Soundstorm not dead?

**Kane** · October 25th, 2004

Obviously this being the enqurer, a considerable amount of salt is required, but: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19265

**Knuckles** · October 25th, 2004

get updated, the nforce 4 chips (Athlon 64) will have Soundstorm 2, along with AGP8X OR 1X PCI Express OR SLI PCI Express (2x) (GF6800 SLI)

**Kane** · October 25th, 2004

I was given to understand all the nForce 4 chipsets will use Realtek audio for 5.1/6.1 sound as they deemed the soundstorm too expensive to produce.

**Knuckles** · October 26th, 2004

oh ****, just looked at some stuff about that, that s*cks.... too bad we can't use the soundstorm audio we already have on our mobo

Will have to get a Soundblaster card (since onboard Realtek/normal AC'97 is a ****), ewwwww

All that because they can't pay for the Dolby fees, which would make the Mobo too expensive , damnit, it wasn't that expensive on nforce2, why would it be for the nforce4 ???

RF · October 26th, 2004

A while back they were thinking of producing add-in cards like creative. Who knows

**Knuckles** · October 26th, 2004

Yeah, I was thinking about that too, it would be great but only like if they made a special "nV Audio slot" on motherboards with nforce chipsets , so you can get a soundstorm card, if you upgrade form a nforce 2 to nforce 4 for example, and can't afford the soundstorm 2, you take out your soundstorm 1 and put it in

ok, a PCI soundstorm 2 card would be great too

**Kane** · October 26th, 2004

They said they can't do a PCI version of it as there ain't enough bandwidth..... PCX might change that tho.

October 25th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Soundstorm not dead? Obviously this being the enqurer, a considerable amount of salt is required, but: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19265 __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

October 25th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Knuckles Beta Tester Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Floating Island Posts: 99	get updated, the nforce 4 chips (Athlon 64) will have Soundstorm 2, along with AGP8X OR 1X PCI Express OR SLI PCI Express (2x) (GF6800 SLI) __________________

October 25th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I was given to understand all the nForce 4 chipsets will use Realtek audio for 5.1/6.1 sound as they deemed the soundstorm too expensive to produce. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

October 26th, 2004	#4 (permalink)
Knuckles Beta Tester Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Floating Island Posts: 99	oh ***, just looked at some stuff about that, that scks.... too bad we can't use the soundstorm audio we already have on our mobo Will have to get a Soundblaster card (since onboard Realtek/normal AC'97 is a ****), ewwwww All that because they can't pay for the Dolby fees, which would make the Mobo too expensive , damnit, it wasn't that expensive on nforce2, why would it be for the nforce4 ??? __________________

October 26th, 2004	#5 (permalink)
RF Canadian Spaceman Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 8,594	A while back they were thinking of producing add-in cards like creative. Who knows __________________

October 26th, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Knuckles Beta Tester Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Floating Island Posts: 99	Yeah, I was thinking about that too, it would be great but only like if they made a special "nV Audio slot" on motherboards with nforce chipsets , so you can get a soundstorm card, if you upgrade form a nforce 2 to nforce 4 for example, and can't afford the soundstorm 2, you take out your soundstorm 1 and put it in ok, a PCI soundstorm 2 card would be great too __________________

October 26th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	They said they can't do a PCI version of it as there ain't enough bandwidth..... PCX might change that tho. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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