Ac97

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Hello

I wanna buy a new motherboard with sound on-board AC97

I wanna know if this sound/codec works fine with epsxe, VGS and any other system emulator.:confused:



P.s : sorry for my bad English:emb:

[Shiori]

I guess every value board nowadays come with AC97 sound, and in my experience alll the emus and PC games work great. :) Don't worry about XP drivers though, the Win2k ones that come with the CD work just fine. :)

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Thank you a lot Shiori,

Now i can buy this motherboard with no-remorse:D

[Shiori]

It doesn't support DirectX hardware acceleration, though.

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excuse-me but i don't know much about emulators...

A soundboard that don't support DirectX hardware acceleration is a bad sound board?

I mean: DirectX acceleration is "a must" ? :confused:

[Shiori]

no, not really. it's just that if you have an actual sound card, then it definitely has DX hardware accel. If it's onboard, it's a "software soundcard", so obviously no hardware accel.

In effect, what you get out of AC97 is basic sound. If you're an audiophile, I'd suggest you get a separate card.

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I don't know...
If this soundboard has the sound clear and pure and no noises, i can handle with that for now.:)

In fact i don't know if MSI K7T266 Pro2 has the onboard-sound optional because the site don't say that.

Because of this i'm so afraid of the sound:)

[Shiori]

K7Ts have acceptable AC97 sound, or so i hear from friends who has that kind of board.

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:) Thank you again Shiori:)

thanx for all the help





:) time to sleep:)