Better sound on motherboards?

[bookman]

How difficult is it for motherboard manufacturer to use a better sound chip like the CMI8768+ to provide for Dolby Digital Live, instead of their current sound chips, which arent very good? Are any upcoming motherboards using this sound chip? And too bad Soundstorm died.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Some Asus boards and MSI's K8N Neo4 Platinum and K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (to my knowledge) have an onboard Creative Soundblaster Live!

It's adequate, for onboard sound.

 

[bookman]

Unfortunately, Creative doesnt do Dolby Digital Live, so you wont get 5.1 channels for games. The CMI8768+ sound chip lets you play games in 5.1 channels, similar to Soundstorm.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: bookman
Unfortunately, Creative doesnt do Dolby Digital Live, so you wont get 5.1 channels for games. The CMI8768+ sound chip lets you play games in 5.1 channels, similar to Soundstorm.

I dunno what you're talking about then. Maybe some more info on that sound chip so I can take a look around?

 

[Pathogens]

I have a Medion Composer 5100 puter sporting the CM19880L, 8ch

 

[bookman]

That chip is used as the core for this sound card
http://www.bluegears.com/soundcard_xmystique.html
Why cant a motherboard manufacturer incorporate it for onboard sound, and have a solution similar to the very cool Soundstorm solution?

 

[bookman]

Bump

 

[Heckler 5th]

few if any will because of the huge licensing fees dolby charges for certified DD5.1. the turtle beach montego also sports a DDL encoder but i'm not sure if it uses the same chip as the x-mystique... probably does. but, for now, the SB Live chip used on a select few MSI and ASUS boards are the best onboard solution you can currently find, other than soundstorm.

 

[bookman]

Its the same chip on both, but the Montego is having an implementation issue whereby the sound lags. Turtle Beach is working on this issue. The X-Mystique doesnt have this problem.

 

[Heckler 5th]

actually, i tried an x-m for about a week before rmaing it. it had this problem but it really wasn't so bad. the first OS action to require a sound would sometmes not trip the encoder to catch the first bit of the sound. it was minor that's not why i sent it back. i sent it out b/c it didn't play nice with a mic. had tons of config issues trying to use it in ventrilo. plus, the zalman 5.1 headphones were kinda crappy so i'm back to two-channel stereo :brokenheart: