AngusHades:
G’day I’m from aus here and I’ve been reading from THG for quite sometime now , I often see some of you wankers say crap about having a sound card doesn’t improve at all which is a load of BS. I recently brought a XFI and I play games at 12801024 and there is improvement in my FPS. Even my GF could notice the difference. I often wonder if any of you guys have even owned a sound card before you say your 2cents. It’s like you have a voice with nothing to back it up. You don’t even address people’s problems correctly in some forms, you just say buy this…hardly anything else….Anyhow this is my
first say in THG and the whole form deal.
A very impressive entry! Welcome to the forumz, brother. It is nice to see someone who speaks his mind without being unnecessarily "politically correct" in a very annoying true-blue manner
Keep it up and don't let anyone force you to second-guess every word you say. Again, welcome.
jaguarskx:
I've always used SoundBlaster cards in the few PCs I've owned over the years. Onboard sound has always been kinda crappy to me. However, I think performance loss would be small if using a very fast single core CPU, or any dual core CPU. I'm guessing the 15% loss in performance would be for older systems with slow CPUs.
You are correct. Weaker systems will see a greater boost. However, we often see posts where people ask "What can I do to put another year of life into my aging system?"
Our typical first response is "Get this or that video card". But it turns out that we can do more by adding a dedicated sound card too (you can get a pretty good one for $50). No?
Dr_Asik:
People who spend a lot of money on overclocking represent a minority of geeks. Most people either don't know about all those beautiful ways of wasting time and money, or figure out that money is better invested on one important upgrade from time to time than small, sometimes psychological and often risky "tweaks".
Hehe
True.
What bothers me with your initial statement is that it sounds like "no wonder you're getting bad framerates, you're using onboard sound". That's like saying "no wonder you're getting bad framerates, you're not even overclocking the hell out of your rig".
No need to be bothered. You misread my OP. See my signature. (Written) English is, unfortunately, rather ambiguous.
4745454b:
Why are you guys using synthetic benchies? Why not use real games?
Because it is very complicated and time-consuming. PM me if you'd like the details.
wallis:
i have gained about 2fps more in doom 3, 5fps more in CSS source, and about 6 fps more in quake 3 using the same gfx drivers.
Thanks. With others doing this on different configurations we can get to the bottom of this after all.
HOWEVER, Wallis, saying that you get 2 FPS here or 6 there is saying nothing. What was your prior FPS? If you had 20 FPS and gained 2 it means a 10% boost. 60 versus 66 FPS is a 10% gain as well. See?
StrangeStranger:
hmm, although i never buy a soundcard for FPS increases i am willing to help test this regardless iof the test accuracy.
I said thanks in my PM. Here it is again. Let's play with this and have some fun.
It may be impossible for me to do serious testing this weekend, but I will try.
Cheers everyone.
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