Soundstorm on A7N8X Deluxe vs. Audigy Gamer

[meltdown75]

I searched and read through quite a bit of googling on this topic, but I would rather have an AT member's opinion on this...

I have a an Audigy Gamer PCI card that I have been using which was left over from my last system. However I am now questioning, after going from the plain A7N8X to the A7N8X Deluxe, whether or not I should ditch it in favour of the onboard audio. Is it true that the Soundstorm audio uses up less CPU cycles? Even a modest performance gain would be worth it and I would also have the benefit of better airflow in my system. Let me know what you think guys, thanks.

- Melt.

edit: btw sorry if its a repost but i tried to be specific to my situation.

 

[friedrice]

The Audigy is pretty good for gaming. I actually used to own an A7N8X Deluxe and a Audigy soundcard. I tested the two out, and I couldn't really notice a difference on my 5.1 Klipsch speakers. I did end up sticking with the soundstorm just because Audigy drivers kept doing weird stuff in games like Half-Life, Diablo II, Ghost Recon, and some other games. Seems like half the people who use Audigy have problems and other have never do. The Soundstorm will save you CPU cycles on things that use Dobly Digital, as I beleive it is the only sound card to have a hardware dobly digital decoder chip on it. I think the only time you'll use this is on some of the newer games, or in watching DVD movies.

Bottom Line, you can't go wrong either way. I personally liked the sound storm better because it was one less PCI card, and I had some weird sound problems on some games with Audigy.

 

[meltdown75]

hey, thanks man. that's enough for me to try out the soundstorm for a while. cheers :beer: