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RayB:
Ignoring the CPU cycle debate, my experience with on-board audio has never been good. To anyone who claims they hear no difference, I suggest you put on headphones. You will be amazed at the amount of noise, buzzing, pops you hear. And the worst part is when you move your mouse around, the noises increase.

SOAPboy:

--- Quote from: RayB on July 30, 2005, 12:10:42 pm ---Ignoring the CPU cycle debate, my experience with on-board audio has never been good. To anyone who claims they hear no difference, I suggest you put on headphones. You will be amazed at the amount of noise, buzzing, pops you hear. And the worst part is when you move your mouse around, the noises increase.



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Again, depends on board..

Hell my Ic7-G onboard was GREAT until recently.. "basic" sound, i havent noticed to much of a difference.. but there has been a little performance increase (very little) and i have nicer reverb now :P
USSEnterprise:

--- Quote from: Taborious on July 29, 2005, 04:38:34 pm ---I'm trying to streamline my MAME machine for some CHD games. I'm looking at stripping down the XP "kernel" as it were (services) and trying to get as much horsepower as I can out of it. From a CHD post I had a week or so ago the CHD's need CPU and lots of it for some of the games. going to try to eliminate all uneccasary services and disable the NIC remove norton AV basically anything that will take CPU from MAME. also running mame32 under mamewah I need to switch that to just mame...

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There is this program called "EndItAll" Which kills all unnecessary processes in Windows. I use it when I run MAME and other very graphics intensive games.
beek:
Check this link out for a comparison.

http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20030405/
AlanS17:

--- Quote from: beek on July 30, 2005, 05:09:58 pm ---Check this link out for a comparison.

http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20030405/

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Well no wonder. That's with 3D audio. Emulation doesn't use anything of the sort. It doesn't take that kind of power. Similarly to the way a fancy graphics card won't help you in MAME, neither will fancy audio.

If you're concerned about audio causing a problem, drop your sample rate. Don't bother getting a seperate card.
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