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haffe
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 Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: Wellsupported soundcards. |
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| I'm fed up with my nforces inability to provide hardware mixing. Therefore I'm going out buying a new one. I have browsed this forum and so far I've seen almost no-one reccomending anything but sb live/audigy/audigy 2. Is this fact? Am I limited to these choices? What about the foritissimo, game theather and so on from Hercules or the Revolution 7.1 from M-audio? |
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frostschutz
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| There are sooo many soundcards supported for Linux, just go to www.alsa-project.org and check the list. I've got a M-Audio 2496 card and am very happy with it. |
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haffe
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| frostschutz wrote: | | There are sooo many soundcards supported for Linux, just go to www.alsa-project.org and check the list. I've got a M-Audio 2496 card and am very happy with it. |
That do Hardware mixing ? |
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blueworm
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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The only choices you have for hardware mixing are emu10k1 driver supported cards: SBLive5.1; audigy; audigy2ZS.
And the cs46xx based cards: Turtle beach santa cruz(discontinued); Hercules Game theatreXP(discontinued).
If what you want is sound quality you are better off with a m-audio audiophile 2496 or audiophile 192. Or if you are in the US a chaintech AV710.
I dont recomend the revolution7.1 (I have one  ). I should have got the audiophile 2496...
What is the intended use of the card? |
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frostschutz
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Audigy is a gamer's card. If you want to play games, you probably have no other choice, if you want to use EAX and other useless stuff.  The M-Audio I use for stuff where quality matters, I've got an E-Piano hooked up to it.
Anyway, the list on www.alsa-project.org also shows which drivers explicitely support hardware mixing. So if this feature is so important to you, you probably should base your choice on that. |
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mlsfit138
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:13 am Post subject: SAVE YOUR MONEY! |
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| haffe wrote: | | I'm fed up with my nforces inability to provide hardware mixing. Therefore I'm going out buying a new one. I have browsed this forum and so far I've seen almost no-one reccomending anything but sb live/audigy/audigy 2. Is this fact? Am I limited to these choices? What about the foritissimo, game theather and so on from Hercules or the Revolution 7.1 from M-audio? |
Nvidia HAS support for hardware mixing. There is a STICKY thread in the Multimedia forum that talks about this, unfortunately the Title of the thread needs to be updated to reflect the fact that NVidia has delivered the goods. The driver is OSS only, and some people complain about that, but it does what you need, and does it well.
Hope it's not too late.
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