Has anyone ever seen a program, guide, or anything that has overclocked a soundcard. Why do soundcards never feature heatsinks on them? Is the technology in it's baby stage that there is no need to?
In all curiosity... why would you overclock your sound card?
Sound Blaster cards are already unstable at stock speeds... the thing would probably explode if you tried to overclock it.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003
*Geeky gets up, walks over to SimGuy, smacks him upside the head, sits down*
I LIKE my Audigy2, thank you very much!
(just not in ABIT boards with Via chipsets)
Why would you overclock a sound card? What would you gain? As far as I can tell, nothing, and your sound quality would probably be worse, due to errors introduced into the audio stream by overclocking the chip.
There is a patch floating around to turn off the "Turbo" mode enabled by default in the SBLive! series (and maybe later cards). Doing this is supposed to eliminate some of the crackling problems.
Some piece of quality work, where you have to underclock the sucker to make it work...
Why Overclock a Mouse? Why try to push more info through an IDE cable that should be? Why run a CPU at higher then the recommended specs? Why?! BECAUSE WE CAN AND FEEL THE NEED TO?! I've learned to not ask "Why?" anymore and just go with it, if you want to OC a sound card, go for it, just don't come crying when it explodes and takes your PC with it!
Can I overclock my headphones TOO?! *pokes AL* ur so cute.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003
Creep... yeah, you can but if you don't get any benefit out of it, why bother going to the effort? I mean, yeah, the difference between a 2.3GHz Athlon and a 2.5GHz Athlon is only really noticeable in benchmarks (for me, anyhow), but having the 2.5GHz chip gives you more bragging rights. Overclocking a sound card wouldn't even get you that- your sound quality would be worse at the higher clock speed.
Read your post again man, if you call a benchmark and braggin rights a benfit then that's on you. I'm not here to ask "WHY" just say "Ok, just dont complain if you break it!"
He wants the sound to come out faster than the game he's playing so that he's totally out of sync but with the illicit substances running around his head he'll actually be IN sync. That was an easy one =P
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003
Creep, it's a very small benefit, but it is still, IMO a benefit.
Benching a sound card is kinda stupid I think... :grin
Speed is not important when it comes to sound quality is.
IMHO
Keep in mind that sound is still the one of the few things that is not and can not ever be digital.
You can not hear digital...
At some point before the waves hits your ears the digital on's and offs are converted back to analog so that your ears can pick up the wave form...
That is why the true audiophile will tell you that to get the absolute best sound possible is through the old analog tubes...
If anything the problem is that digital can not contain enough information to correctly process an analog wave to its true fourm then convert it back to true analog output...
I don't know I guess that you could try but I don't see any benifit to it....
I would rather see a card benched/reviewd on wave fourm reproduction vs analog rather than the speed of the card....
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Sound Blaster cards are already unstable at stock speeds... the thing would probably explode if you tried to overclock it.
I LIKE my Audigy2, thank you very much!
(just not in ABIT boards with Via chipsets)
Why would you overclock a sound card? What would you gain? As far as I can tell, nothing, and your sound quality would probably be worse, due to errors introduced into the audio stream by overclocking the chip.
Some piece of quality work, where you have to underclock the sucker to make it work...
I can't figure out why you would overclock your sound card, let alone HOW to do it...
To OC a soundcard, just increase the speed of the PCI bus.
Speed is not important when it comes to sound quality is.
IMHO
Keep in mind that sound is still the one of the few things that is not and can not ever be digital.
You can not hear digital...
At some point before the waves hits your ears the digital on's and offs are converted back to analog so that your ears can pick up the wave form...
That is why the true audiophile will tell you that to get the absolute best sound possible is through the old analog tubes...
If anything the problem is that digital can not contain enough information to correctly process an analog wave to its true fourm then convert it back to true analog output...
I don't know I guess that you could try but I don't see any benifit to it....
I would rather see a card benched/reviewd on wave fourm reproduction vs analog rather than the speed of the card....
"g"