Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Vs Soud Blaster Live 5..1 FPS wise ?

[We Live for the One we Die for the One]

I hear Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS will be alot better FPS wise than a
LIVE, is this true anyone dome some head to head reviews ?


Could prolong my PC a little while if i can get 20 fps more from games
byt just adding a better sound card.

Thanks.

 

[CrimsonLiar]

Regards the extra FPS from updating the video card, yes you will get more
FPS from a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS compared to a Soundblaster Live 5.1,
maybe in the order of 5% to 10%, but little more I doubt.

I love the flexibility of my Soundblaster 2 ZS Platinum Pro, but if you
really want to increase your performance (and audio quality) I'd suggest
getting a Nvidia based motherboard with onboard SoundStorm audio and a new
(more powerfull CPU). Those motherboards work superbly with ATi Graphics,
and the sound quality/flexibility is miles ahead of your SBLive.

CrimsonLiar

 

[We Live for the One we Die for the One]

Any AMD 64 mobos with soundstorm ???

How about just a normal soundcard with soundstorm ?

Thanks.

 

[Odie]

I just upgraded from a P4 system with a live card to an Abit SocketA nforce2
with soundstorm audio (NF7-S) and I can verify indeed what CrimsonLiar says
is accurate. The onboard sound is better quality and performance....by far.
I'm very happy with it!!

 

[CrimsonLiar]

As of yet Nvidia havent included Soundstorm on any AMD64 mobos, though they
did release a picture that suggested a soundstorm PCI card was a
possibility. Alas thats all folks...

CrimsonLiar

 

[We Live for the One we Die for the One]

Yeah ive hear some reviews, but iam not getting a new boards as yet so
ill Stick with a Audidgy 2 ZS it aint htta bad right

And with a set of Logitec Z-5300s i should be ok.

 

[Shaun]

Yeah ive hear some reviews, but iam not getting a new boards as yet so

ill Stick with a Audidgy 2 ZS it aint htta bad right

And with a set of Logitec Z-5300s i should be ok.

I wouldnt go ditching an Audigy for Soundstorm .. unless I really needed the
realtime dolby 5.1 encoding. Audigy has the EAX3 which SS doesn't, and about
the same CPU usage I believe.. Maybe the audigy2 is even less CPU hungry
than nv soundstorm.

 

[Daniel Czajko]

I wouldnt go ditching an Audigy for Soundstorm .. unless I really needed the
realtime dolby 5.1 encoding. Audigy has the EAX3 which SS doesn't, and about
the same CPU usage I believe.. Maybe the audigy2 is even less CPU hungry
than nv soundstorm.

There is more, All Audigy cards have a new driver update that gives them
EAX 4 capability (win XP only, I think). Just download the driver update
from Creative. Very nice since Creative doesn't license EAX above 2 to
anyone. I can't blame them. So you won't get EAX 3 or 4 out of any other
card

 

[Blahguy]

There is more, All Audigy cards have a new driver update that gives them
EAX 4 capability (win XP only, I think). Just download the driver update
from Creative. Very nice since Creative doesn't license EAX above 2 to
anyone. I can't blame them. So you won't get EAX 3 or 4 out of any other
card

IMHO EAX is over-rated. I have never had a game where it worked to my
satisfaction. Always some screech, or bleep, or worse some kind of feedback
loop, or effects that sound out of place (not to mention the performance
hits). Based on my experiences I wouldn't waste money on an EAX 3 or 4 card.
Surround sound is good enough for me

 

[We Live for the One we Die for the One]

Yeah an A3D card disk Creatives BUTTTT wish they were still arround
A3D 5.0 by now

Still got my old Vortex 2, never had it on 5.1 to try it out realy
well.

See ya.

 

[Darthy]

Yeah an A3D card disk Creatives BUTTTT wish they were still arround
A3D 5.0 by now

Still got my old Vortex 2, never had it on 5.1 to try it out realy
well.

Yeah... those A3D cards really kicked ass.... to bad they lost it,
they were giving CL a run for their money, I still have my old
one.... not being used.


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[We Live for the One we Die for the One]

If i win lotto or enherit a few hundred million ill buy back the tech
off CL and make the cards again and get ride of EAX which sucks BADLY,
3d sound where ?