sound card question

**mike14** · 03-01-2005, 12:44 PM

hi guys
will upgrading from a sound blaster live to a sound blaster audigy 2 improve fs proformance

***JSkorna*** · 03-01-2005, 03:24 PM

The sound may be better depending on your speakers, but you are not going to get any more FPS.

Hope this helps,
Jim
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**YaBe** · 03-01-2005, 04:57 PM

As jJim noted.. you might experience better sound.. .. normally using a pci audio card will in a way enhance FPS as well as a dedicated audio card would remove some workload from the cpu ... or mainbard for that matter... but ehre.. you already have a pci card... o i doubt you lll experience better FPS..

Andy

***loki*** · 03-01-2005, 05:54 PM

All Sound Blaster PCI cards will take the load of off the CPU, so going from a Live! to an Audigy 2 won't provide any more performance. It will get you EAX 3 and 4 support and better sound quality though.

Not all PCI cards do though. Some like the M-Audio Revolution give better qualoty than onboard, or even an Audigy, but still rely heavily on the CPU.

loki

**Rcca** · 03-02-2005, 02:06 AM

I had a Extigy external,was hard on the CPU,put in a Audigy 2 Value,did not now How good my Speakers sounded til I put in A/2 WOW!FPS went up,using 71.81 www.tweaksrus.com,using the NV3X performance.GREAT DRIVERS.Ron
Sony Rx 550 1.5 512MB ram
SP2 9.0C
XFX 5700LE 256MB 71.81
Audigy2 Value/Lansing 251 5.1

**Bruce** · 03-02-2005, 08:03 AM

if you have an Nforce 2 mobo with soundstorm you will get better frame rates by using the onboard sound: http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20030405/index.html

***loki*** · 03-02-2005, 10:07 AM

You need to make sure to use the digital output though. Analog speakers won't benefit unless you have a digital receiver between them and the PC. If you use the analog outputs on the motherboard you will only be using the Realtek onboard sound that most motherboards have.

loki

**kc10** · 03-02-2005, 03:11 PM

Sometimes better performance is not necessarilly higher framerates, but what you get instead is less of a drop in framerates. This upgrade could help in that way, even if only by a small amount.

I made the same upgrade and I did get better sound, that's for sure.