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Transferring Chips on M/B's

Gamingphreek

Gamingphreek

Lifer
With Soundstorm being taken away from us on the Nforce 4 :-( people are very dissapointed. I was wondering if there is ANY WAY, (i highly doubt it) that i person very skilled in soddering and what not could sodder the chip onboard. Again i highly doubt it as you would have to run traces to it, and then to the AC'97 and what not.

-Kevin
 
You answered your own question. I don't know what Soundstorm is, but if you're asking to add a whole new functionality to a m/b, then it'll be 10^10^10x easier to just build a card instead of soldering it on the mainboard.
 
Hmmm. "ANY WAY" he says....

Yes, there is a way! I don't know what it is, but I know it is possible. 😛
You would have to have access to the schematics of your mobo. You would likely have to build your own circuit to establish a communication protocol between the AC'97 system and the Soundstorm chip. You would likely have to re-write your BIOS. It is unlikely that you would find a place to solder the solution directly to the mobo, so a seperate card would definitely be involved.

Who knows... if there are enough people with the right resources and motivation, a conversion kit may show up on the market!
 
Originally posted by: BEL6772
Hmmm. "ANY WAY" he says....

Yes, there is a way! I don't know what it is, but I know it is possible. 😛
You would have to have access to the schematics of your mobo. You would likely have to build your own circuit to establish a communication protocol between the AC'97 system and the Soundstorm chip. You would likely have to re-write your BIOS. It is unlikely that you would find a place to solder the solution directly to the mobo, so a seperate card would definitely be involved.

Who knows... if there are enough people with the right resources and motivation, a conversion kit may show up on the market!
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Why take all the efforts? Its more feasible buying something like an AUdigy-2 rather than modding the motherboard.
 
Originally posted by: BEL6772
Hmmm. "ANY WAY" he says....

Yes, there is a way! I don't know what it is, but I know it is possible. 😛
You would have to have access to the schematics of your mobo. You would likely have to build your own circuit to establish a communication protocol between the AC'97 system and the Soundstorm chip. You would likely have to re-write your BIOS. It is unlikely that you would find a place to solder the solution directly to the mobo, so a seperate card would definitely be involved.

Who knows... if there are enough people with the right resources and motivation, a conversion kit may show up on the market!
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Thats exactly what i was talking about.

Also thermalpaste... an Audigy 2 cannot do some of the things that the SS can do, SS is the ONLY consumer level soundcard that supports real time dolby digital encoding.

-Kevin
 
The SoundStorm is integrated into the Nforce2 southbridge. The Nforce3/4 don't use southbridges in the same manner. Game, set, match. Winner nVidia.
 
soundstorm may be able to do things the audigy cannot, but it is still an inferior method of sound reproduction, it is old and outdated *(whilst i must admit i still love it 🙂) anyways, if your looking for a quick cheap fix, the chaintech av-710 is a 25 dollar card from newegg, that comes with a optical cable, which itself is usually around 20 bux, as well as an amazing software package, and it has sound at least equivalent to audigy 2, its based off the via envy sound chip. and it would be next to impossible to do this, as you would need to create traces on the motherboard, as well as program the bios to understand that it is actually there and to use it.
 
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Originally posted by: BEL6772
Hmmm. "ANY WAY" he says....

Yes, there is a way! I don't know what it is, but I know it is possible. 😛
You would have to have access to the schematics of your mobo. You would likely have to build your own circuit to establish a communication protocol between the AC'97 system and the Soundstorm chip. You would likely have to re-write your BIOS. It is unlikely that you would find a place to solder the solution directly to the mobo, so a seperate card would definitely be involved.

Who knows... if there are enough people with the right resources and motivation, a conversion kit may show up on the market!
Click to expand...

Thats exactly what i was talking about.

Also thermalpaste... an Audigy 2 cannot do some of the things that the SS can do, SS is the ONLY consumer level soundcard that supports real time dolby digital encoding.

-Kevin
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true, I didn't deny that, but yeah you canot take out an ac97 and plonk in an SS without substantial modding.....thats why I suggested something like an audigy-2
 
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