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P4C800-E Deluxe - Recommended Sound card or use motherboard sound
Hi all,
Need your recommendations: I am not a gamer, will mainly use my system for home video editing and may listening to cd's Do you recommned using the onboard sound or what soundcard do you recommend?? Thanks Butch |
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I just finished a new build based on that motherboard. It has decent
onboard sound which you might try. I am an audio nut and wanted the best sound for the buck even on my computer and used an Audigy 2ZX Platinum sound card--BUT found the hard way that there is a problem between Norton Systemworks 2004 (especially the Antivirus portion) and the Audigy software. IF I had it to do over again, either Norton or the Audigy 2ZX would have been eliminated. Just some things to consider. MikeSp -------------------------------------------- "Butch Hinton" wrote in message ... Hi all, Need your recommendations: I am not a gamer, will mainly use my system for home video editing and may listening to cd's Do you recommned using the onboard sound or what soundcard do you recommend?? Thanks Butch |
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Using the onboard sound will place a ~10% load on the CPU for audio
decoding. I'd get a soundcard; it will alos have better quality sound. -- DaveW "Butch Hinton" wrote in message ... Hi all, Need your recommendations: I am not a gamer, will mainly use my system for home video editing and may listening to cd's Do you recommned using the onboard sound or what soundcard do you recommend?? Thanks Butch |
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No offense, Mike, but if you're an audio nut, why in the world did you
install a Creative sound card? M-Audio for quality sound, Creative for low CPU overhead game play (and not good for much else, IMO). On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:32:10 -0500, "MikeSp" wrote: I just finished a new build based on that motherboard. It has decent onboard sound which you might try. I am an audio nut and wanted the best sound for the buck even on my computer and used an Audigy 2ZX Platinum sound card--BUT found the hard way that there is a problem between Norton Systemworks 2004 (especially the Antivirus portion) and the Audigy software. IF I had it to do over again, either Norton or the Audigy 2ZX would have been eliminated. Just some things to consider. MikeSp -------------------------------------------- "Butch Hinton" wrote in message ... Hi all, Need your recommendations: I am not a gamer, will mainly use my system for home video editing and may listening to cd's Do you recommned using the onboard sound or what soundcard do you recommend?? Thanks Butch |
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Point well-taken. I did not do much research on the sound card and were I
to do another build soon (doubtful), the Revolution 7.1 would be of interest--I was not familiar with it until I did some Googling. I felt that the Audigy 2 ZX was a middling, mainstream and mature card that should have no issues with its drivers and conflict with any other software---WRONG on the software conflict part! As an audio and HT enthusiast, I watch DVDs and listen to most music on my audio and HT system with my aging nongolden ears;-) MikeSp ---------------------------------------------- "Eli" wrote in message ... No offense, Mike, but if you're an audio nut, why in the world did you install a Creative sound card? M-Audio for quality sound, Creative for low CPU overhead game play (and not good for much else, IMO). On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:32:10 -0500, "MikeSp" wrote: I just finished a new build based on that motherboard. It has decent onboard sound which you might try. I am an audio nut and wanted the best sound for the buck even on my computer and used an Audigy 2ZX Platinum sound card--BUT found the hard way that there is a problem between Norton Systemworks 2004 (especially the Antivirus portion) and the Audigy software. IF I had it to do over again, either Norton or the Audigy 2ZX would have been eliminated. Just some things to consider. MikeSp -------------------------------------------- "Butch Hinton" wrote in message ... Hi all, Need your recommendations: I am not a gamer, will mainly use my system for home video editing and may listening to cd's Do you recommned using the onboard sound or what soundcard do you recommend?? Thanks Butch |
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:32:10 -0500, "MikeSp"
wrote: I just finished a new build based on that motherboard. It has decent onboard sound which you might try. I am an audio nut and wanted the best sound for the buck even on my computer and used an Audigy 2ZX Platinum sound card--BUT found the hard way that there is a problem between Norton Systemworks 2004 (especially the Antivirus portion) and the Audigy software. IF I had it to do over again, either Norton or the Audigy 2ZX would have been eliminated. Just some things to consider. MikeSp -------------------------------------------- "Butch Hinton" wrote in message ... Hi all, Need your recommendations: I am not a gamer, will mainly use my system for home video editing and may listening to cd's Do you recommned using the onboard sound or what soundcard do you recommend?? Thanks Butch NO CONTEST...Norton SystemWorks SUXs NOD32 or Kaspersky AV far, far superior...NSW seems to be having the same kind of effects on other software as EZ-CD Creator did in the past...as always, IMHO Memphoman |
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"Memphoman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:32:10 -0500, "MikeSp" wrote: I just finished a new build based on that motherboard. It has decent onboard sound which you might try. I am an audio nut and wanted the best sound for the buck even on my computer and used an Audigy 2ZX Platinum sound card--BUT found the hard way that there is a problem between Norton Systemworks 2004 (especially the Antivirus portion) and the Audigy software. IF I had it to do over again, either Norton or the Audigy 2ZX would have been eliminated. Just some things to consider. MikeSp -------------------------------------------- "Butch Hinton" wrote in message ... Hi all, Need your recommendations: I am not a gamer, will mainly use my system for home video editing and may listening to cd's Do you recommned using the onboard sound or what soundcard do you recommend?? Thanks Butch NO CONTEST...Norton SystemWorks SUXs NOD32 or Kaspersky AV far, far superior...NSW seems to be having the same kind of effects on other software as EZ-CD Creator did in the past...as always, IMHO Memphoman EZ-CD Creator--THAT brings back painful memories that were only solved with Nero 5.5 and those memories nearly caused me to avoid purchasing Roxio Easy Media Creator 7, except that it was hyped so much--now that it has a conflict, I again reflect back and wonder IF I made another stoopid blunder. Norton Systemworks 2004 also is an issue--just that I have been a user of Norton since DOS days and found it utterly dependable and reliable in the past, but now it seems so invasive that I will have to either lose it or my Audigy 2ZX Platinum sound card. There are several good AV programs out there, but having the convenience of a suite that keeps track of encrypted passwords, does nice web cleanups, superficially checks the registry for errors, prevents pop-ups, controls cookies, does a fair job of defragging, etc. is VERY convenient and ALMOST offsets its problem conflicts with other pieces of software. Sometimes I have wondered IF individual pieces of unrelated standalone software to do the jobs of the NSW 2004 would be as potentially troublesome--I could easily go back to Zone Alarm for a software firewall until I get a router. MikeSp |
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