Firewall and Audio

[Roper]

RATS - wrong forum. Sorry for the spam



Hi All,

1st post...

After a 7 year dry spell of no new computer for myself (exclusively) I decided to go all out and get the fanciest motherboard I could find. I was wondering:

1) I read somewhere that the nForce4 chipset came with an integrated hardware firewall. But since I didn't see any mention of this in the manual I guess MSI left it out. Is that right? I'd feel really dumb if I found out years down the line I had a feature I never used!

2) What are people's experiences using the microphone jack? I have an old, cheap, unpowered mike that works OK with my old computer. But recordings made on the K8N in MS "Sound Recorder" are so faint you can't really hear them. I've gone into the Creative Mixer and maxed the mic recording levels, but it dosn't do much. I've also toggled the "do not monitor" option, but that dosn't help either (does anyone know what this does, BTW?)

 

[crazyeddie]

With regard to the microphone, you might look for a recording setting for the microphone that says"+20db gain" or something like that. A lot of audio drivers have a special microphone preamp setting that boosts the input level on weak microphones.

If your sound drivers don't offer that setting, you might consider treating yourself to a new microphone for $5 or $10.

The Nvidia firewall feature I'll have to let somebody else describe...