Which card better or equal to..

[Tyranos]

The abit NF7-S soundstorm onchip sound? This little bastich of a southbridge doesn't want to stop acting up until I drop the fsb down to around 133mhz. I have a heatsink on it and it still freaks out. I'd like to get a sound card with the same or greater performance, with spdif out, and good relative price. Suggestions?

[Damian]

Audigy 2? Only about $75.

[Flewdefur]

man that sucks about your sounstorm, i was getting distortion whenever i went above 133 as well, so i ordered a cheap little vantac iceberq chipset cooler for 10bucks and its been running beautifully at 200fsb.

[emericanchaos]

you can get an OEM audigy 2 for around $75-80. if you want to go a step up the M-audio revolution isn't alot more and these 2 cards are top of the line.

a reg audigy is like $60 and a better bang-for-the-buck would be the turtle beach santa cruz.

[zachj]

While I know this is a bit of a thread-jack, it looks like the thread is basically over, and it does apply a little bit . . .

Does anyone know what's in the Biostar M7NCG? I absolutely can't figure it out. It uses NVIDIA drivers and Biostar's site says the following:

"INTEGRATED AUDIO

NVIDIA APU(Audio Processor Unit) Dolby® Digital Encoder + Realtek ALC650 6-Channel AC'97 CODEC"

The Realtek makes me think it's not, but it comes with all the goodies to make me think it's Soundstorm . . .

Any thoughts?

Z

[Aslan]

It has the MCP-T southbridge, so it has Soundstorm capability.
As this link (http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=20&var2=0) indicates, Soundstorm is merely a certification, not any type of special chip. My Abit NF7-S, which is certified, uses the same Realtek audio processor. Keep in mind that this article is a bit old, and more motherboards have been certified for Soundstorm

[zachj]

Thanks for the info. I was just wondering if those Logitechs would work the way they're supposed to on my machine (not that I'm getting them, but I was curious if they would).

Z

[emericanchaos]

Originally posted by Aslan
It has the MCP-T southbridge, so it has Soundstorm capability.
As this link (http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=20&var2=0) indicates, Soundstorm is merely a certification, not any type of special chip. My Abit NF7-S, which is certified, uses the same Realtek audio processor. Keep in mind that this article is a bit old, and more motherboards have been certified for Soundstorm

word you should do some research on this and post a write up defining what soundstorm is.

[Aslan]

Originally posted by emericanchaos


word you should do some research on this and post a write up defining what soundstorm is.

I'll try.... ;)
It might be up sometime in a week or two, got a few essays to do first :p :D

[emericanchaos]

haha alright. it doens't have to be anything tremendously wonderful. could just be lecture style describing how it all works and what the difference is.