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Old 09-20-03, 02:40 AM Thread Starter   #1
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Which card better or equal to..


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?

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Old 09-20-03, 05:20 AM   #2
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Audigy 2? Only about $75.
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Old 09-20-03, 06:11 PM   #3
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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.
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Old 09-20-03, 11:03 PM   #4
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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.

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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 . . .

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It has the MCP-T southbridge, so it has Soundstorm capability.
As this link 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

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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).

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It has the MCP-T southbridge, so it has Soundstorm capability.
As this link 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.

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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
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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.

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