After a little swapping with my brother, I'm now in need of a (preferably cheap) sound card to cure my headaches. (Read: SBLive! 5.1) Found this Chaintech card at Newegg using the Envy24HT chipset. Just because of that fact I would assume the sound quality is very good. (Previously I had a Revo) Does anyone have any experience with one of these? Or an alternative?
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VIA's mainboard chipsets suck because of bandwidth and burst mode issues that have been in there since the MVP. Patch 'em all you want but....
VIA's IEEE-1394 chipsets have sucked for years. Now it's said they've "fixed" them, but without marking the new versions
Just based on these I wouldn't buy anything with a VIA chipset in it.
Dr. MordridLast edited by Dr Mordrid; 4 September 2003, 16:43.Dr. Mordrid
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Well, it's basically just rebadged ICEnsamble, (bought by VIA) which I don't think VIA have mucked up yet.
Otherwise, I wouldn't consider it.Comment
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Actually, with this particular card they have managed to bork it, given that VIA dacs are used on it...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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Hrmmm, alternatives? I'm thinking about TBSC, as it is getting cheap now.Comment
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FortissimoIII, TSBC, or if you really want to spring for it, MAudio Revolution 7.1...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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I'm considering the Fortissimo III myself, I believe its working well under Linux so maybe BSD too.Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
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