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Epox 8RDA+ here
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you'll make Insane3d happy.
btw, Insane3d could you enlighten the HOT DEAL folks about Epox's Nforce2 boards.
hot deal thread on Epox's NForce2 8RDA+
btw, Insane3d could you enlighten the HOT DEAL folks about Epox's Nforce2 boards.
hot deal thread on Epox's NForce2 8RDA+
Although I love the idea of Serial ATA and have seen some sweet benchmarks, I have not seen any dual channel SATA-R setup. I am probably going to go with a PCI SATA Raid controller myself, since serial drives cannot share a cable. I may by an N-force board with out RAID and implement RAID later.
I just saw over at the inquirer that they have an 8RDA+ review but I'm still confused about the audio.
He goes on to say that;
"For audio, it uses the well known, best integrated so far Nvidia APU -- the Application Processing Unit, and it has finally introduced the well kept brand Sound Storm, that some board manufacturers will use. It has 192 2D and 64 3d sounds capable Dolby digital surround and we can say that this is a very nice sound solution integrated on a motherboard."
But then goes on to say that;
"Different manufacturers will decide which features to include on their boards, particularly so in the case of the South Bridge features." and
"The 8RDA+ uses the Nvidia MCP-T South Bridge. Even though it's an MCP-T board it uses only the Nvidia LAN card and AC 97 sound"
Am I to understand that even though a board is MCP-T it will only use AC97 sound and not the soundstorm ???
He goes on to say that;
"For audio, it uses the well known, best integrated so far Nvidia APU -- the Application Processing Unit, and it has finally introduced the well kept brand Sound Storm, that some board manufacturers will use. It has 192 2D and 64 3d sounds capable Dolby digital surround and we can say that this is a very nice sound solution integrated on a motherboard."
But then goes on to say that;
"Different manufacturers will decide which features to include on their boards, particularly so in the case of the South Bridge features." and
"The 8RDA+ uses the Nvidia MCP-T South Bridge. Even though it's an MCP-T board it uses only the Nvidia LAN card and AC 97 sound"
Am I to understand that even though a board is MCP-T it will only use AC97 sound and not the soundstorm ???
>The AC97 is just an interface between the codec and the actual nVidia SoundStorm solution.
Are you telling me that SoundStorm will feed through the AC97.... I find that very hard to believe.
This is what I got from Fudo who wrote the article.
"Nvidia said that every motherboard that will have Sound Storm features will have Sound storm brand in name and that should eliminate confusion. hope it helps"
P.S. First part is Nforce 2 ingeneral and second is specific retal product
Fudo
>That would be odd that EPoX would only provide an AC97 solution....... whats the deal?
This is really bizzare because how can you feed the Soundstorm through AC97 and ontop of that through an Optical connection.
On the Asus board you'll find something like this.
Realtek® ALC650 6CH w/built in HP amplifier
Integrated APU (Audio Processor Unit, Deluxe Model)
SoundStorm? / Dolby® Digital (AC-3) Encoder (Deluxe Model)
On the Epox Site you'll also find that it has the Realtek ALC650E 6-channel full-duplex integrated sound.
Now the Question is. How can an 8RDA+ board with the MCP-T southbridge pop up with AC97 sound and not the Realtek ALC650E. That's what I'd like to know.
"Different manufacturers will decide which features to include on their boards, particularly so in the case of the South Bridge features."
If it's product specific how do you know you'll be buying an MCP-T with Realtek ALC650E or AC97. Are they making some 8RDA+'s with Realtek ALC650E and some with AC97 ???
Weird.
Are you telling me that SoundStorm will feed through the AC97.... I find that very hard to believe.
This is what I got from Fudo who wrote the article.
"Nvidia said that every motherboard that will have Sound Storm features will have Sound storm brand in name and that should eliminate confusion. hope it helps"
P.S. First part is Nforce 2 ingeneral and second is specific retal product
Fudo
>That would be odd that EPoX would only provide an AC97 solution....... whats the deal?
This is really bizzare because how can you feed the Soundstorm through AC97 and ontop of that through an Optical connection.
On the Asus board you'll find something like this.
Realtek® ALC650 6CH w/built in HP amplifier
Integrated APU (Audio Processor Unit, Deluxe Model)
SoundStorm? / Dolby® Digital (AC-3) Encoder (Deluxe Model)
On the Epox Site you'll also find that it has the Realtek ALC650E 6-channel full-duplex integrated sound.
Now the Question is. How can an 8RDA+ board with the MCP-T southbridge pop up with AC97 sound and not the Realtek ALC650E. That's what I'd like to know.
"Different manufacturers will decide which features to include on their boards, particularly so in the case of the South Bridge features."
If it's product specific how do you know you'll be buying an MCP-T with Realtek ALC650E or AC97. Are they making some 8RDA+'s with Realtek ALC650E and some with AC97 ???
Weird.
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