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Re: Acrylic 2003 build (January 2024)

One question, why woukd you need a secondary sound cad if your motherboard already has spdif out? 🤔 I want to enjoy NVIDIA SoundStorm Dolby audio in my headphones but I also want to avoid onboard Realtek codec analog circuitry as well as bulky external audio hardware. Terratec SiXPack 5.1+ (CS4297A …

Re: EAX appreciation thread

And while I haven't tested NFS4 under WinXP, I did try Baldur's Gate 2. That game loses some occlusion effects when WDM drivers are used, and therefore sounds slightly worse under WinXP. It's not a huge deal, but those occlusion effects are kinda neat when enemies are off-screen or behind closed …

Re: EAX appreciation thread

And while I haven't tested NFS4 under WinXP, I did try Baldur's Gate 2. That game loses some occlusion effects when WDM drivers are used, and therefore sounds slightly worse under WinXP. It's not a huge deal, but those occlusion effects are kinda neat when enemies are off-screen or behind closed …

Re: EAX appreciation thread

I first saw the WDM vs. VxD discrepancy in one of Phil's videos, where he makes a direct comparison between the two using NFS3. Can't remember in which video exactly he does that, but the difference is noticeable. Found the video . It's in Phil's SBLive review, around the 7 minute mark. He was …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

A001 wrote on 2022-11-12, 15:52: I've stashed nearly all the beige and quirky hardware away and this is the machine that gets most use, as it simply works. Really clean build, would you mind to share the Brand/Model of that case? (I suppose its still available new?) Cheers

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