Question regarding SB Live! 5.1 vs. SB Audigy

[Bagheera]

Hi everyone.

I have a question regarding the Dolby Digital decoding of SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 and SoundBlaster Audigy.

According to 3DnHardware.com, SB Audigy's "Dolby Digital decoding is handled by the drivers but not in hardware as there will be a CPU performance hit when enabling Dolby Digital decode"

Is that true? One of the main reason I bought the SB Live! 5.1 was because it boasted hardware Dolby Digital decoding. Or is it like Audigy?

 

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Dont mean to bash this thread but i cant get into this site? are you sure the site is right?

 

[Bagheera]

Oh, sorry. I'll post the link to the review article:

http://www.3dhardware.net/reviews/cl_audigy/