to upgrading to an amd system soon. Since Nforce 2 boards have onboard sound already should I try to sell the audigy card and just use the onboard sound of Nforce2 or am I better off putting an audigy in there and use that?
Is there a site that has a comparison of the two?

 

[Maleficus]

A lot of people really like the Soundstorm and I know that it is a huge improvement over previous onboard sound chipsets but, I really doubt it will be able to compare to cards such as the audigy (which is a pos btw, down with creative!). I would sell the audigy though and buy a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or M-Audio Revolution.

 

[kingmike]

The Audigy is a nice card, the audigy 2 is better. Just install drivers,mixer, diagnostics and the audio hq.
I have not heard on board sound that is as good.

 

[JackHawksmoor]

The Nforce's sound is supposed to have lower CPU utilization than a Sound Blaster Live!, but I think the Audigy beats it. For sure the Audigy 2 does. It's still pretty amazing to me that someone makes onboard sound that beats a Live! (which I still use in one of my systems, and consider pretty new).

 

[sandorski]

Sound Storm is better than the Audigy, but not quite as good as a Audigy 2, for sound quality. CPU utilization deosn't really matter anymore, all current Audio cards/chips have very low utilization(at least for the upper end solutions) and with the cpus being used these days even 10% cpu utilization isn't what it used to be. Where the Audigy(1) beats Sound Storm is when using EAX in games.

Just make sure that the NForce sound on your motherboard has Sound Storm!

 

[Ionizer86]

Every board is different because the mobo makers implement the audio stuff, while nVidia only provides the APU. Mobo makers usually choose the Realtek 650 chip as a DAC, and they go from there. The sound is pretty good, but I still like my Santa Cruz better. Just make sure your chipset has an MCP-T. Soundstorm is the further step of having digital connectors (SPDIF and optical).
All you need is the MCP-T for analog.