Try it and see if you notice problems. Static or other distortion. When I ran a nForce4 system with an Audigy 2, I would usually notice it in OpenAL games. Quake 4 seems to come to mind.

My Audigy 2 ZS Platinum and Razer AC-1 both seem to work alright enough in my Asus A8N, but I've not tried many (if any?) OpenAL games with them. If you run into issues though, there'd probably be no workaround aside from dumping the nForce 4 for another chipset (e.g. another motherboard).

The only workaround idea I have is adjusting PCI latency of the sound card. There's a utility called PCI Latency Tool that lets you do this within Windows. This can help with sound problems. You essentially give the card more time to control the PCI bus.

Is PCE-e affected as well?

silikone wrote:

Is PCE-e affected as well?

AFAIK, and based on the Wikipedia as well, no it is not. That having been said, I've not tried a PCIe sound-card on my NF4 board. Graphics cards seem to have no issues though (even my notoriously picky 3DLabs REALiZM card). 😊

If you mean about the PCI Latency Tool, it is not applicable to PCIe (they're quite separate), but it can affect AGP cards per its documentation.

obobskivich wrote:

silikone wrote:

Is PCE-e affected as well?

AFAIK, and based on the Wikipedia as well, no it is not. That having been said, I've not tried a PCIe sound-card on my NF4 board. Graphics cards seem to have no issues though (even my notoriously picky 3DLabs REALiZM card). 😊

That's good news, I have an X-Fi Titanium to dust off.