What sound Do I have?

I bought the Gigabyte 7NNXP listed in:

http://www.tomshardware.com/mother [...] 00-14.html

It seems to be a very good card, my question is, what sound do I have.
I read the test:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/20030405/index.html

But my 7NNXP motherboard have both the Realtek ALC650 Chip and the The nForce2 MCP-T listed in the soundtest.

check out the feature list:
http://www.tomshardware.com/mother [...] 00-34.html

So, what sound chip do I really have?

What does all this mean?

I am confused. Anyone know?

I havent installed it yet, I am waiting for the processor and it seems like I wont get it until friday.

Thank you for your answer. How will I then know that I use the superior Nforce Audio and not the slower realtek chip?

By reading the manual I get the impression that I can choose which soundchip to use by either connecting the audiocable directly to the motherboard or use the spdif-thingie:
http://www.tomshardware.com/mother [...] -audio.jpg

Thanks for your time.

If you use analog, you're using both. The MCP-T is a DIGITAL sound processor, it does things like 3D imaging and so forth. All the Realtec codec does is divide that combined digital signal into separate analog signals.

If you use S/PDIF output, you take the digital signal directly from the MCP-T. If you use the analog outputs, you take the digital signal from the MCP-T THROUGH the Realtech codec.

So you see that either way you're getting sound from the MCP-T. All digital soundcards, even the Audigy 2, use codecs for converting the combined digital signal into separate analog signals.

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