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Animionic

07-21-2002, 10:14 PM

Is integrated sound any good?

I have an Asus A7S333 motherboard

Thanks!

grimfandango

07-21-2002, 10:28 PM

yup I think its good enough!!

:)

NDD

07-21-2002, 10:37 PM

C-Media CMI8738 ... no Live! but no "usual" AC'97 either :rolleyes:
Quite nice, actually.

Animionic

07-21-2002, 10:57 PM

ok cause i was thinking that using integrated would lose performance...

grimfandango

07-21-2002, 10:59 PM

naa you wont lose any performance...!

Peter M

07-22-2002, 04:34 AM

Can't say that so generically. There are just as many PCI sound cards that suck (CPU usage wise) as there are chipset integrated sound engines that don't.

What you have there isn't even chipset integrated sound, but a normal PCI sound chip - the nowadays very popular CMI8738. CMI got big through the PC-Chips onboard deals, mainly, now everyone and their dog is using their stuff.

Chipset integrated sound engines range from NVidia's solution and ALi's licensed Trident 4DWave engine which is very good (also used in SiS chipsets 540, 630, 730), over VIA's DDR chipsets which are so-so, down to Intel's as well as SiS's other chipsets which are almost entirely CPU driven.

Sound cards span an even wider range - ironically the most advanced solutions eat just as much CPU power as the cheapest ones (for different reasons though :))

regards, Peter

Animionic

07-22-2002, 11:44 AM

Alrighty! Thanks a lot!