Dual Core CPU and onboard sound

[SKoprowski]

Will having a dual core processor improve the performance of using software based sound typically found on motherboards (such as Realtek 850 chip)? If not, I wonder if drivers could be written to take advantage of it. I would assume that would make the cheap motherboard sound very competitive (at least in framerate impact) to a standalone soundcard.

Scott

 

[letdown427]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=1716798

my app on page four will do that for you. Basically, it'll assign all windows stuff to core one, then you can launch your game on core 2 all by itself. Give it a try. You probably won't trust it and think it's a virus, but one person has tried it so far without problems lol

If nothing else, please just try it and do some benchmarking! It's kind of in the learning stage at the mo' as to whether it was even worth making it at all! It was a learning xperience though, and I enjoyed it, so no loss.

 

[alfa147x]

i never recomend on board sound

 

[StrangerGuy]

My good old Athlon XP rig with onboard sound runs games just as fast as with a SB Live card...Don't think you should be concerned with the processing overhead of onboard sound with a X2 3800+.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
My good old Athlon XP rig with onboard sound runs games just as fast as with a SB Live card...Don't think you should be concerned with the processing overhead of onboard sound with a X2 3800+.

Well to be fair an SB Live has a pretty old DSP and uses up almost as much CPU time as onboard audio. That aside, I usually prefer onboard audio to any creative crap.

 

[openwheelformula1]

Creative's cards are good for lowering cpu's load during gaming. Otherwise there are better solutions for pure sound quality such as X-mystique. Onboard's spdif digital out is perfect if you have high end hometheater system.