Sound Card = 40% more FPS!!!

Originally Posted by Arainach

Relic, the X-Fi is no FASTER than Onboard sound. It may be able to decode EAC and other codecs, but that's not faster. The only "speed" benefit relative to onboard is that your CPU doesn't have to decode your sound. But that's never intensive enough to give you a 40% FPS boost. That's a load of crap.





....just like Creative's Sound Cards.

Oh come off it. These are easily repeatable benchmarks. You take a machine with integrated sound (and video) benchmark it against a machine with a super-awesome-extreme standalone soundcard (and video), and there you have it. Huge FPS increase.


...What?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

I like how you're an idiot.

It's been stated for years that onboard video is shit and we already know it.

Onboard video has no point ANYWHERE in this topic. This is comparing on-board audio performance to soundcard audio performance.

Therefore, your made-up benchmark scenario FAILS.

It seems my sarcasm didn't go over particularly well on that one.

I was making a joke about how outlandish the performance claim was, and making a point that whatever testing method used (All we know is that it in some way involves an X-fi and Battlefield 2) has go to be very carefully chosen to pull off that kind of number.

The performance jump just sounds too similar to those OS comparisons where they run a machine with 256MB of RAM vs. 1024MB.

And for the record, no I don't have an X-fi, not that I have anything against them (Despite issues with Creative in the past).

Though it seems I'm an idiot none the less.

How ya doing, buddy?