Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > Other Components > Which is better the P6T Deluxe V2 (MB) built in soundcard... Or

Which is better the P6T Deluxe V2 (MB) built in soundcard... Or

Forum CPU & Components : Other Components - Which is better the P6T Deluxe V2 (MB) built in soundcard... Or

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
kingcody187   11-12-2009 at 11:26:12 PM

which is better the P6T Deluxe V2 (MB) built in soundcard... Or the Creative sound blaster X-Fi Titanium? . . .

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
tortnotes   11-13-2009 at 12:25:22 AM

I can only say that the motherboard sound is pretty good. That sound card is probably a little better, but unless there's some critical feature I wouldn't say it's $80 better.

Reply to tortnotes
fazers_on_stun   11-13-2009 at 02:45:20 AM

Onboard sound quality is generally good, but if you believe the Creative propaganda - subject to noise, less capable, uses CPU resources, etc etc . Personally I have an X-Fi Platinum but it sits in my parts drawer because my onboard Realtek HD audio is more than adequate for me, esp. coupled to my Klipsch speaker system :).

Creative bundles a ton of software with their cards, but most of these are toy apps that you'll probably stop using after a short while. If you're serious about sound quality, there's better cards than Creative anyway.

------------------------------ jennyh wrote: AMD break-even Q4 2009. *Gauranteed* - And she's probably right! :D
 Reply to fazers_on_stun
LePhuronn   11-13-2009 at 03:53:04 AM

And get the P6TD Deluxe instead of the P6T Deluxe V2 - improved board design using Asus Xtreme Design technology.

Reply to LePhuronn
buwish   11-13-2009 at 04:03:24 AM

Onboard sound has a propensity to use CPU cycles to operate, while a stand alone card does not. I've always gone with a stand alone sound card because I think it sounds better and keep the onboard sound from hogging up the CPU. Granted, that's just me, as I am sure that others will disagree. If you are a gamer, a stand alone card like the titanium will potentially speed your gaming experience a few FPS by freeing up the CPU just a bit more. I have the x-fi titanium and I love it; sounds great and loaded with some usable features.

Message quoted 1 times
------------------------------ -Kevin
Desktop: Q9400(stock,lapped,SpinTechQ)/Intel DP43TF/VTEK 4850(512)/8GB DDR2 800Mhz/X-Fi Titanium Pro/Liteon BD-ROM/Velociraptor/Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Laptop: Little Toshiba Satellite (M305)/T6400/4GB DDR2 800Mhz/Windows 7 RC 64-bit (for now
 Reply to buwish
fazers_on_stun   11-13-2009 at 06:57:00 PM

buwish wrote :

Onboard sound has a propensity to use CPU cycles to operate, while a stand alone card does not. I've always gone with a stand alone sound card because I think it sounds better and keep the onboard sound from hogging up the CPU. Granted, that's just me, as I am sure that others will disagree. If you are a gamer, a stand alone card like the titanium will potentially speed your gaming experience a few FPS by freeing up the CPU just a bit more. I have the x-fi titanium and I love it; sounds great and loaded with some usable features.



That was true back in the 486 or early Pentium days, but modern 2.5+ GHZ multicore CPUs are barely loaded by sound-processing tasks. You can easily test this by playing some MP3 tune with all the sound & room effects enabled and then checking task manager's system resource usage. Also, remember than an iPod or other music player has to use a comparatively weak CPU to process MP3 decoding & playback, in order to conserve battery life. So that alone should be a big clue as to how much processing power it takes.

I haven't noticed any difference in gaming or quality or anything else since I pulled the X-Fi out of my rig and used the Realtek onboard HD audio on my 690i mobo and QX6700 CPU.

------------------------------ jennyh wrote: AMD break-even Q4 2009. *Gauranteed* - And she's probably right! :D
 Reply to fazers_on_stun
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > Other Components > Which is better the P6T Deluxe V2 (MB) built in soundcard... Or
Go to:

There are 906 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.169 seconds
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them