Onboard audio Vs Decated sound card

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chanster said:
I know Front bay degrades audio quality.....i have said in many posts......Here GTRZ recommended a sound card(To his friend) which is really NOT WORTH spending 130$.......He imagined that it will make a difference........

N macho no offense.....Please dont post stuff which is not relevant to the quoted post......

no actually what he ment was...
he needs that IO ports in that bay..
i dont think the card it self has that much of inputs..?
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    chanster said:
    This explains you dont no anything deep about X-Fi you just went for Fatal1ty because the cover was cool and bla bla......If you recommended that for its looks then its fine.....but if u recommend it because u "thought" spending 130$ would make games so much better then ....need i say more......
    hehe who says X-Ram has no effect at all? And who gonna give front controllers and inputs if i said platinum? front access is a major feature he asked.
    And it is not worthy for you to spend more money for it. but there are people who want it and gonna spend money for it. Its same like your story here you spend lot of money even than the machine it self for the sound upgrade, Its big for you and you feel like money is worth for it. So same like that for others too. Its the amount each person can afford. Now tell a guy who buys a BMW and say you got small performance difference than my Japaneses car so why you paying more.
    Then you will get the answer.
     

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    chanster said:
    Aiyoo macho....all im saying is that Z5500 sounds great with X-fi....not something is better than something........really.....plz dont misunderstand.......

    No machan z5500 not sound great with x-fi. and you can buy something which gives better sound with x-fi for cheap than z5500 :P
     

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    hehe who says X-Ram has no effect at all? And who gonna give front controlers and inputs if i said platinum? front access is a major feature he asked.
    And it is not worthy for you to spend more money for it. but there are people who want it and gonna spend money for it. Its same like your story here you spend lot of money even than the machine it self for the sound upgrade, Its big for you and you feel like money is worth for it. So same like that for others too. Its the money everyone can afford. Now tell a guy who buys a BMW and say you got small performance difference than my Japaneses car so why you paying like 4X more.
    Then you will get the answer.

    Platinum also has the same Front bay without the fatal1ty mark and its 26500(the time i bought it....now its less)......Xram has very little effect......very little.......simply u dun no anything......It is only used for helping in processing audio for some games with openAL base "not really used"..almost completely useless....
     

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    samiram said:
    is it for my post with video.?
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    Year man.....Pioneer is a company which makes High end DVD players n amps etc...where Logitec is mainly a computer speaker company......Obviously Pioneer will win cause their speakers are made to handle a out put from a AMP.......
     

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    chanster said:
    Year man.....Pioneer is a company which makes High end DVD players n amps etc...where Logitec is mainly a computer speaker company......Obviously Pioneer will win cause their speakers are made to handle a out put from a AMP.......

    :confused:
    what ever..
     

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    chanster said:
    Platinum also has the same Front bay without the fatal1ty mark and its 26500(the time i bought it....now its less)......Xram has very little effect......very little.......simply u dun no anything......It is only used for helping in processing audio for some games with openAL base "not really used"..almost completely useless....
    Please read the reviews and tell X-am has no effect at all. I know the effect is not worth the money for you but if he want to spend the money then its up to him. And you are judging it with current games and they are not designed to use that memory. And people bought 64bit processors when there was no 64bit applications remember.
     

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    GTRZ said:
    Please read the reviews and tell X-am has no effect at all. I know the effect is not worth for money now but if he want to spend the money then its up to him. And you are judging it with current games and they are not designed to use that memory. And people bought 64bit processors when there was no 64bit applications remember.

    Ah haa....that is what i want you to understand.........i didnt say "no effect" i said it has very little effect n not worth the money....brovo u understood......
    N front bay is really for marketing perpous.....coz for the price it is tagged with..... you won't get equal benefit...the only benefit you get is extra connection and it degrades audio quality....so, rather than you buy front bay, why don;t you get plantronics switcher which is only $20....to be quite honest i got the platinum cause my bro always plugs in his guitar n records n it sure is a looker........
     

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    Ah haa....that is what i want you to understand.........i didnt say "no effect" i said it has very little effect n not worth the money....brovo u understood......
    N front bay is really for marketing perpous.....coz for the price it is tagged with..... you won't get equal benefit...the only benefit you get is extra connection and it degrades audio quality....so, rather than you buy front bay, why don;t you get plantronics switcher which is only $20....to be quite honest i got the platinum cause my bro always plugs in his guitar n records n it sure is a looker........
    Man remember this when someone like some part of the product and when he asks for it you have to give it no option at all. When you say its not worth or blah blah they ask how much more? then they say who cares no prob go with it.
    Its up to the person who spending the money for what they get. Now the same economical PC guy will say dam chanster spend the price of my PC to buy only the sound card. But its not a problem for you. So its like that.
    And remember he said best gaming machine saving from GTX to GT worth more than the small save from Fatal1ty to Platinum. If he has money and he likes it then it his decision. And you talk bad about X-Ram coz there is no games designed for it now. Old days EAX also same like that and 64bit processors, HT etc.. so don't judge things without thinking about the future.
     

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    Man remember this when someone like some part of the product and when he asks for it you have to give it no option at all. When you say its not worth or blah blah they ask how much more? then they say who cares no prob go with it.
    Its up to the person who spending the money for what you get. Now the same economical PC guy will say dam chanster spend the price of my PC to buy only the sound card. But its not a problem for you. So its like that.
    And remember he said best gaming machine saving from GTX to GT worth more than the small save from Fatal1ty to Platinum. If he has money and he likes it then it his decision. And you talk bad about X-Ram coz there is no games designed for it now. Old days EAX also same like that and 64bit processors, HT etc.. so don't judge things without thinking about the future.

    Yeah this is not the future this is the present.....N even if he wanted to spend you are his friend....what are friends for.......I know its none of my business but think honestly......u made him take that cause u "thought" it will make a difference u didn't actually know what Xram can do then again what the hell...if he wants let him spend.......Dont defend what u did by putting examples like GT n GTX.....Yes same thing with that example also.......i completely agree......but im glad that u got my point.......
     

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    chanster said:
    Simple
    You simply havent experienced true sound.....It depends on the person ...u like vga cards n processors while v are more interested in audio.....
    well man i must say im interested in all of that(vga, proces,audio) but for the time being i haven't bought any sound card. I had change my mother board and processor twice and VGA trice :P(for games of course). And im using reason 4 for sound producing stuff (im not a pro:P) and for that what i do is i get my mini HIFI setup(sony 6000W pmpo) and connect it to the machine then im feeling ok with my on board sound. I have never bothered to buy a sound card. but now im bothering bcuz i need to connect my Keyboard(organ) through MIDI which don't have in my mother board.:P:P
     

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    chanster said:
    Yeah this is not the future this is the present.....N even if he wanted to spend you are his friend....what are friends for.......I know its none of my business but think honestly......u made him take that cause u "thought" it will make a difference u didn't actually know what Xram can do then again what the hell...if he wants let him spend.......Dont defend what u did by putting examples like GT n GTX.....Yes same thing with that example also.......i completely agree......but im glad that u got my point.......
    Hehe i got to say machan your thinking is so dum if you don't think about the future when you buying a computer product then you are almost lost in few months. Man we have tons of examples which they put the hardware first then the software follows it. Its a very common statement that hardware lead and software catchup. They first make the hardware and then developers get the advantage of that to develop new application using that special features or resources gained through the hardware. We have thousands of examples like that and those hardware companies innovate new technology and present it.
    64bit, Dualcore.. There may be no software at that time but sure in the future.
    You can see creative doing lot of buzz abuot there X-Ram and you saying its worthless. Why you thinking only about today?

    I don't need to defend saying GTX or GT coz it has no huge value even in future. But X-Fi Fatality with X-Ram and the normal X-Fi platinum sure has a future difference. When thay make games wich uses X-RAM you will see. Those days games never came with EAX too. But now? hehe

    Okay you don't trust me about X-RAM and Fatality FPS right okay here you go with a review from Guru3d one of the pro gaming review sites. Not like that adsense marketing site you gave us as the review.

    The real deal however kicks in when you buy a Fatality of Elite Pro Edition card. The X-Ram functionally appeals to me. At this moment in time we just can't see the pure benefit of it just yet. As with all new technology the software needs to be patched and made compatible with this new technology. I'm a believer though and I believe this can be a very strong selling point to the gaming audience. I just wish Creative would have made this option scalable. It's utilizing SDRAM, wouldn't it be great to plug in another 128 MB for 50 bucks ? But again, even with 64MB the introduction of X-RAM can be, and probably will be, a hit. Even if it would not give you the benefit of performance, you'd still be saving 64 MB of system memory and games these days need excessive amounts of memory to play around with. I'm all for it!
    when games start to kick in with X-RAM compatibility, who knows what'll happen. Even if you fire off a 127 voice test at the X-Fi then you will finally get roughly a 6% CPU utilization as I had a quick peek with RMAA, yes 127 voices /sounds! This is something the Audigy 4 can' event do (64-voices limited). Suffice to say that not one integrated solution can even get close to that.
    Source

    So now talk! I don't find paying more for X-Fi Fatality will waste money. And I am not agree with you at all about Fatality X-Fi, z5500, forcing normal ppl who enjoy onboard to buy dedicated sound cards etc...