imperialreign
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System Name | УльтраФиолет |
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Processor | Intel Kentsfield Q9650 @ 3.8GHz (4.2GHz highest achieved) |
Motherboard | ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi; X38 NSB, ICH9R SSB |
Cooling | Delta V3 block, XPSC res, 120x3 rad, ST 1/2" pump - 10 fans, SYSTRIN HDD cooler, Antec HDD cooler |
Memory | Dual channel 8GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 @ 1800MHz @ 7-7-7-20 1T |
Video Card(s) | Quadfire: (2) Sapphire HD5970 |
Storage | (2) WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA-300; WD 320GB SATA-300; WD 200GB UATA + WD 160GB UATA |
Display(s) | Samsung Syncmaster T240 24" (16:10) |
Case | Cooler Master Stacker 830 |
Audio Device(s) | Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro PCI-E x1 |
Power Supply | Kingwin Mach1 1200W modular |
Software | Windows XP Home SP3; Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 |
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Did you have a look at this imperial?
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=76348
Its pretty cool,you can force the digital out to dts/ac3 mode.I tried it on my amp and it works great.Its great for watching film,even sounds good on games.
that's pretty interesting . . . using ASIO completely bypasses the drivers and the dolby encoding lock . . . we've known for some time now that all X-Fis have been capable of encoding, it's just the drivers have that feature locked up . . . that's a nice work-around. So, I'm guessing then it uses a generic ASIO driver and not Creative's ASIO . . .
Just a sample from testing the Titanium vs. the Fatal1ty, CPU utilization in DirectSound3D mode + EAX:
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
the Titanium on average requires half the amount of CPU use as the PCI based Fatal1ty - IMO, this shows how well the native PCIE Titanium can capitalize off of the PCIE bandwidth . . . the more information it can move per clock cycle, the less it has to interupt the system BUS.
Although I don't have any software to really prove it, I'd believe this hints to lower audio processing latencies. Although the CA20K2 is practically the same as the CA201K in terms of processing ability, the reduction in system wait times would lend itself to the notion that the APU is now capable of handling the per-clock work load that it was originally desinged to handle.