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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:27:29 -0000, "Richard Dower" <richarddower@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
>"joe~V~3838" <jms2@gbronline.com> wrote in message
>news:Y-ednaGBwMtdm17cRVn-ig@gbronline.com...
>hey daytripper
>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:11:15 -0500, "joe~V~3838" <jms2@gbronline.com>
>> wrote:
>> >"Cuzman" <cuzNOSPAM@supanet.com> wrote in message
>> >news:32d5buF3lbn33U1@individual.net...
>> >> "joe~V~3838" <jms2@gbronline.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:2sidnaFOHIlWdV3cRVn-ig@gbronline.com...
>> >>
>> >> " I've done searches and couldn't find any info and figured that it
>> >> would
>> >> be good to post this in the main motherboard newgroups at the same time
>> >> in
>> >> hopes of getting a answer. "
>> >>
>> >>
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/nforce4-ultra/index.x?pg=15
>> >>
>> >thanks for the link cuzman, good review.
>> >So, looks like many pci cards out now will be converted to
>> >pci express x1 or higher in the near future... , interesting...
>> >wonder what sound cards will use? x1, x4, or stay with regular pci?
>>
>> There will be a transition from PCI to x1 PCI Express, both of which are
>> overkill for virtually anything to do with audio...
>>
>> /daytripper
>
>are you sure that using pci e x1 for the new 'zenith' audio card due out in
>march 2005 wouldn't be much of an improvement over the audigy 2 zs ?
>I'm going to go and buy the audigy 2 zs at best buy today for $50 since
>according to richard in a post above, the creative 'zenith' pci-e x1 sound
>card
>won't be out until march 2005..that's to long to wait for me.
>
>thanks everyone for the helpful info.....
>
>The new Augigy card is based on whole new hardware/chip. It's totally
>revised audio processing unit. New DAC's apparently increasing the S/N
>ratio.
>
>But Creative haven't really said anything concrete, though there are tidbits
>on the net.
The data transfer rate of even a 33mhz 32-bit PCI bus peaks at roughly 120
MEGABYTES per second.
A decent sound channel might absorb as much as 22khz * wtf_lets_say_32bits_per
sample for a total of 88 KILOBYTES per second.
So a sound card that could manage 8 discrete 32-bit channels might pull a
grand total of 700 KILOBYTES per second, max.
Still think sound cards need the 512 Megabyte/second peak, uncooked data
transfer rate of PCI Express x1?
/daytripper
(There were reasons even ISA sound cards managed to do pretty well ;-)
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