well I was deff blown away by the sound of a dvd I had in the pc but I played ut2k3 for a few minutes and the onboard seemed to be missing that umph the audigy 1 had. I'll mess some more with the settings and see what I can do.
I had two SB Live! Value cards which sounded like a bowl of Rice Krispies with heavy amplification. A few months back my bro-in-law told me that a tenant had left a box of computer parts after he moved out, mentioning that there were some sound cards among the other stuff.
There were some real goodies in there, but the sound cards turned out to be three SB Live 5.1's.
LOL.. well I never had the crackle problem with it. My stable over clocks are no longer stable so I'm deff going back to the audigy x gamer. it could be a driver related issue but I'm going after that coveted 2.7ghz oc, don't want to add another thing to trouble shoot.
I think becouse it's an audigy x gamer it sounds a little better in games. Like i said though I was very impressed with the audio from a dvd. THere is no guestion in my mind that the onboard lives up to the hype.
The Audigy's are funny. Mine worked fine on my KT266A based board, but ran terribly on my nForce 2. I think it's all down to what setup you have. The luck of the draw if you will.
No doubt creative is a big piece of poo. There stuff can be great if it works. That 300mb cd you have to have to update your driver is the biggest bunch of nonsence I have ever seen. The reason I have this card is a bud of mine upgraded and sold it to me for 30 bucks. I've been lucky so far with it working great on 3 mobos. The only other creative card I had was with my old kt7a-raid mobo. Nuthing but snap crackle pop there. I ended up replacing it woth a santa cruiz card.
I just recently bought an NF7-S specificically for the SoundStorm, but I haven't gotten the ****** thing to work yet...anyone else had trouble getting theirs to kick in, and if so, how'd you fix it? I'm currently running a SBLive 5.1 just to make due, but I'd really like to kick it into overdrive with the APU.
System:
NF7-S
Cempron 2800+
512MB DDR
Windows XP <<<I think that might be the culprit
I've tried everything from checking drivers to reinstalling XP to resetting everything from the ground-up (hardware that is), and so far, nuth. The most frustrating part is that its been that way 'out-of-the-box'. I can activate it, but nothing sees it as being there. No hardware conflicts, it quite literally fails ot show up...unless XP is thinking its something else and,satisfactory to itself, installing improper drivers... The only thing that does show up as conflicted hardware is a 'SATALink Driver Accelerator', but its both hidden and unchangable (no software solutions seem available). Its got me positively baffled, and I'd hate to think that my board was faulty, but am begining to wonder if it might be.
I take it that the onboard sound is enabled in bios then?
Yes, that's the baffling part...only thing I haven't done is try to use direct addressing to see if I can make windows see it, but to do that I'd need to know the ins and outs of the APU, which I don't have, nor do I know where to get them...*shrugs*
It's possible you have a lemon board. Now that I think about it, one of the NF2 based boards I have has broken sound just like yours. Call ABit, and they'll replace it for you.
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sound storm rules....
Gobbes
(my factless fanboy post of the day)
There were some real goodies in there, but the sound cards turned out to be three SB Live 5.1's.
Can you say "ebay"?
LOL.. well I never had the crackle problem with it. My stable over clocks are no longer stable so I'm deff going back to the audigy x gamer. it could be a driver related issue but I'm going after that coveted 2.7ghz oc, don't want to add another thing to trouble shoot.
I think becouse it's an audigy x gamer it sounds a little better in games. Like i said though I was very impressed with the audio from a dvd. THere is no guestion in my mind that the onboard lives up to the hype.
Cheers
System:
NF7-S
Cempron 2800+
512MB DDR
Windows XP <<<I think that might be the culprit