ONboard sound question....

[CurtCold]

I'm using the onboard sound chip on my A7v266-e. When I transfer files from my Windows drive to my raid drive, or transfer large amounts of data, the sounds/music playing becomes slow and stuttered. I'm sure this is due to the fact that the CPU cannot push the 5.1 sound along with the data transfers.

My question is if I upgrade my CPU to say a 2600+, (fastest this board supports) would that effectively take care of the sound problem, or am I better off going with Audigy?

Thanks for the replies in advance.

 

[snidy1]

It should help

 

[squidman]

Audigy. Realtek CODEC that you have is ass. Get audigy - relieve your CPU. Also, are your music files on the same drive as your"transfers of large data"? If so - then another hard drive would help. I have my music on a separate drive, so it doesnt "stutter" or interupt (I have nForce APU (before had an M-Audio Pro sound card)

 

[CurtCold]

The onboard sound isn't ass btw. It's a C-media chip, and the sound is fine as far as that goes, it just has slowdowns. This happends when transferring files from my 30GB Maxtor 7200prm, to my Raid 0 drive, which is 2*60GB IBM 120's. I'm sure the faster CPU would help, I've vowed to upgrade to the 2600+, when the price is in the $100 range.

Thnx for the replies.

 

[Jeff7]

What OS? Try for new drivers here, and then check Windowsupdate for anything newer from Cmedia than what they've got on their site (Windowsupdate has the v643 WDM drivers, Cmedia has v639 posted )

Originally posted by: squidman
Audigy. Realtek CODEC that you have is ass. Get audigy - relieve your CPU. Also, are your music files on the same drive as your"transfers of large data"? If so - then another hard drive would help. I have my music on a separate drive, so it doesnt "stutter" or interupt (I have nForce APU (before had an M-Audio Pro sound card)

Which chip is it? My 8RDA+ has a Realek ALC-650 codec, and it seems to work just fine with the APU in the nForce2's southbridge.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Realtek ALC650 is just the codec, the sound processor is in the chipset.
You can't compare ALC650 directly to SB something, not fair.

 

[squidman]

Yes, standalone REALTEK is no good. In APU's case - the Realtec is just an amp/signal separator.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

If I were in your case, I'd go for a new cpu and audio card simple because that 1600+, while it is a good cpu, its going to need changing sometime in the near future depending on what kind of applications you use. I would get an Audigy or a Santa Cruz card, or even an Audigy 2 if you can spend the extra money. They will remove most of the cpu processing for audio going on right now so it hopefully won't stutter.

 

[Insidious]

I hope I'm not hijacking the thread here, but since we are (kind of) talking about it...

I just upgraded to a KT400 board with realtek onboard sound. Sound quality isn't really an isssue, but I'm using the onboard because it seemed simpler than
installing the SoundBlaster Live! (X-gamer) that was in the previous system.

Which of these two sound solutions is likely to use the least resources? (on-board or SBlive)

TIA

-Sid