Wow fantastic effort!

Yes! That is quite explosive! Though I can't digest the so many numbers, they must mean something! 😁

And, uh... if not asking too much, is it possible to highlight the best performer and worst performer? (either at the result column or at the name column?)

And I also wonder how the Audigy2 and X-Fi will perform in this setting.

Anyway, great work there, keropi! I'm sure people can refer to this chart for own research and application in practice 😉

thanks guys!
Sadly I no longer have a pci x-fi or an audigy card... For the x-fi I doubt I could test it in winME due to driver lack.
The worst/best is already colored Malik, in each line there are red numbers (worst) , black numbers (mid-range) and blue numbers (best) , so in each test you can easily see the best and worst performer 😀

Ooops...thanks keropi. 😁

Did you guys know an AWE can supposedly accelerate a few Directsound static buffers? It can store samples in its RAM. But this is practically useless AFAIK.
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/window ... s.85).aspx

AWB99 is interesting but I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate. Take those ES1371 results above. That chip can only process two streams at once in hardware. It also only has the most basic effects.

Try MDK2 benchmarks with the sound enabled, I dare you 😜

leileilol wrote:

Try MDK2 benchmarks with the sound enabled, I dare you 😜

I shall! does the retail MDK2 disc has said benchmark? Also what is your opinion leileilol, do I underclock again to 1.2ghz for MDK2?
I am curious about the outcome of this, audiobench does not necessarily proves anything, real gaming benches are best 😊

All versions of MDK2 have the same benchmark, even the demo! Though the latest patch adds a option to disable sound for benchmark in addition, but what I mean by MDK2 benchmark is PCI vs onboard sound

awesome, I will do some testing tomorrow then

I did some tests today with MDK2 and the system running @1.2ghz.

Except from AC97's worst sound quality there is no performance impact in the game whether one uses the onboard AC97 sound or the Live! or even no sound at all.
That's right, no difference at all.
I used 1280x1024/32bit color, no hardware T&L and Vsync OFF from ForceWare drivers.
I get 95-102fps on the falling stage in the start and ~100-112fps in the 1st level room while moving around.

IMHO mdk2 just maxes out on this system. I don't have a p3 system running with onboard audio, I always pick mobos without audio...

Anyone remembers another game that features a performance display or most preferably a benchmark option? (Like Devil May Cry 4 has, that would be ideal)

Serious Sam
UT2003
Quake3-based games can be timedemoed
3DMark03 includes an FMOD-engine audio benchmark with DX7-level 3D rendering

swaaye I am looking on Serious Sam atm, can't find the benchmark option?
also downloading 3dmark03 to check it too since it could be better in providing a report

Do a web search on Serious Sam benchmarking. I'm not sure how it works offhand but the game has various demo modes.