Asus A7N8X without Deluxe

[ariker]

Hello everybody,
Does Asus A7N8X without Deluxe have apu?

 

[TKH]

no.

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[umheint0]

Actually it does. It has "Realtek® ALC650 6CH w/built in HP amplifier", according to the Asus website. The difference between this and the Deluxe is that this one only has 2-channel processing, where the deluxe has real-time 5.1 channel Dolby decoding.

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[r2k]

No, it doesn't have the APU (Audio Processing Unit).

And FWIW the Realtek ALC650 is a codec chip, not a sound 'processor'. It doesn't have hardware support for any sort of popular 3D sound APIs or other fancy/professional effects (unlike for example the Creative/EMU chips used on Creative cards, Crystal 46xx chips on the TBSC or Hercules Fortissimo 2/3 or the nForce/2 APU itself). That's why its performance is so much lower than the others in games (any sort of effect processing is done by the system's CPU). Ah and BTW it's in fact a 5.1 solution.

 

[Traqr]

... it just needs an add-in from Asus to get the other channels. Seriously, spend the extra money for a Soundstorm board, or at least one with a fully-enabled MCP-T chip.

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