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Anybody using the nVidia Sound Storm ?

Oct 21, 2004 at 2:17 PM Post #16 of 28
Yes, Dolby Digital is lossy (and not very good lossy at that, 448 kbps (or something similar) for 6 channels, though fine for stuff like games it's fine).

Also, for I minute I went back to my NF7-S onboard audio to see if I could get an increase in bass over my bass-shy AV-710 (which I did) but then when a guitar came on in the track I was listening to (dont' remember what it was) it was all grainy and fake sounding, despite resampling and dithering, so back to the AV-710 (w/ a slight bass-boost EQ).
 
Oct 21, 2004 at 3:17 PM Post #17 of 28
The Soundstorm was my main source before coming to head-fi. I still use it occationally for the hell of it, just to keep a reference of lower quality sound. I find it to have a rather dull sound, with quite poor dynamics, and congested soundstage. You can hear everything just fine (i.e. no real frequency response distortions) but the listening experience is just very uninvolving. Of course it is fine for games & TV.
 
Oct 21, 2004 at 3:48 PM Post #18 of 28
If I want to play games, I don't think I will use SoundStorm either.

It compress the sound and encoded to Dolby Digital, I rather using Audigy series soundcard for games so no compression involved.

Just my personal opinion.


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Oct 21, 2004 at 7:13 PM Post #20 of 28
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Originally Posted by sygyzy
For those using an nForce board, what PCI slot did you put the 1212M on?


well i had my card modded by Iron_Dreamer and my mobo being a micro-atx, the 1212M card occupies the 1st and the 2nd slots. the only remaining slot is taken by the I/O card. its quite a tight fit inside my aria case, to say the least
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Oct 21, 2004 at 10:45 PM Post #22 of 28
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Originally Posted by Budley007
Mine rest in the bottom two slots.


Should I interpret that as the PCI card sits in the second to last spot and the I/O card sits in the very bottom?
 
Oct 21, 2004 at 10:46 PM Post #23 of 28
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Originally Posted by sygyzy
For those using an nForce board, what PCI slot did you put the 1212M on?


Mine is around the middle. The top slot is blocked by the Zalman VGA cooler from my Radeon 9800. The bottom 2 are blocked due to a hard drive I have sitting on foam to keep it quiet. I have a rather large case (Antec Plusview 1000) and still not enough room for everything I want in it. I had to pull a wireless card (not used much anyway) to put in the EMU.

BTW, I run my onboard sound to Logitech Z640s and the 1212M to my headphones and there has been no quirks or issues at all.
 
Oct 22, 2004 at 3:33 AM Post #25 of 28
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Originally Posted by sygyzy
Should I interpret that as the PCI card sits in the second to last spot and the I/O card sits in the very bottom?


Sorry I wasn't so clear
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They're in the two slots furthest from the AGP slot with the I/O card being closest. Just "old school" positioning...as far away from the PSU and video card as possible.
 
Oct 31, 2004 at 10:03 PM Post #27 of 28
The reason I asked was because I read that you should put it in a slot that has it's own (rather than shared) interupt. I wasn't sure which one that was and wanted to see where people had the best luck. Since then I've figured it out (second from the bottom for ASUS A7N8X Deluxe)
 
Nov 1, 2004 at 3:26 AM Post #28 of 28
You nailed it. Sygyzy. I've been readning some more on it and it appears that the A7N8X suffers from PCI latency issues with the onboard RAID.

One of the more simple solutions is to use a PCI slot that has it's own IRQ and tweak the latency values if needed. This is suppose to clear up the "hash", (pops and crackling), that some people were experiencing during audio playback and recording. Good call.
 
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