I thought it would be junk, too. The fact that it handles FSX sound OK doesn't prove much. However, my eeE PC is about the size of your machine and also has on board sound. For my Brennan machine wot holds my entire record collection I have a 320Gb USB HD, as backup. I tried playing off that, via the eeE and the sound was great! I don't suppose we can overlook our ears becoming increasingly Lo-Fi, with the passage of time.
Gerry Winskill On 17/02/2011 19:34, Fossil wrote:
I'd assumed the onboard sound would be pretty punk but it was really quite decent - for speech anyway. I'm not it is that good across the whole audio spectrum. bones bones@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 17 February 2011 16:36 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: Update 345 of 6000 Onboard sound is a feature of a lot of mobos these days. With lower fi hearing I stick with it, although I've read quite a few forum reports that it slows down FSX, because of its increased demand on processor time, cf a Soundblaster, say. Gerry Winskill On 17/02/2011 16:17, Fossil wrote:Initial test worked much better than expected in that I had traffic as well as three JHB pilots logging in. Thanks to Alastair, John and Fred for checking the radio side and to VAA108 and DLH86VM for providing traffic. The new Zotac seems to run IVAC perfectly well and sound seemed perfectly acceptable too. I presume sound comes from one of the tiny chips on the mobo – a far cry from the Soundblaster cards I normally use! bones bones@xxxxxxx<mailto:bones@xxxxxxx> *From:*jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *MikeB *Sent:* 17 February 2011 16:06 *To:* jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [jhb] Re: Update 345 of 6000 Damn! SWMBO insists on doing more shopping. Grrr! :-( M. From my iPhone .... On 17 Feb 2011, at 15:08, MikeB<mike.brook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mike.brook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Give me 10 mins to get home& switch on .... M. From my iPhone .... On 17 Feb 2011, at 14:48, "Fossil"<fossil@xxxxxxx <mailto:fossil@xxxxxxx>> wrote: I’ve got the new box installed in my room and now running. Network was fiddly to set up but seems OK now. If anyone is free to try a quick test on IVAO I have just plugged in at EGNS. I just need a connection to prove the display is picking an aircraft up and, more essential, that voice coms are working. bones bones@xxxxxxx<mailto:bones@xxxxxxx>
