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Sound Blaster Live LS
Has anybody here tried the Soundblaster Live LS soundcard? I have the
7VAXP board and unhappy with the built-in sound system. Would the LS card be any better? 2200+ AMD 384 MB memory -- /s/ Timothy I. McCrory "Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen." William Cobbett "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." Somerset Maugham "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas |
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"Tim" wrote in message ... Has anybody here tried the Soundblaster Live LS soundcard? I have the 7VAXP board and unhappy with the built-in sound system. Would the LS card be any better? 2200+ AMD 384 MB memory -- /s/ Timothy I. McCrory "Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen." William Cobbett "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." Somerset Maugham "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas I added a Video Logic 5.1 card to my 7VAXP, and that was fine. Not what you asked I know, but similar. In what way do you want the card to be better than the on-board? |
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IanO wrote: I added a Video Logic 5.1 card to my 7VAXP, and that was fine. Not what you asked I know, but similar. In what way do you want the card to be better than the on-board? I would like a sound card that's not so dependent on the CPU. I have a TV capture card and watch video clips. I lose little sound bites all the time while watching video and even some times when listening to music. I would like to try something different. -- /s/ Timothy I. McCrory "Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen." William Cobbett "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." Somerset Maugham "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas |
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"Tim" wrote in message om... IanO wrote: I added a Video Logic 5.1 card to my 7VAXP, and that was fine. Not what you asked I know, but similar. In what way do you want the card to be better than the on-board? I would like a sound card that's not so dependent on the CPU. I have a TV capture card and watch video clips. I lose little sound bites all the time while watching video and even some times when listening to music. I would like to try something different. -- /s/ Timothy I. McCrory "Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen." William Cobbett "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." Somerset Maugham "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Yeah, just curious. I added a card that had more acceleration (in theory) and supported DTS sound, but I can't say that the on-board system performed too badly on my 7VAXP. Sorry I know little of the Sound Blaster you mention, but I do wonder if your clipped sound is due to a problem rather than a limitation. It can happen if the sound driver is sharing an IRQ with a disk controller, for example...... |
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"Andy Lee" wrote in message
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:13:21 GMT, Tim wrote: Has anybody here tried the Soundblaster Live LS soundcard? I have the 7VAXP board and unhappy with the built-in sound system. Would the LS card be any better? 2200+ AMD 384 MB memory Hmm I've got a SB Audigy LS is that the card you are on about if so I can confirm it sound better the the AC97 Realtek that was on my last MSI Neo platingum 939 board which was crap however the onboard sound on the Gigabyte 939 SLI board I'm using now seems fine and I have not felt the need to install the SB in it. I've even boxed it up to flog on E-Bay Never use onboard sound since it's eating CPU time and drains resources - always get a sound card to offload CPU |
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"Andy Lee" wrote in message
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:31:25 +1000, "SteveK" wrote: "Andy Lee" wrote in message On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:13:21 GMT, Tim wrote: Has anybody here tried the Soundblaster Live LS soundcard? I have the 7VAXP board and unhappy with the built-in sound system. Would the LS card be any better? 2200+ AMD 384 MB memory Hmm I've got a SB Audigy LS is that the card you are on about if so I can confirm it sound better the the AC97 Realtek that was on my last MSI Neo platingum 939 board which was crap however the onboard sound on the Gigabyte 939 SLI board I'm using now seems fine and I have not felt the need to install the SB in it. I've even boxed it up to flog on E-Bay Never use onboard sound since it's eating CPU time and drains resources - always get a sound card to offload CPU Which resources would it use that the SB wouldn't use. AC 97 uses a an IO range a memory address and an IRQ just like a SB card. As for this myth that they use more CPU time the early implemetations and poor current ones can and do use more CPU cycles than the SB but a good current AC 97 works just fine. A dedicated sound card has it's own sound processor (cpu) that plays the music - AC97 is 100% relying on the system's CPU to play a single tune. Talking about Creative sound cards their drivers always have been a pain in the a*se and a great source of trouble especially the drivers for their top notch cards. I am off Creative since a few years now and no more nasty sound problems. |
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:26:29 +1000, "SteveK"
wrote: "Andy Lee" wrote in message On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:31:25 +1000, "SteveK" wrote: "Andy Lee" wrote in message On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:13:21 GMT, Tim wrote: Has anybody here tried the Soundblaster Live LS soundcard? I have the 7VAXP board and unhappy with the built-in sound system. Would the LS card be any better? 2200+ AMD 384 MB memory Hmm I've got a SB Audigy LS is that the card you are on about if so I can confirm it sound better the the AC97 Realtek that was on my last MSI Neo platingum 939 board which was crap however the onboard sound on the Gigabyte 939 SLI board I'm using now seems fine and I have not felt the need to install the SB in it. I've even boxed it up to flog on E-Bay Never use onboard sound since it's eating CPU time and drains resources - always get a sound card to offload CPU Which resources would it use that the SB wouldn't use. AC 97 uses a an IO range a memory address and an IRQ just like a SB card. As for this myth that they use more CPU time the early implemetations and poor current ones can and do use more CPU cycles than the SB but a good current AC 97 works just fine. A dedicated sound card has it's own sound processor (cpu) that plays the music - AC97 is 100% relying on the system's CPU to play a single tune. Talking about Creative sound cards their drivers always have been a pain in the a*se and a great source of trouble especially the drivers for their top notch cards. I am off Creative since a few years now and no more nasty sound problems. I tend to agree, and still feel that Tim's problem with choppy sound is more likely to be the result of unfotunate resourse allocation than a hardware limitation. |
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