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I am thinking about RMAing my kt400 Abit KD7 and getting an Nforce2 and from what i read it looks like Epox is the best one if i plan to OC. So I was reading a review on Newegg about the 8RDA (non-plus) because I am on a pretty tight budget and would rather just get the 8RDA instead of the 8RDA+, but i saw this in a Newegg review of the 8RDA that someone posted where they quoted something:
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"The MCP has no hardware support for audio of any kind, period. Windows and the CPU do all the audio work on that part and there is absolutely no DSP, NVIDIA or otherwise, in that chip to help out. Try to do EAX, any kind of reverb or chorus, or a music preset on those boards and you'll see the CPU usage climb. Ditto if you add more voices to the mix: CPU usage goes up.
The MCP-T has a full hardware audio DSP, hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D streams, and Dolby Digital encode support. EQs, HRTFs, and all environmental settings are exposed and modifiable by the user. None of this is available on the soft solutions due to the heavy hit on the CPU if they were enabled.
Short of that, you can try to use the ASIO or OpenAL drivers. You'll find that neither will work on the MCP because there is no supporting hardware for them. In short, there is no way to coax an MCP to be an APU capable part, the support simply isn't in the chip."
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I am wondering what exactly this means? Does the above only apply to people wanting to use the Onboard sound?
As you can tell I don't know much about sound stuff so, i mostly just want to know, is the 8RDA just as good as the 8RDA+ if I am going to use a sound card rather than onboard sound?
Thanks for any info
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"The MCP has no hardware support for audio of any kind, period. Windows and the CPU do all the audio work on that part and there is absolutely no DSP, NVIDIA or otherwise, in that chip to help out. Try to do EAX, any kind of reverb or chorus, or a music preset on those boards and you'll see the CPU usage climb. Ditto if you add more voices to the mix: CPU usage goes up.
The MCP-T has a full hardware audio DSP, hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D streams, and Dolby Digital encode support. EQs, HRTFs, and all environmental settings are exposed and modifiable by the user. None of this is available on the soft solutions due to the heavy hit on the CPU if they were enabled.
Short of that, you can try to use the ASIO or OpenAL drivers. You'll find that neither will work on the MCP because there is no supporting hardware for them. In short, there is no way to coax an MCP to be an APU capable part, the support simply isn't in the chip."
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I am wondering what exactly this means? Does the above only apply to people wanting to use the Onboard sound?
As you can tell I don't know much about sound stuff so, i mostly just want to know, is the 8RDA just as good as the 8RDA+ if I am going to use a sound card rather than onboard sound?
Thanks for any info
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