I'll give you that, but when you could (can?) get an X2 3600+, 690G motherboard and some RAM for the price of a mid-range Core 2 CPU, that makes you think. Especially since the Brisbane cores can OC up the wazoo (I got 2.9GHz easy).
I'm not sure what you have, but it isn't all that difficult to switch the op amps on most recent Creative sound cards (Audigy 2 ZS, X-Fi) to a pretty nice boost in sound quality;)
The X2 3600+ could be had for $65 shipped free with a copy of Rainbox 6 : Vegas since last week. Sell the game for $15 - $20 and get the CPU for ~$45.
Pair it with a Biostar TA690G (the best overclocking 690G motherboard aside from the Sapphire PI-AM2RS690MHD) as well as some SuperTalent DDR2-667 (which seems to overclock pretty well) and you have a pretty nice setup.
>> I suggest you think about it yourself. Quit bitching about the situation, get off of your ass, and go do your work OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN FUCKING ROOM! How is that for a concept?
Lousy. I actually prefer my own room and can't understand why 99.999% of schmoes would prefer to hole up in the library or some crummy lab unless they absolutely have to. Oh and quit being fvcking miopic!
I like Creative soundcards except for the annoying "Hey, let's resample everything to 48,000KHz" characteristic of the recent ones using EMU chipsets (SBLive!, Audigy, Audigy 2, Audigy 4). Granted, you won't see me shelling out top $$$ for the latest Fatality/"My e-peen is huge!" edition card but their last gen cards are pretty nice for the price (~$35 used), even nicer if you take the bother to modify them (replace the stock op amps).
I believe that one of the main reasons is EAX support. Wasn't there an article a little while ago claiming that the supposed "EAX 2.0" capability of integrated sound chipsets were actually piss poor?
I actually like their inclusion of FireWire on the Audigy 2 ZS vs having a card hogging a precious PCI slot or worse yet having to buy one of those God awful expensive PCI-E 1x cards. You need to be a little less miopic;)
>>> Do you really think anyone still running DOS/Win3.1/95/98/ME/NT is the type of user that buys aftermarket add-on cards to install in their computer?
Ever felt the urge to get some classic gaming on a old physical system? Say hello to the SB16, SB AWE32, WaveBlaster I/II, etc.;)
After the incident on Mars, I will never trust the UAC again.
On the bright side, they did make sure to leave a couple of BFGs and decent amount of ammo for it.;)
For single core, just get a Socket 754 Sempron (Palermo core) and OC it up the wazoo. Mainly games performance suffers (not by that much) due to the halved L2 cache. Word of caution - don't even bother buying the 128KB L2 cache models - you can OC it till it melts its socket and you won't gain much performance (seems that for the K8, 512KB is the sweet spot, 256KB is nice, 1MB is skeet skeet skeet and 128KB just sucks).
For less that 200 bones, you can get an E6400 (or E4300 if you like the higher multiplier) and easily get at least 2.9GHz (sometimes on stock, no less). Isn't that a top end CPU?;)
Not to mention that whatever you interface it to has to be incredibly broadband. To achieve the edge-times on those 100GHz square pulses, you'd need a hell a lot of harmonics.
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Pulsed systems. They're wonderful things - it would be impossible to do kilowatt power amplifiers without pulsing 'em.
I'll give you that, but when you could (can?) get an X2 3600+, 690G motherboard and some RAM for the price of a mid-range Core 2 CPU, that makes you think. Especially since the Brisbane cores can OC up the wazoo (I got 2.9GHz easy).
IINM, it IS the discs - with Sony's ARccOS protection.
I'm not sure what you have, but it isn't all that difficult to switch the op amps on most recent Creative sound cards (Audigy 2 ZS, X-Fi) to a pretty nice boost in sound quality ;)
The X2 3600+ could be had for $65 shipped free with a copy of Rainbox 6 : Vegas since last week. Sell the game for $15 - $20 and get the CPU for ~$45.
Pair it with a Biostar TA690G (the best overclocking 690G motherboard aside from the Sapphire PI-AM2RS690MHD) as well as some SuperTalent DDR2-667 (which seems to overclock pretty well) and you have a pretty nice setup.
Biostar TA690G at ZipZoomFly (the best deal atm w/free shipping)
2GB SuperTalent DDR2-667 at either newEgg or eWiz
If you need a cheap AM2 heatsink and some thermal paste, hit up SVC for the Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 and some Arctic Silver Ceramique
GaAs is incredibly expensive. You do know that IBM bandgap engineered SiGe to get away from that right ;)
>> I suggest you think about it yourself. Quit bitching about the situation, get off of your ass, and go do your work OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN FUCKING ROOM! How is that for a concept?
Lousy. I actually prefer my own room and can't understand why 99.999% of schmoes would prefer to hole up in the library or some crummy lab unless they absolutely have to. Oh and quit being fvcking miopic!
I like Creative soundcards except for the annoying "Hey, let's resample everything to 48,000KHz" characteristic of the recent ones using EMU chipsets (SBLive!, Audigy, Audigy 2, Audigy 4). Granted, you won't see me shelling out top $$$ for the latest Fatality/"My e-peen is huge!" edition card but their last gen cards are pretty nice for the price (~$35 used), even nicer if you take the bother to modify them (replace the stock op amps).
I believe that one of the main reasons is EAX support. Wasn't there an article a little while ago claiming that the supposed "EAX 2.0" capability of integrated sound chipsets were actually piss poor?
I actually like their inclusion of FireWire on the Audigy 2 ZS vs having a card hogging a precious PCI slot or worse yet having to buy one of those God awful expensive PCI-E 1x cards. You need to be a little less miopic ;)
>>> Do you really think anyone still running DOS/Win3.1/95/98/ME/NT is the type of user that buys aftermarket add-on cards to install in their computer? Ever felt the urge to get some classic gaming on a old physical system? Say hello to the SB16, SB AWE32, WaveBlaster I/II, etc. ;)
Simple - VMR9.
After the incident on Mars, I will never trust the UAC again. ;)
On the bright side, they did make sure to leave a couple of BFGs and decent amount of ammo for it.
Well, our ears are basically bandpass filters with a funky passband ripple, so I'd have to agree with you.
Too bad you're no longer with them or you could ask the T&S department to stick it :|
Maybe you should just use them in a JBOD like fashion?
Bling bling baby! More bling than east and west coast rap combined.
For single core, just get a Socket 754 Sempron (Palermo core) and OC it up the wazoo. Mainly games performance suffers (not by that much) due to the halved L2 cache. Word of caution - don't even bother buying the 128KB L2 cache models - you can OC it till it melts its socket and you won't gain much performance (seems that for the K8, 512KB is the sweet spot, 256KB is nice, 1MB is skeet skeet skeet and 128KB just sucks). For less that 200 bones, you can get an E6400 (or E4300 if you like the higher multiplier) and easily get at least 2.9GHz (sometimes on stock, no less). Isn't that a top end CPU? ;)
Oy! That's Malaysia's job! :P
Not to mention that whatever you interface it to has to be incredibly broadband. To achieve the edge-times on those 100GHz square pulses, you'd need a hell a lot of harmonics.
They need to recoup the money that Jack Tretton lost :j pg
t retton-offers-to-buy-unsold-ps3s-for-1200-235204.p hp
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20070210.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/kotaku-magu/kotaku-magu-
Same thing Malaysia, where peddling discs in night markets / out of car trunks qualifies as being in the IT industry.
Naw... he has a material with an infinite mean free path. ;)
Should we use her in suck or blow mode?