That's a pretty massive hit - my nForce2 SoundStorm barely makes any
difference to the frame rate in N2003 compared with having sound turned off
completely. 1-2fps.
That's a pretty massive hit - my nForce2 SoundStorm barely makes any
difference to the frame rate in N2003 compared with having sound turned off
completely. 1-2fps.
Hi Steve,
What I actually meant was:
With 2ZS and 0/24 sounds, fps = 70/64
With onboard sound, fps = 70/54
So they both take an fps hit, but the onboard is way bigger than the Audigy.
Regards
Seems it's true though from what I've just read in a couple of forums - the
new nVidia sound chips are pretty severe on the CPU compared to the
SoundStorm. It really is baffling why they got rid of such a great chip in
the new nForces.
> I wish there was a 939 board out there with onboard 5.1 sound that had no
> worse a hit than a 2ZS. Maybe there is and I just don't know about it ;)
thanks for going through the trouble of providing some "hard numbers"
on this issue. It's good to know that the 70 Euros for the 2ZS weren't
wasted after all ;-)
It's probably overkill as I still have only two speakers connected to
that card which features a "slot ful of holes" to connect fancy stuff
to...
cheers, uwe
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