[skinnie]

Hi, anyone can explain me what are the benefits of having a dual soundcard system?
For example having for music my sound card,and for gaves let's say an sound blaster 5.1,will the live improve anything?it only have eax2.0 like my aureon right?
I heard something that envy24 cards don't have hardware accleration for games..is this true?
sorry about my english

 

[skeeder]

you put them in SLI!

ROFL....

 

[skinnie]

looooll

10.2 systems

double of the fps

48bits

 

[Joshatdot]

Alot here seem to recommend dual cards, or a USB Sound Card/DAC for music and a X-Fi for gaming.

 

[skinnie]

but if the creative card is a live it doesn't make sense or does?

 

[terrymx]

i use my onboard card and my emu1212m. Onboard for gaming, and E-mu for music listening, since it has problems with a few games and doesn't have mic input.

Basicly first I go to 'Sound and Audios Devices' in Control Panel and set my onboard as the primary card and the primary recording (for the mic).

If I have an amp with only one input, then I have to connect my onboard card to the E-mu, either via digital or analog line. If there will be sample rate incompatibilities, then its better to use analog.

Now I go to Foobar and set the Output Primary to be the Emu.

Therefor music playing will be Emu1212 through foobar, but everything else will be the onboard transmitted to the emu. For movies, the software Media Player Classic can switch soundcards.

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For dual, it is possible for the two soundcard to output sounds at the sametimes, so you can have some kind of software that utilize it, like... 10 channels.

 

[skinnie]

but for example,using the onboard for me is almost pointless no?the onboard will do the effects with the software right?just as the aureon...I have nforce 2 soundstorm onboard (realtek alc650 codec)

 

[skeeder]

I honestly wouldn't worry about it...which ever card you use as the default in windows is the one that it will run effects through...so if your default is Soundstorm then you could setup JUST the other card for music or something...

But you cannot have one card doing EAX effects and outputing from the other card.

 

[skinnie]

I guess I'll stay only with the terratec
edit: today I saw some thread abotu the soundstorm and the cpu utilization is very low even compared to and sb live,and as I have connections for headphones,I'll put them in my mainboard,and try to use soundstorm for games and terratec for sound,I'll give a try and post results =)