Lots of nice comments on the side of nForce 2's onboard sound here
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
hreadid=200537
Hope it helps some people realise that onboard sound doesnt mean it's
totally arse. It is in MOST cases - but in the nForce 2 case -it's more kick
arse
Doug
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p.s The netcode for Toca RD is kick arse too.
>Lots of nice comments on the side of nForce 2's onboard sound here
>http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=805f7f9803c6bfda9282b302801...
>hreadid=200537
>Hope it helps some people realise that onboard sound doesnt mean it's
>totally arse. It is in MOST cases - but in the nForce 2 case -it's more kick
>arse
>Doug
>>Lots of nice comments on the side of nForce 2's onboard sound here
>>http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=805f7f9803c6bfda9282b302801...
>>hreadid=200537
>>Hope it helps some people realise that onboard sound doesnt mean it's
>>totally arse. It is in MOST cases - but in the nForce 2 case -it's more kick
>>arse
>>Doug
>this is my MAIN reason for going AMD for my next system (due <1month :)). the
>nForce2 soundstorm has dolby digital ENCODING. will kick ass connected to my
>DD reciever. there are no mobo's that have DD encoding for intel :(
sudesh
> >>Lots of people have been asking about on board sound
> >>Lots of nice comments on the side of nForce 2's onboard sound here
>>http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=805f7f9803c6bfda9282b302801...
&t
> >>hreadid=200537
> >>Hope it helps some people realise that onboard sound doesnt mean it's
> >>totally arse. It is in MOST cases - but in the nForce 2 case -it's more
kick
> >>arse
> >>Doug
> >this is my MAIN reason for going AMD for my next system (due <1month :)).
the
> >nForce2 soundstorm has dolby digital ENCODING. will kick ass connected
to my
> >DD reciever. there are no mobo's that have DD encoding for intel :(
> Throw in the fact that they have said that upgrading will be
> (generally) painless with the main differencess needed being that for
> those going 64bit (new boards)
> AMD also announced that they are now going to be 200fsb officialy,
> Also a review of the latest MSI board at www.hardocp.com shows a new
> NForce driver that cuts cpu overhead even more (no word on when it
> goes "public")
its because i've got a DD receiver that i want a soundcard with dolby
encoding. does that make sense? :)
games are not encoded with DD5.1, they're Direct Sound, A3D, EAX or whatever
is the flavour of the month. the nForce soundforce will encode these games
into DD5.1 and send the information for my receiver. other soundcards with
digital out will only be sending 2channel audio, so the best it can do is
dolby surround sound. unless its a DVD, then it will output DD5.1, but its
pre-recorded audio, not real-time like in games.
> its because i've got a DD receiver that i want a soundcard with dolby
> encoding. does that make sense? :)
> games are not encoded with DD5.1, they're Direct Sound, A3D, EAX or
whatever
> is the flavour of the month. the nForce soundforce will encode these
games
> into DD5.1 and send the information for my receiver. other soundcards
with
> digital out will only be sending 2channel audio, so the best it can do is
> dolby surround sound. unless its a DVD, then it will output DD5.1, but
its
> pre-recorded audio, not real-time like in games.
i'll let you know when i get the computer (hopefully) next week :)
have you enabled 'create center channel', 'rear speaker phase', etc in nForce
conrol panel? i think you need them enabled if the source is only 2 channels
(e.g. mp3's and some games).
I haven't decided yet if I'm going to keep the Audigy out permanently yet.
Certainly the nForce gets rid of the crackling and distorting problems I had
in some games, e.g. NR2002, but I don't feel that the nForce has the same
depth or quality sound as the Audigy.
Iain
> > its because i've got a DD receiver that i want a soundcard with dolby
> > encoding. does that make sense? :)
> > games are not encoded with DD5.1, they're Direct Sound, A3D, EAX or
> whatever
> > is the flavour of the month. the nForce soundforce will encode these
> games
> > into DD5.1 and send the information for my receiver. other soundcards
> with
> > digital out will only be sending 2channel audio, so the best it can do
is
> > dolby surround sound. unless its a DVD, then it will output DD5.1, but
> its
> > pre-recorded audio, not real-time like in games.
