nForce 2 Sound vs Audigy

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=805f7f9803c6bfda9282b30280184cd6&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

I love your wisdom Doug. AD p.s The netcode for Toca RD is kick arse too.

In article <dtR7a.9176$Lq.680942@stones>, "Doug Ellison" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>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=805f7f9803c6bfda9282b30280184cd6&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 :(

On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:30:05 GMT, [email hidden] (Obake) wrote:

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>In article <dtR7a.9176$Lq.680942@stones>, "Doug Ellison" <[email hidden]> wrote: >>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=805f7f9803c6bfda9282b30280184cd6&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")

correct me if i'm wrong, but if you have a DD reciever, with I presume a digitalI/O why would you need DDencoding on the mobo? I ask because I'm building a HT pc soon, and was going to get an M-audio soundcard because their spdif is said to be very stable. sudesh "ssrat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:30:05 GMT, [email hidden] (Obake) wrote: > > >In article <dtR7a.9176$Lq.680942@stones>, "Doug Ellison"<[email hidden]> wrote: > >>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=805f7f9803c6bfda9282b30280184cd6&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 morekick

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> >>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 connectedto my

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> >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") >

In article <[email hidden]>, "sudesh Bhagwandin" <[email hidden]> wrote: >correct me if i'm wrong, but if you have a DD reciever, with I presume a >digitalI/O why would you need DDencoding on the mobo? 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 can only get GPL out of two speakers with my Nforce2. Anyone else have better success? It is configured correctly because i get sound out of all 4 of my speakers in every other program. "Obake" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3e608732$0$9534$[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>, "sudesh Bhagwandin"<[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >correct me if i'm wrong, but if you have a DD reciever, with I presume a > >digitalI/O why would you need DDencoding on the mobo? > > 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 thesegames > into DD5.1 and send the information for my receiver. other soundcardswith > 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, butits > pre-recorded audio, not real-time like in games.

In article <Dw68a.127618$[email hidden]>, "Brian Bowles" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I can only get GPL out of two speakers with my Nforce2. Anyone else have >better success? It is configured correctly because i get sound out of all 4 >of my speakers in every other program. 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).

Same with me. Everything else uses my 5.1 speakers except GPL. I just removed my Audigy to try out the nForce2 sound. With the Audigy I got sound in GPL through all speakers, but that may have been because the 5700 receiver was then set to emulate 5.1. I now have the nForce2 sound set to decode to 5.1 so now if there is only a stereo signal, I guess it will only go through the 2 speakers. 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 "Brian Bowles" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Dw68a.127618$[email hidden]... > I can only get GPL out of two speakers with my Nforce2. Anyone else have > better success? It is configured correctly because i get sound out of all4 > of my speakers in every other program. > "Obake" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3e608732$0$9534$[email hidden]... > > In article <[email hidden]>, "sudesh Bhagwandin" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >correct me if i'm wrong, but if you have a DD reciever, with I presumea

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> > >digitalI/O why would you need DDencoding on the mobo? > > > > 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. > > > -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----