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Dedicated PCI cards = less CPU usage?

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killmoms

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Mar 2006

Aug 28, 2006, 07:56 PM Local time: Aug 28, 2006, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Rock

It depends, actually. The nForce2 onboard-soundchip, "Soundstorm" in fact had lower CPU usage than the best PCI cards at that time, including the entire range of Creative Audigy cards. It also featured Dolby Digital 5.1 realtime hardware encoding for the first time ever on a PC platform.

That and the integrated Firewire ports are why I bought an older nForce 2 mobo for my old PC after my MSI one died. Love Soundstorm, and I wish they'd kept developing it.

Ah well.

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