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| Thread ID: 79583 | 2007-05-25 03:28:00 | ac97 sound - what is it? | clinton (12318) | Press F1 |
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| 552890 | 2007-05-25 03:28:00 | Hello - I need an expert to clarify what AC97 sound actually is. My understanding is it's not a brand name, or a bit of hardware, but a system, a specification for implementing sound on a PC. So one machine with AC97 integrated sound may be quite different in quality and performance from another machine with the same AC97 on-board sound. In other words having AC97 on-board sound doesn't actually tell me much about how good that sound will be? Could some expert clarify this for me please? Thanks - Clinton |
clinton (12318) | ||
| 552891 | 2007-05-25 03:30:00 | ac97 is a model number for a intergrated sound chip Its a product made by Realtek and in my opinion is the worst possible sound you could have in your PC. Not to mention it conflicts with EVERYTHING from usb sticks to your mouse. I would ditch it and pick up a creative sound card from trademe |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 552892 | 2007-05-25 03:34:00 | Not to mention it conflicts with EVERYTHING from usb sticks to your mouse. I've never had this happen. And never seen it conflict with anything thats USB on any PC. It must have been a screwed up system. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 552893 | 2007-05-25 03:38:00 | That is possible speedy, my experience with this item is nothing by headaches and wasted time. Once I uninstalled the sound and disabled it all my problems disappeared, I have ditched that motherboard long ago now and maybe they have fixed these issues but I will never trust this product again. Your mileage may vary. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 552894 | 2007-05-25 03:39:00 | Its a product made by Realtek and in my opinion is the worst possible sound you could have in your PC. Not to mention it conflicts with EVERYTHING from usb sticks to your mouse. I would ditch it and pick up a creative sound card from trademe /me hides his on-board AC-97 audio that has never caused a single problem even under heavily overclocked CPU\Ram :p |
MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 552895 | 2007-05-25 04:00:00 | /me hides his on-board AC-97 audio that has never caused a single problem even under heavily overclocked CPU\Ram :p I am with you, I have never had a single issue cause by the AC97 codec, it is effectively a hardware sound codec |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 552896 | 2007-05-25 08:28:00 | I only ever had one problem with AC97. Spent some time with a guy who lost sound. All the usual looked OK to me. Silly me. I should have checked he had plugged the speakers in as a first step! However you will normally get better sound with a dedicated PCI Card. I have proven this for myself over time. You will also have to pay attention to the speakers and the quality thereof. You also have to think about input/output. Do you need to plug in a turntable to put your old LPs on CDs for example. It also depends on what your current speakers are. Personally I use a Soundblaster X-fi with 5.1 speakers. Rather depends on what you want to do. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 552897 | 2007-05-25 19:52:00 | I have a friend who is a Sound Engineer and does a lot with GOLDWAVE (this program is to sound what Photoshop is to Graphics) He can use it to test and map sound cards and the different results were amazing. On board sound was as bad as it gets Even a cheap midrage creative card was way better. |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 552898 | 2007-05-25 22:33:00 | No problems here with my "cruddy" AC97 chip. Then again, I'm not an audiophile and am probably tone deaf :rolleyes: |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 552899 | 2007-05-26 01:39:00 | ac97 is a model number for a intergrated sound chip Its a product made by Realtek and in my opinion is the worst possible sound you could have in your PC. Not to mention it conflicts with EVERYTHING from usb sticks to your mouse. I would ditch it and pick up a creative sound card from trademe AC97 isn't the model number of any Realtek chipset, AC97 is actually an audio codec standard developed by Intel ;) Clinton it might be time to learn how to use Google ;) posting that sort of question here is just lazy not to mention inefficient. In the time it took you to write out the post you could have easily used Google. And don't get me started on all those fools who continue to bag onboard audio, if they took the time to do some research they'd actually find modern onboard audio isn't all that bad especially the stuff that adheres to Intel High Def standard. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
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