Onboard Sound

[Biagidp]

I...am using onboard sound. I know it' shocking, but I took out my old SB Live to put in a machine with no sound at all. I have the ASUS A78NX dlx which uses the Nforce 2 sound and its not bad. I was just wondering if anyone has used this and then upgraded to an Audigity 1 or 2. Just wondering if the sound quality increases noticably or not.

 

Thanks

Biagi

[RadioActivated]

I...am using onboard sound. I know it' shocking, but I took out my old SB Live to put in a machine with no sound at all. I have the ASUS A78NX dlx which uses the Nforce 2 sound and its not bad. I was just wondering if anyone has used this and then upgraded to an Audigity 1 or 2. Just wondering if the sound quality increases noticably or not.

 

Thanks

Biagi

I had SoundMax, Pretty much the same thing as your Nforce2 Sound..just a little weaker maybe..

 

And i got an Audigy 1 sound card..and MAn do i ever see the difference.

 

The only difference with the Audigy 1...is that i can adjust the Bass and Treble to my likings..

[LobbDogg]

Yeah I tried the Soundstorm, but I had to put my Audigy back in. I mean the Soundstorm wasn't bad, but the Audigy was much better IMO. I was just able to get the clarity out of my sound system.

[Eva_Unit_0]

I tried soundstorm, and never looked back to my audigy again. it kicked the audigy in the crotch, no joke. I never once got my audigy to work properly with Creative's POS drivers, and the kx drivers, although they rock, they do not work well for gaming. I absolutley loved the soundstorm on my old A7N8X deluxe.

[jammin]

I use the on board sound on my mobo also, and i think its perfectly decent. As my Board has a VIA chipset i have realtek sound (RTL8101L), so i don't know how it compares to soundstorm. I have tried out several different soundcards in my comp, including an audigy 1. The fact that i am still using the onboard sound says something. Yeah sure, the audigy did sound a reasonable amount better, but not enough for me to ignore annoyances with the creative drivers/software.

If you are consider upgrading, you probably won't notice much difference unless you play alot of games and listen to alot of music/play films thru your computer. You also have to have the speakers to get the best sound out of it.

So if you do upgrade i would go with an audigy 2. The zs version isn't expensive and will most likely give you a decent sound improvment, you just have to remeber the possible downsides to this (mostly irritating[to me] drivers and software, plus I noticed that having a soundcard on the pci bus seemed to effect the stability of my OC'ing efforts)..

 

hope this is a help

Edited May 21, 2004 by jammin

[icemiko]

i am using a sb audigy right now too.. its pretty good...

[DevilMB3017]

It really only depends on what your speakers are, what your listening to, and how good your ears are. In my system, there is no difference between a Audigy and my Soundstorm, the speakers don't allow for a difference. (Mid-range Logitech Z-640s). But if you have ultra-high end speakers, you'll need a high end sound card too.

[tsamb.]

On my OCed fixer upper box I am using generic integrated intel 865 sound... I am not using it for much gaming or music so I don't really need the sound. But when I do overclock it, I get interference with the sound and it is like the CPU clock is coming through on speakers. There is no problem what-so-ever with overclocking when you have a standalone soundcard though. I really do notice the difference between my Audigy 2 and my AC97 sound, but you do get what you pay for...

 

-tsamb.