Creative’s Audio Chips Gain Popularity Among Mainboard Makers

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Reply 20 of 23, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-08-11, 17:36

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I'd be more worried about latency on a USB sound card than anything else...

Reply 21 of 23, by avatar_58

Posted on 2005-08-12, 00:43

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I'd be worried about damage done to the card by clumsy fools who might come into my room and poke at it.

Reply 22 of 23, by Snover

Posted on 2005-08-12, 01:38

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*poke*
Oops 😀

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 23 of 23, by swaaye

Posted on 2005-08-12, 18:37

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The USB products are pretty good, as long as you don't want to game with them 😀 The CPU utilization is horrible with them. USB of course is the culprit as it's just bad bad bad for the CPU. They are ok until the number of sound channels starts shooting up like it will in games, and if you use EAX or DS3D as they are all software-based.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/d … tive-sbmp3.html
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1473855,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,14302,00.asp

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