Dumb Question

[Masherbrum]

I've been noticing some oscillation when using my OnBoard sound.   I have an Audigy Gamer (1st Gen) sitting here that works.    My question is this, will I be helping my PC or bottlenecking it (being from 2001 or 2)?

[Spatula]

My guess is that it should help alleviate some of the load on the CPU and therefore free up more cycles for other duties like Aces High

[Chalenge]

Im no expert but I would try it. Did you do the 3/4 hardware acceleration fix first?

[Masherbrum]

My guess is that it should help alleviate some of the load on the CPU and therefore free up more cycles for other duties like Aces High

Spatula, I have an E8400 and I don't think the On Board sound is killing it for cycles.   I realize that some cycles will be freed up. 

Edit:  I'm using it and the On Board quality although 7.1, sucked.   I'm using the old Audigy and the sound is much better and does not oscillate.

[Spatula]

will I be helping my PC or bottlenecking it (being from 2001 or 2)?

I would still say helping it, but as to how much is another question.

[BaldEagl]

Glad to hear it worked.  I thought it might.

I bet that you'd still find further improved sound with a newer soundcard.

[Masherbrum]

Glad to hear it worked.  I thought it might.

I bet that you'd still find further improved sound with a newer soundcard.

Yeah.  I'll run this till Spring and grab a Fatality or something of the sort.   

[doc1kelley]

Yeah.  I'll run this till Spring and grab a Fatality or something of the sort.   

When I finished my new rig a short while back I had tried the onboard sound and found it to be a royal pain in the arse!  It is an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe with an HD sound chip.  It was horrible and the problems with onboard sound was not hogging my CPU cycles but poor performance in AH using Vox.  I disabled it and stuck in an old SB Audigy and everything was fine.  I did however replace the old Audigy with an X-Fi extreme audio PCI-E card recently.  The problem is that the PCI slots position the cards too close to the Vid cards which are PCI-E.  The bottom line is that the old SB Audigy will work just fine for ya in AH.  The onboard sound is the curse of all evil, along with microsloth and it's Vista.heheheh

Long live WinBlows XP!

All the Best...
    Jay
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