tarkins Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 You know the cable that conect your cd drive to the sound card? Do you use it? why and why not? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 I don't. I never noticed a difference with/without it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYoKoNA Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 (edited) I don't. I never noticed a difference with/without it. Probably because you guys are ALL RUNNING ON WINDOWS XP... Prior to Win XP the sound was sent through that "sound cord" to play sound on your CD drive.. When they released Win XP, they made the OS so the sound is sent through the PCI (where the sound card is) through the mobo, out the EIDE to your CD-Roms.....thus making those cords useless... Edited December 23, 2003 by AYoKoNA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 Exactly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilMB3017 Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 Sorry Ayokona, but its not just XP. The orginal idea behind the cord was to bypass the CPU because CPU's werent fast enough to do what you were doing and play a CD at the same time. (286 up to P1's and some PIIs basically) Â I've never used the cord simply because any CPU can handle it these days, and I can't beleive they still include it honestly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 Another good point. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYoKoNA Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 Sorry Ayokona, but its not just XP.The orginal idea behind the cord was to bypass the CPU because CPU's werent fast enough to do what you were doing and play a CD at the same time. (286 up to P1's and some PIIs basically) So why didn't the sound work on Prior Operating Systems if the CPU could handle it? I read on MS's website that XP bypassed the cord...I've never heard sound from the CD-Rom in prior Os's? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some_Guy_ Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 I still use it because the lower my CPU usage is from "background" tasks (I consider multimedia to be background, because I listen while I', working), the more CPU time I can devote to what I'm working on. Or folding. Â That, and I can also hit the play button on the drive without opening any programs and it'll play just fine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 you mean i don't need that crap cord???? On my a7n8x-deluxe mobo it had two spots for it, so i was able to connect them, but on my other computers, there's only one spot and i have two cdroms in each, so one of them would always be without the cord. Maybe i'll just scrap them all the next time i open 'em up. thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 think about it, how does a sound card like the extigy or audigy 2 ns work? they're usb, no cord to them direct from cdrom. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special_K Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 yea i dont connect mine either, win xp pro rox and all but it makes it look better too. less wires = better lookin case Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neural Interface Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 I actually knew that years ago but I forgot that I did, I figured it was XP when I was making my comp, cuase my old one had the wire but then I installed XP on it and took out the wire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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