CPU Usage with Onboard Audio vs Audigy/Live
I did some tests with my onboard audio, a Realtek ALC650 and ran some Quake 3 benchies. I got 212 FPS with audio enabled and 244 FPS with audio disabled. I have an old SB Live hanging around, with Creative's drivers installed, I should probably get some of my FPS back right? I am assuming that upgrading to an Audig ...
I did some tests with my onboard audio, a Realtek ALC650 and ran some Quake 3 benchies. I got 212 FPS with audio enabled and 244 FPS with audio disabled.
I have an old SB Live hanging around, with Creative's drivers installed, I should probably get some of my FPS back right?
I am assuming that upgrading to an Audigy or Audigy 2 might make it even better?
I have an old SB Live hanging around, with Creative's drivers installed, I should probably get some of my FPS back right?
I am assuming that upgrading to an Audigy or Audigy 2 might make it even better?
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Hmm, perhaps it's more the person playing the game then anything else, and of course the particular game and/or benchmark you're running
Perhaps the best real world test is to actually play a round of multi-player or something that can simulate multi-player in a single-player environment.
I know that Diablo 2: LOD with many different mod's can actually slow down by quite a bit, this is due to the poor DirectX optimizations in the game and the fact that many mod's increase the amound of monsters and animations on the screen at once so this is most likely the issue, but it's a good test to see if your machine has any noticable lags and/or slow downs in the game.
Hmm, perhaps it's more the person playing the game then anything else, and of course the particular game and/or benchmark you're running
Perhaps the best real world test is to actually play a round of multi-player or something that can simulate multi-player in a single-player environment.
I know that Diablo 2: LOD with many different mod's can actually slow down by quite a bit, this is due to the poor DirectX optimizations in the game and the fact that many mod's increase the amound of monsters and animations on the screen at once so this is most likely the issue, but it's a good test to see if your machine has any noticable lags and/or slow downs in the game.
I know all about FPS and what the human eye can perceive. But for future games, I guess system performance will matter a bit later on...eh whatever.
Let see here, I put my SB Live card in and installed Creative's latest drivers. I got 222 FPS, which is nice.
I never really wanted to use my SB Live as it gave me headaches with my old VIA Chipset/Athlon PC. But now with my Intel chipset, its working really nice and sound is quite clean. Its better sounding right now than the ALC650.
Let see here, I put my SB Live card in and installed Creative's latest drivers. I got 222 FPS, which is nice.
I never really wanted to use my SB Live as it gave me headaches with my old VIA Chipset/Athlon PC. But now with my Intel chipset, its working really nice and sound is quite clean. Its better sounding right now than the ALC650.
