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Bought new board - Intel D975X

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jlbenedict

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According to the Anandtech review of the "Bad Axe" D975X motherboard, the onboard audio has the highest CPU utilization of the bunch of boards tested, including a Gigabyte board, with onboard SB Live 24-Bit.

I am not a hardcore gamer, but I do occasionally load up a game and play every once in a while (but not Quake 4, Doom III, HL2).

Do I stick with the onboard Sigmatel STAC9221D or do I go ahead and use my add in board, the Sound Blaster Live 24-Bit pci based card??

I'll be running a Cedar Mill, 651 (3.4 GHz), so I'm sure onboard shouldn't burden the cpu too much for my tasks, or is there a real big significant difference between the onboard and my SB Live 24??

 
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
According to the Anandtech review of the "Bad Axe" D975X motherboard, the onboard audio has the highest CPU utilization of the bunch of boards tested, including a Gigabyte board, with onboard SB Live 24-Bit.

I am not a hardcore gamer, but I do occasionally load up a game and play every once in a while (but not Quake 4, Doom III, HL2).

Do I stick with the onboard Sigmatel STAC9221D or do I go ahead and use my add in board, the Sound Blaster Live 24-Bit pci based card??

I'll be running a Cedar Mill, 651 (3.4 GHz), so I'm sure onboard shouldn't burden the cpu too much for my tasks, or is there a real big significant difference between the onboard and my SB Live 24??
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Just curious, what did the article say about cpu utilization? Did it give percentages? (Do you have the URL for the article still?)

Edit: Found it at http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2681&p=12.

It looks like you get about 10% more frames with the SB X-Fi, so only you can determine if that's worth the $100 - $200 the SB X-Fi costs. If sound is important to you, I'd say go for it; sound is less important to me, and I typically use the simplest sound option, so it isn't a big deal here. Other opinions will vary.
 
I re-read the article again this morning.
The only thing that seems to be missing is 3d hardware audio..
Since I'm a light gamer, I probably will not miss too much or notice any difference..
I may try my SB Live 24-bit.. if it installs easy, without any driver issues, or PCI/IRQ conflicts, I'll leave it in.
 
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