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SoundStorm is dead and is never coming back **Updated 3/3**

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I just don't get why people want soundstorm.

Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Windows beeps?

Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound low quality MP3, Ogg, WMA, etc...(basically 2-channel music)?

No bit perfect playback.

What am I missing?
 
gaming
DVD playback
CD playback

Just because you might underutilize your PC audio subsystem doesn't mean the rest of the world does.
 
Originally posted by: Matthias99
However, there's no other product for these audiophiles to use. SoundStorm was the only consumer audio chipset that could encode Dolby Digital 5.1 and send it out over optical/coax -- other chipsets can pass through DD5.1 streams from DVDs (or other 5.1 media sources), but cannot encode them. They could have easily charged a premium for their product as a standalone board and still sold quite a few of them. It would have been a niche product, certainly -- but they would have held 100% of that niche market.
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Audiophiles would never consider atrocious PC sound for a stereo music or home theater solution anyway =).
 
Originally posted by: jm0ris0n
Muhahahaha ! Beautiful title !
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Agreed.

I don't quite understand the soundstorm lovers -- just go buy a dedicated card and be on your merry way.

To all of you that used the POS analog connections on soundstorm nforce boards, go get yourself a sound card. My terratec card blows the onboard sound i have on my a7n8xe-deluxe away.
 
Darien, we don't want to go buy a dedicated card. We can't even buy one, AFAIK, that does all that Soundstorm does. And if some card did do all of it, it would cost a pretty penny. NV gave me those features for just a few $$$.

Creative Labs can go die in a fire, too. I'll buy M-Audio before I buy an Audigy.
 
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This does not mean that future NVIDIA chipsets will not feature more advanced audio functionality than what is currently available
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Who cares about "the future" ??? Look at their crappy AC97 RIGHT NOW....yeah..."in the future"....whatever....

(Now we can all start posting what great things we all might get "...in the future" 🙂 )

[I always love how companies' PR turns bad things that way so they sound good....eg. the *absence* of something morphs into some exciting, future upcoming features....]

Edit:
Btw. for low/mid-end i would've been satisfied with a CMEDIA 8738 h/w onboard - which would've increased the mobo cost (eg. NF4) an approx. $5 - $10 (IMHO)......always good to know that SOME companies really "know" where to save money and where not. (Sarcasm btw 🙂 )


 
What you people who say just buy another sound card fail to realize is this:

1. We are happy with Soundstorm and dont feel like it

2. We do not want to shell out the money

Now on the HW side of things... NOTHING comes anywhere near the CPU utilization Soundstorm offered.. it is EXTREMELY low. Also just because it doesn't use the nifty features doesn't mean the Soundstorm APU isn't doing anything, thats WHY we get such low CPU utilization.

Also, i agree 100% with Matthias.... think about it able to encode REAL TIME in Dolby Digital. Nothing else can do that, Nvidia had complete control, dominance!

Personally i doesn't matter that it isn't onboard, so much that it is not around anymore. I mean i garauntee that if they came out with a PCI(-E) soundcard version of SOundstorm i would be one of the 1st ones to buy it.

*Sigh* i definately have to get a DD receiver and what not, that would be sooooo awesome!!

-Kevin
 
Originally posted by: b3b0p
I just don't get why people want soundstorm.

Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Windows beeps?

Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound low quality MP3, Ogg, WMA, etc...(basically 2-channel music)?

No bit perfect playback.

What am I missing?
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What you're missing is that SoundStorm could transcode DirectSound3d and EAX into DD5.1, turning a SoundStorm-equipped PC into the high-end equivelant of an Xbox. Nothing, and I mean nothing beats playing BF:Vietnam in 5.1 surround on an HDTV.

The SoundStorm issue is becoming less problematic though, and I was one of the biggest SoundStorm > Audigy proponents. DVD-Audio has ensured that a majority of the surround receivers on the market will come with 6 channel analog input (It's a requirement for DVD-Audio compatability).
 
Originally posted by: Megatomic
Why do you all who sold out to Creative Labs even care about this?
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Let's think of it this way. Did NF3 have SoundStorm when it came out? Nope. Does NF4 have it? Nope. Is NE1 looking to buy a high end system going to buy an NF2 board with SoundStorm? Nope. Is NF2 "future driven", i.e. a platform that is currently supporting the latest chips? Nope.

It's gone, it's not coming back. Move on!!!!!! We care b/c we're trying to get help for the people still hung up on SoundStorm. There's nothing you can do about it so stop whining and complaining. We've had NF3 and NF4 come through with no SoundStorm. THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR...GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I'll get over it by voting with my money. I won't be buying NF4, I already bypassed NF3 waiting for SS.

I'm looking into K8T890 right now. It doesn't offer SS either but no Via ever did. I can't remember the last feature that Via offered that the hardware community really liked that they then pulled despite public sentiment. If I'm forgetting something please remind me.
 
I understand Sounstorm was great, however, it's not going to come back. Buying a VIA or SIS chipset or boycotting AMD completely and getting an Intel chipset with Azalia will not make nVidia bring it back, and it will certainly not make those other companies put soundstorm on their boards. Yeah, nVidia may have pissed off 1% of their chipset buyers so badly that they won't buy the product, but i kind of doubt it will do much, considering the good reception of nForce3. In fact, with the rich feature set of the nForce4, i imagine they will lure many people away from the VIA and SIS camps, as well. So be pissed if you want, but for the 99% of us who don't think the difference between MP3 and CD music is that big of a deal, we'll be quite happy with our fantastic motherboards that will last us for a loooong time.
 
Originally posted by: OMGoddess
Why the hell didnt' they just put the orginal soundstorm in there?
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Because it wasn't making money. There are so many of you here that seem to have such a hard time understanding that all these companies (even the "underdogs") are here for one thing only, to make money. They couldn't care less about what people with nothing better to do with their lives than bitch and moan and argue over hardware likes it's a religion think of their company. You don't make these companies money, especially not when half or more of you are buying the bargain basement product and OC'ing the crap out of it. 20 people whining on a messageboard is not a market, and you might as well not exist as far as these companies go.
 
I just love being told that my opinion doesn't count and that I should just shut up and move on.

Oh wait, I forgot. I should buy myself some vaseline and prepare to bend over, too, right? I mean, if one of my favorite vendors tells me to ah heck off I should just happily comply, right?
 
Bah, maybe this will force my hand into buying myself one of THESE. I've been looking at it for a while for my wife's computer. Perhaps she'll get my NF2 and I can get an NF4 and this M-Audio.
 
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