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Weird PCIE card...

Had to LOL at this comment from the reviews section..
"Pros: Buy this if you have a pci-e so and you want to fill every single slot on your motherboard thinking your motherboard likes being filled."
 
Stuff like this has been around for a long long time. Think soundblasters. I assume the way they work is simple - they provide a high frequency path to ground and hopeful they provide some transistor capacity to provide power during transient spikes in demand. Since motherboard audio is usually horrible, simple power supply buffering tricks like this can work so don't laugh it off.
 
zephyrprime said:
Stuff like this has been around for a long long time. Think soundblasters. I assume the way they work is simple - they provide a high frequency path to ground and hopeful they provide some transistor capacity to provide power during transient spikes in demand. Since motherboard audio is usually horrible, simple power supply buffering tricks like this can work so don't laugh it off.
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We've found their audience ladies and gentlemen 😉
 
zephyrprime said:
Stuff like this has been around for a long long time. Think soundblasters. I assume the way they work is simple - they provide a high frequency path to ground and hopeful they provide some transistor capacity to provide power during transient spikes in demand. Since motherboard audio is usually horrible, simple power supply buffering tricks like this can work so don't laugh it off.
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If you care about the audio quality and you don't have it being sent digitally straight to the amp you are doing it wrong.
 
Any of you remember that high dollar nic that was supposed to reduce ping or something like that? The claims they made were questionable, but not outside the realm of possibility. It was one of those things to get if you were rich, and building the "ultimate" gaming rig.
 
Yup!

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zephyrprime said:
Stuff like this has been around for a long long time. Think soundblasters. I assume the way they work is simple - they provide a [/b]high frequency path to ground and hopeful they provide some transistor capacity to provide power during transient spikes in demand. Since motherboard audio is usually horrible, simple power supply buffering tricks like this can work so don't laugh it off.
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What? Please enlighten me. Even on a switching PSU, you're switching the high side, not ground. Ground is ground, except when there's noise in it (generally always is as you can't completely eliminate it) coming from the AC-DC conversion (crap in = crap out at higher frequency).


mmntech said:
Lol. It's just six caps soldered to a PCB.
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Look closer. There are more than 6 caps on there. There are smaller SMT caps. Even then, they're too big for the intended application of removing digital noise (cap size and filter frequency are inversely proportional).

All this is coming from a dumb engineer that designs hardware, so what do I know... 😀
 
poofyhairguy said:
If you care about the audio quality and you don't have it being sent digitally straight to the amp you are doing it wrong.
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So this is what I've been doing wrong. I've always sent the digital signal to the DAC, but I guess if it gets really loud 1's and 0's it must convert more accurately.
 
With sound cards the catch can be no encoding software to send the best version of the digital data to an external dac. I went through this several times building HTPCs, even the super cheap onboard hardware is capable of sending whatever digital stream, no license for the Dolby Theater or whatever encoder and you can't do it.

HDMI encoded and pass thru show up in lower end products, but not multichannel DTS via Toslink (optical S/Pdif as supported by my old but high end AVR).

Regards network cards, some are better than others. Some hardware is totally dumb relying on the cpu to push bits and some are smart and just need a pointer to the data or do tricks to lower latency. Some may have very well done up to date software drivers and some may use generic drivers that support some legacy mode with the hardware. Until you have more than one system side by side, differences may not be obvious due to normal funky variations in speed and ping, but side by side one may be clearly better.
 
LOL this is hilarious.

Does it even do anything or is it literally just a bunch of random caps and stuff just to make people think it does?
 
Is there any reason the PCB is so fucking huge? Is it just an epeen thing or is it meant to absorb the lizard man mind rays?
 
Red Squirrel said:
LOL this is hilarious.

Does it even do anything or is it literally just a bunch of random caps and stuff just to make people think it does?
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looks like it's just filter caps. if your power supply, motherboard or video card is that bad you have bigger issues that this card wont fix.
 
zephyrprime said:
Stuff like this has been around for a long long time. Think soundblasters. I assume the way they work is simple - they provide a high frequency path to ground and hopeful they provide some transistor capacity to provide power during transient spikes in demand. Since motherboard audio is usually horrible, simple power supply buffering tricks like this can work so don't laugh it off.
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wat?



lol i see 6 surface mount electrolytics and 6 1206 ceramic caps - anyone got a price for this card?
 
poofyhairguy said:
Yup!

killer2100withlogo3.png
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Lol. I remember when those things first came out, and the people who bought them trying to justify their purchase.

Me: You know that ping times are dependent on your ISP's connection right?
Them: But but, well, it off loads networking from the CPU too!!
Me: What's that going to do? Give you an extra half frame per second?

That whole off loading thing might have been true back in the old days of single core processors. Not so much today. Even back then, improvements were marginal at best.
 
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