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Sound Blaster Live vs DFI Lan Party built-in sound
Hi,
I've recently put together a system with an AMD64 3200+ and a DFI LanParty board with Nforce 350 chipset. The board has built in 7 channel sounds. I also have an older Sound Blaster Live card. Question is, in term of sound quality, which one is better? If the Live is better, I can use it for game. If not, I will use the built in sound option. Thanks. |
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Bitstring . com, from
the wonderful person doobeeyah said Hi, I've recently put together a system with an AMD64 3200+ and a DFI LanParty board with Nforce 350 chipset. The board has built in 7 channel sounds. I also have an older Sound Blaster Live card. Question is, in term of sound quality, which one is better? If the Live is better, I can use it for game. If not, I will use the built in sound option. Sound quality is very subjective, but I'd personally take any of the nForce implementations over an SBLive any day of the week, if only because the drivers are less likely to SNAFU the system .. but (IMO) the nForce sounds better too (at least the nForce2 did, I assume the 350 hasn't gone backwards from there). Also depends what you have hooked to it .. I mean neither my speakers, nor the computer room they reside in, are exactly $1,000 HiFi quality. 8. -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing. |
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:05:53 +0000, GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote:
Bitstring . com, from the wonderful person doobeeyah said Hi, I've recently put together a system with an AMD64 3200+ and a DFI LanParty board with Nforce 350 chipset. The board has built in 7 channel sounds. I also have an older Sound Blaster Live card. Question is, in term of sound quality, which one is better? If the Live is better, I can use it for game. If not, I will use the built in sound option. Sound quality is very subjective, but I'd personally take any of the nForce implementations over an SBLive any day of the week, if only because the drivers are less likely to SNAFU the system .. but (IMO) the nForce sounds better too (at least the nForce2 did, I assume the 350 hasn't gone backwards from there). I'd take a rusty washboard over *anything* Creative has ever sold. I just bought a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz for my WinMachine (my wife was getting ****ed at no sound). It works *very* well. ...certainly better than anything I've used from CL! Also depends what you have hooked to it .. I mean neither my speakers, nor the computer room they reside in, are exactly $1,000 HiFi quality. 8. Computers and $1000 HiFi's? Well you really gotta keep up that 107dB seperation between channels and the 100dB noise floor that sound cards promise! -- Keith |
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:05:53 +0000, GSV Three Minds in a Can
wrote: Bitstring . com, from the wonderful person doobeeyah said Hi, I've recently put together a system with an AMD64 3200+ and a DFI LanParty board with Nforce 350 chipset. The board has built in 7 channel sounds. I also have an older Sound Blaster Live card. Question is, in term of sound quality, which one is better? If the Live is better, I can use it for game. If not, I will use the built in sound option. Sound quality is very subjective, but I'd personally take any of the nForce implementations over an SBLive any day of the week, if only because the drivers are less likely to SNAFU the system .. but (IMO) the nForce sounds better too (at least the nForce2 did, I assume the 350 hasn't gone backwards from there). I'm afraid there's no built-in audio on a nForce3 - looks like it had to be dropped for a single-chip "solution". My MSI K8N Neo2 Plat. has a RealTek ALC850.:-( Rgds, George Macdonald "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me?? |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:18:45 -0500, keith wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:05:53 +0000, GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote: Bitstring . com, from the wonderful person doobeeyah said Hi, I've recently put together a system with an AMD64 3200+ and a DFI LanParty board with Nforce 350 chipset. The board has built in 7 channel sounds. I also have an older Sound Blaster Live card. Question is, in term of sound quality, which one is better? If the Live is better, I can use it for game. If not, I will use the built in sound option. Sound quality is very subjective, but I'd personally take any of the nForce implementations over an SBLive any day of the week, if only because the drivers are less likely to SNAFU the system .. but (IMO) the nForce sounds better too (at least the nForce2 did, I assume the 350 hasn't gone backwards from there). I'd take a rusty washboard over *anything* Creative has ever sold. I just bought a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz for my WinMachine (my wife was getting ****ed at no sound). It works *very* well. ...certainly better than anything I've used from CL! Alas Ensoniq - I'm still ouraged that Creative LLC was allowed to buy a competitor with better technology, just so they could snuff it out. Remember those were also the buggers who tried to impose a proprietary CD-ROM interface "standard" and even when that was shot down they refused to sell a sound card without an IDE/ATAPI interface for years after the ATAPI interface was well established. They'll never see a red cent of mine. My Ensoniq Vivo just got retired with my P3B-F. Rgds, George Macdonald "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me?? |
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On 27 Dec 2004 09:25:13 -0800, "doobeeyah"
wrote: I've recently put together a system with an AMD64 3200+ and a DFI LanParty board with Nforce 350 chipset. The board has built in 7 channel sounds. I also have an older Sound Blaster Live card. Question is, in term of sound quality, which one is better? If the Live is better, I can use it for game. If not, I will use the built in sound option. Sound quality is rather tough to compare and also can vary greatly from one solution to another with identical chips. I have two motherboards that both use the same C-Media chip but where one sounds quite good, the other kind of stinks. This particular board seems to use a Realtek ALC850 codec, which can be used to produce very good quality sound. Given that this is a higher-end board from DFI, I would guess that it'll sound every bit as good as an SBLive card. Of course, I'm with Keith and his rusty washboard when it comes to anything Creative-related. Creative is, IMO, one of the worst companies in the computer business. Their drivers have almost always been awful, often taking years to fix well-known bugs, and the company has used more than it's share of shady business practices. If I were you, I would either stick with the integrated audio or get a new sound card. For the above-mentioned system with the rather crummy integrated audio I purchased a Chaintech AV-710 using the VIA Envy 24PT chipset. Sound quality on this card is excellent, it has all the standard features and all necessary connectors (including optical out). Considering the system in question is my media center PC (if I ever get the damn software working right! : ), good sound is somewhat important. Best of all though, this card was VERY economical. Newegg lists it for $25 (though they're out of stock). ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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since we're talking sound cards, just wondering if any of you can tell
me what sort of speaker set-up is required to take good advantage of, say, a low to mid-range sound card. i have an altec lansing 2.1 set with 30 watts of power and a fairly thumping sub-woofer. it's plenty loud for my apartment and has good overall sound quality using my comps integrated sound. but what i want is more brillance and clarity of sound. better seperation and envelopment of sound. higher highs and lower lows. if i add a sound card do you think my modest 2.1 system will do the trick. even in a modest way? which would be fine. also, i have seen a turtle beach usb external plug-in keychain card. at $30.00 this would seem low end. might this sort of card be the sort of sound enhancer my 2.1 system is best suited for? thanks for any replys : ) |
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