Author Topic: Do I need a sound card or not? (Read 725 times)

Blagard · « **Reply #15 on:** September 01, 2006, 08:31:05 AM »

Thank you all.

The answer is quite clear to me. I have now ordered the motherboard I mentioned. I am confident that the onboard chip will at least least work in Aces High, so there is currently no point in investing in a budget sound card.

In a couple of weeks when all the bits have been installed in the nice new PC case I will let you know how it works.

Regards

flakbait · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2006, 11:06:31 AM »

Asus A7N8X-E here with onboard 5.1 sound; works flawlessly in every game I've got. From AH to Doom3 to LOMAC to Silent Hunter III, I've never had a sound glitch. For some reason, nForce boards don't get the same performance gain when switching to a sound card. On any other, killing the onboard sound will get you a slight increase in performance. Not so with nForce. The gain is there, it simply isn't as large. Though running an AMD64 pretty much negates it; with that thing you'll have horsepower to spare.

And you will love the nForce drivers! No headaches, no nastyness, and unlike VIA they actually work.

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StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 01, 2006, 11:38:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
When did you join the club?! Did they teach you the secret handshake yet?

Ha! Trick question! The Cheap and Lazy club for Men doesnt have a secret handshake. They are too lazy to come up with one - and too lazy to get up and shake your hand anyway if they did - and too cheap to pay someone to come up with one!

Krusty · « **Reply #18 on:** September 01, 2006, 01:41:26 PM »

Welcome, brother!

Roscoroo · « **Reply #19 on:** September 01, 2006, 02:07:48 PM »

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Originally posted by flakbait
Asus A7N8X-E here with onboard 5.1 sound; works flawlessly in every game I've got. From AH to Doom3 to LOMAC to Silent Hunter III, I've never had a sound glitch. For some reason, nForce boards don't get the same performance gain when switching to a sound card. On any other, killing the onboard sound will get you a slight increase in performance. Not so with nForce. The gain is there, it simply isn't as large. Though running an AMD64 pretty much negates it; with that thing you'll have horsepower to spare.

And you will love the nForce drivers! No headaches, no nastyness, and unlike VIA they actually work.

Thats what i have at home a7n8x-e dlx running the 4.27 international drivers the onboard sound works great .. I run hires in ah2 and play music underneath i dont have any probs .

DeadSpy · « **Reply #20 on:** September 08, 2006, 11:24:47 PM »

i just put together my ASUS Crosshair system, and the Motherboard comes with some sort of sound card on it already. Its called the soundMAX supremeFX card. ive been having lots of problems in game, including one where, whenever i key VOX, i lose all sounds in game, if i alt-tab out and back in , sound comes back. No one can hear my VOX but can hear radio beeps. I also have had lockups that i think may be related to sound. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? does anyone else know about this problem? could it be something other than my sound card?
Im running an AMD FX-62 on the Asus crosshair motherboard with windows XP x64. 2 nVidia 7900GT cards in SLI, and plenty of RAM. Ive also installed two patches from AMD regarding the dual-core processor as well as the most recent non-beta BIOS, audio, and video drivers.

Wolfala · « **Reply #21 on:** September 08, 2006, 11:34:48 PM »

I'm just using onboard sound on an ABIT A8N-32x. With the little amount of overhead presented by AH, it is no factor in framerates or slowdowns. I havn't noticed any.

Brenjen · « **Reply #22 on:** September 09, 2006, 11:35:44 AM »

I have the ASUS A8N SLI Premium mobo & I was getting snapping,popping & crackle in my onboard sound while playing AH, I kept looking around for other players eating rice krispies with an open mic. I got the Audigy 2Z & it cleared up.

Blagard · « **Reply #23 on:** September 12, 2006, 05:50:22 PM »

Brenjen,

I will be really intersted to see if that happens to me!

I've built my new PC and just waiting for the graphics card to arrive before booting it up for the first time. - Aces High will be the first "game" I load up and hope to try it this weekend on that PC unless I'm recovering the lead roof, windsurfing or some other distraction!

Schutt · « **Reply #24 on:** September 13, 2006, 04:39:05 AM »

Krusty / SOA2 there is no handshake needed, no handshake is the clear sign for cheap & lazy.

Blagard · « **Reply #25 on:** September 15, 2006, 07:11:28 PM »

New PC up and running with on board sound chip.

No problems at all with sound except for leaving a bathroom echo on when first trying Vox! - never had the option for those effects before.

As for frame rates, I have no idea of the impact the chip has because it just isn't a problem. Getting a flat 60FPS generally and high 50's in low level furball at a field. Just one flight tonight and four kills off one spit clip, so you might say I am rather a happy soul right now! I could actually see what I was shooting at tonight with a nice new 19" Viewsonic 922

cheers Blagard.