OMFG!
this is too cool!
i been reading and reading tons of info on modding my sound cards.....
it all started when i was trying to monitor mic-in (with it being monitored) in ableton live 7 and source forge 9....
this is where i learned about "LATENCY" and asio4all....
i basically have 4 different sound cards and for the last 2 weeks SOLID i been trying different combinations.... of hardware and drivers and OS`s....
here are my sound cards.
nforce 2 onboard sound (ALC650) with "SOUNDSTORM APU"
nforce 4 onboard sound (ALC850)
sb live value (CT4830 which is actually the CT4832) (the non 5.1)
sb audigy ls
2 of the cards i listed above can be changed into other cards through softmods
the sb live i was looking at the "hardmod here"
http://www.damsbo.com/soundblaster/sbmod.htm
with any sb live (CT4830) mod can it turn my 4.1 sound card into a 5.1 that uses the digital out? i have a dolby digital reciever and it has the optical and coax connecors.
ok now onto the audigy to x-fi softmod.
has anyone done any benchmarks to see how much work gets off loaded to your CPU?
i mean how bad is the hit for eax4/eax5 being done on the cpu instead of the actual audio card?
and last but not least WHERE IN THE HELL IS THE DDL
give me DDL OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!
i am lucky enough to have a soundstorm apu but guess what....its an nforce2 mboard with a socket A chip (xp2600+)
so well....for todays games it blows chunks!
so here is what i have to do to get minimal latency while gaming with 5.1.
the soundstorm computer has to have winme installed (for latency....its better then winxp and win vista and linux and soundstorm apu dont work with DDL the apu out works but not ddl)
ok so then i take my gaming computer (the nforce4 with the ALC850) and i take its ac97 speaker-out(green connector) and put it into the soundstorm computers line-in (blue connector) then i hook the optical out from that same to computer to my reciever optical in....
it actually works GREAT!!! i mean not even 10ms of latency....it works great...
ok but i have a BIG problem.
my dad is a singer in a classic/soft rock band....and im going to give him the nforce2 computer just because it has the lowest latency when using mic-in to record vocals (while monitoring is on)
so now i loose my 5.1 ddl realtime encoder for my gaming...and i am a bigtime gamer...
what do i do.....well there is no DDL for the sb live 4.1 right (CT4830/CT4832) but there is a mod for 5.1 at the link i posted above....there is a softmod also for that very card that makes it into the "The P17 to Xtreme Audio mod"....and also the kX drivers too...note i didnt like those...very hard to understand UI.
what i am basically asking is the sb live value has the 10kemu chip....and the audigy ls has the a piece of crap chip dont it?
which card is better to throw in my gaming system?
to me....i never really cared so much about EAX as i do about 5.1 gaming...
which card is more powerfull? which card uses less CPU cycles when its fullymodded with current softmod drivers?
my system is asus A8N32-SLI-DELUXE with 2gigs memory and an amd x2 4200+ oc to 2.65ghz with dual 8800GTS G92s in SLI.
maybe my onboard ALC 850 is better then the sb live (ct4830/ct4832) or the (audigy ls)
idk
i would like to be using the best of what i have....im really not sure what that is...
with the sb live (ct4830/ct4832) hard mod that turns it into a real sb live 5.1 right? where the digital out connector will send 5.1 signal to my reciever if i played a AC3 movie or does the mod only make the analog spdif out working on the internal connector?
does the softmod for that card just make it so i dont have to program the eeprom but it would be exactly same cpu usage if we benchmarked the softmod vs the hardmod?
same for the audigy ls into the x-fi...if we benchmarked the x-fi that we turn the audigy ls into vs the real card....how bad a hit are we taking having it done if software....or is anything really being done in software....
what i mean by this....in that article for the sblive 4.1 into a sb live 5.1 its just 1 address in the eeprom that gets changed to tell the driver what card it is.....so i bet the real retail sb live 5.1 vs the modded sb live 4.1 would bench EXACTLY the same since it is the same hardware.
with the softmod for the sb live 4.1 to "The P17 to Xtreme Audio mod" is that just changing the .inf to install the sb live 5.1 driver for the sb live 4.1 so it would ALSO benchmark the same as a real retail sb live 5.1?
ok same thing for the audigy ls vs x-fi extreme audio mod......if you benchmark the softmoded audigy ls as a x-ft extreme audio vs a retail x-fi extreme audio.....do they benchmark the same or what?
there is really no info on these modded drivers (hardmod or softmod) that shows benchmarks of any sort....
can some people reports back with some more info?
one last thing if you skipped through this post (and are reading what i just wrote) go read the whole thing because there is good questions in it for EVERYONE to know...
instead of (it works) or (it didnt work).....
