Audigy vs Audigy 2?

[Deleted member 4644]

Audigy vs Audigy 2? Also, it worth using one of these boards to save on CPU overhead vs NF3 onboard sound? I heard that it is sometimes a good idea to run without any PCI cards to maximize overclocking and I don't care about sound THAT much.

PS, I currently own the Aud 1 card

 

[Gamingphreek]

Audigy 2 is a fairly large step up from Audigy 1.

As for emptying PCI SLots that is garbage and unproven.

I would definately use a PCI soundcard compared to onboard sound with the exception of Soundstorm as that offloads all Audio to the APU so as a result it has the lowest CPU Utilization out there.

-Kevin

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I have a DFI Lan Party NF3 chipset..

does that have soundstorm?

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Soundstorm doesn't come on Nforce 3...

 

[footbal07]

no they did not put soundstorm on the nf3 boards.

 

[LED]

Pop in the Audigy as it'll tax the CPU less and give you a Firewire Port (if you don't have already have 1)

 

[Gooberlx2]

So which boards do have soundstorm? I noticed the chaintech nforce4 mobo says "nvidia 7.1 channel audio"....did they bring it back. (actually, I always wondered why they scrapped it on the nforce3s)

My bigger issue would be which setup (onboard audio or PCI) is going reduce noise...or are they going to be about the same? I'm gonna start building a new system, I think, and will probably try to set it up as a HTPC (is that the correct acronym?). My laptop, for instance, has some serious noise issues when hooked up into my receiver.

 

[mircea]

Only NF2 chipsets have SoundStorm.
All onboard sounds have noise problems, because it's affected by the power runing trough the mob.
The Audigy 2 is much better than Audigy (I owned both).