Intel HD Audio & ATI RADEON X700

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madhouse

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How does the 8 Channel Intel HD Audio compare with the Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Audio?

How does the ATI RADEON X700 compare with the 256MB nVIDIA GeForce 6800?

I'm not a big gamer but I do like spending the odd couple of hours a day playing GTI San Andreas!!
 
The Audigy is better than that, which I assume is onboard audio. I can certainly tell a difference in sound quality in games.
 
The Creative is better, but if you don't have better speakers, its pointless.

The X700 is comparable to the 6600GT
 
madhouse said:
How does the 8 Channel Intel HD Audio compare with the Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Audio?

How does the ATI RADEON X700 compare with the 256MB nVIDIA GeForce 6800?

I'm not a big gamer but I do like spending the odd couple of hours a day playing GTI San Andreas!!

for dvd movies the creative is better.

however that intel HD Audio converts basic music and gaming sounds to 7.1 (it tries to mimick dvd audio and it sounds great) on the fly. nothing else does that, but the old nvidia nforce3 driver chipset.

so you draw your own conclusion. outboard will alway give better sound, but maybe a 7.1 onboard sound (comparable to dvd audio) will sound better than an outboard 2.0 with regular music.
 
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