MikoLayer
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well i realize you brought up that example just to give him an idea of what damage on board sound can do with their high cpu utilization. but it got me wondering - why would anyone buy intel cpus over a64 these days? the only thing intels were good for were mpeg4 enconding, and even that is no longer true with the newer 939 sockets.
here is a little doom3 comparison with a graphical chart
one would have to be either exremely stupid or fanboish to buy any intel product at the moment, with the lower end being dominated by mobile bartons as well. of course it doesnt pertain those who had no choice due to some explicable reasons
Originally Posted by Eagle_Driver I was talking about older onboard solutions when I made that post. I have not had any experience with onboard audio at all whatsoever since the early Pentium III days - I have always used a separate PCI soundcard, and turned off all onboard audio. By the way, maybe performance has improved since the last time I tried onboard. But some onboard solutions still have problems with sound either cutting out or becoming stuttery or choppy in games. That is a driver issue - and even so, some companies refused to update their drivers. (But then again, the Sound Blaster series have had some audio issues with some of the newest games such as Doom 3.) And yes, I did exaggerate the performance loss with onboard sound (the currently in use ones such as the Analog Devices SoundMAX). Realistically, the performance hit would be the equivalent of bringing down a 3.4GHz P4/GF6800U combo to about the level of a 3.0 to 3.2 GHz P4 with a GF6800GT card. That's hardly worth complaining about, in this case. |
well i realize you brought up that example just to give him an idea of what damage on board sound can do with their high cpu utilization. but it got me wondering - why would anyone buy intel cpus over a64 these days? the only thing intels were good for were mpeg4 enconding, and even that is no longer true with the newer 939 sockets.
here is a little doom3 comparison with a graphical chart
one would have to be either exremely stupid or fanboish to buy any intel product at the moment, with the lower end being dominated by mobile bartons as well. of course it doesnt pertain those who had no choice due to some explicable reasons