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Integrated vs Card - Sounds Cards
Taborious:
Is there a real difference between an integradted sound card versus a pci card? Does the integraded steal CPU time or anything?
Hoopz:
Onboard sound does steal CPU cycles. I know for PC gaming, its advisable to disable onboard sound in order to increase the # of fps.
For MAME, I don't know how much it would affect newer games so I will leave that to another person who is more qualified. For older games, I doubt it matters at all.
In my cabinet, I use onboard sound for now FWIW. I have not noticed any problems, but I have not played many newer games.
Taborious:
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...
daveg2000:
I've had 2 different boards with onboard audio - both
stunk where there were skips in sounds.. or
static in background of sounds....
I got PCI audio cards ($14 range) and all is well in the world.
I'll never use onboard.
AlanS17:
I've always used onboard audio without a problem. Using onboard audio may be a hinrance, but it's going to be really hard to guage exactly how much it hurts. I would assume it's negligible. If you're satisfied with the sound coming out of the onboard audio, you're probably ok wiht keeping it. If it sounds bad get a dedicated card.
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