IT7 onboard sound

[DukeChestnut]

whoever owns this board plz tell us how the onboard sound is. does it sound tin-canny? how does it stack up to an audigy? good enuff for gaming? mp3s?

 

[DukeChestnut]

bump

 

[cytoSiN]

The sound is good actually. Not as good as an audigy, but passable until you find an audigy for the price you want. Unfortunately tho, I am having problems with my onboard sound right now. Win2k is installed properly and everything runs fine, but the hardware sound isn't recognized. I've tried isntalling the drivers multiple times with no success, and I will be calling Abit in the morning for help. Anyway, when it's working, it sounds pretty good. Good luck.
-cyto

 

[gururu]

Cytosin,

I had this problem wit a friends BG7. The sound kicked in once we fixed the PCI to 33 MHz,
and disabled MIDI device.

 

[maverick24]

i just setup my abit it7 - the sound is actually very good for onboard sound
i've used it with quake, doom ,wolfenstein, etc... (mostly demos for benchmarking)
i have no problems setting it up with the drivers off the abit cd....

 

[maverick24]

oh yeah i forgot - i also run dvd movies on my system and it sounds pretty decent...

Edit: My Rig

Abit IT7
P4 2.26 GHz 533 FSB
2 x 80 GB Maxtor ATA 133 Drives
40x12x48 Lite On CDRW
16x Lite On DVD ROM
1 GB RAM:
- Samsung PC 2100 DDR 512 MB
- PNY PC 2100 DDR 512 MB
eVGA GForce4 Ti4200 128 DDR AGP Graphics
LianLi 65USB with Enermax 431W EG465P-VE (FCA) Power Supply

Unclocked for now - waiting to get some nice PC3000 DDR for cheap before I start overclocking.

 

[Bingo13]

Download the 3.22 drivers from Realtek. They have come a long way since the first March release.

 

[CoDerEd]

the sound is good... well average point. but i found that the driver is not included for all the connector to be shown. only three of the connector on the setup. it makes me gave up the line-in if i want to use it as the rear speaker. i tried both driver from the cd, from abit site and from www.avance.com site. did i do something wrong...???