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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: lpr on February 09, 2004, 10:02:27 pm
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Hello,
Anybody using ASIO w/SPDIF on an EPOX 8RDA3+ nforce2 board. I'm seriouly looking at this board for a future setup. My current Revo 7.1 doesn't support ASIO w/SPDIF, I was wondering if this board's NVIDIA SoundStorm would work great with Media Center and ASIO?
Thanks for your help.
lpr
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I'm using it with the asus a7n8x deluxe which i think has the same built in sound mcp-t. ASIO works and sounds pretty daamn good with analouge out on just my basic stereo. I haven't tried it with SPDIF yet because its my office computer.
I have the a7n8x-x with the plain realtek audio on my HTPC
downstairs hooked up with SPDIF coax to my good stereo. I guess i'm not getting a very good signal down there. I mistakenly thought digital (spdif) was straight digital from the source and would therefore be soundcard independant. i still don't completely understand but it sounds like I need to get a better soundcard down there. I heard revo 7.1 was great with analogue and asio. so for 6 months i've been planning on getting one of those; but maybe i should get a different card and do asio with spdif over an optical line or something. My stereo is only a three year old 5.1 dts/dd onkyo so i wasn't sure if the revo 7.1 dac would be better.
Anyway, for a value office system I highly recommend the MCP-T audio using ASO media center to ($50) HK695 satelite computer speakers. It sounds almost as good as my downstairs set up.
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I was under the impression that nforce resamples to 48Khz. so you might bypass kmixer but you are probably not getting the quality of the M-Audio card.
Cheers
Thomas
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Hello,
According to the nforce2 drivers specs: "ASIO support for recording at sample rates other than 48kHz; lower and more predictable latency".
I'm asking around to see if it works well with SPDIF.
Take care,
lpr