Better performance with sound card?

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Hi, Would i get more FPS in games if i got a xi-fi sound blaster sound card? I heard it boots it performance. Is this true? :/

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false, you don't get extra fps for having a sound card, thou it still sound a lot better than integrated audio :P
 
Maybe if you have a shitty processor. In theory yes (if the game maxes out all your cores), but in reality no. A sound card, however, gives you more features like 5.1, 7.1, etc, clearer sound, and a better sense of where the sound us suppose to be coming from.
 
The X-Fi has a lot of potential. IIRC I remember reading an article stating that the CPU on the X-Fi is as powerful as a 3.4Ghz processor (not C2D's of course).

However you don't really gain too much, and in some instances it may go down.
 
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[-0MEGA-];781827 said:
The X-Fi has a lot of potential. IIRC I remember reading an article stating that the CPU on the X-Fi is as powerful as a 3.0-3.2Ghz processor (not C2D's of course).

However you don't really gain too much, and in some instances it may go down.
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I hear its a 1.8ghz P4 equivalent, lol.
 
littleblackxj said:
I hear its a 1.8ghz P4 equivalent, lol.
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According to Creative, the Xtreme Fidelity Engine is like having the power of a second 3.4GHz processor (more than 10,000MIPS) built into the PC that was dedicated just to audio! That's enough additional power to process more than 10 Billion instructions per second!
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littleblackxj said:
Yes, but 3.4ghz means nothing. 3.4ghz core2duo? 3.4ghz PII? 3.4ghz ARM7tdmi?
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The X-Fi came out when the Pentium 4 era was around, and they most likely refer to that, just like how all games around the same time always said "requires 2.8Ghz CPU or better".
 
A real sound card built for gaming will take off the processing from the processor so the processor has more computing power left over for doing other tasks. Company of heros opposing fronts thats just come out, the developers have gone mad and coded it so the game sound will only run on the cpu or a creative sound card making gamers with onboard sound have serious issues with their processor performance. The only cure is a really fast dual core processor or a creative sound card.

About the additional computing power added by a X-fi card, the additional computing power is for sound processing only it's not going to run Ai and game code. Some of the sound coding is normaly done by the CPU in the case of onboard sound.
 
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I don't thonk there can be increase in the fps in games by using a xi-fi sound blaster sound card. It will increase the performance of your speakers let it be of any model or size. Anybody having knowledge about it then please share to help increase mine.
 
Serious Chatter said:
I don't thonk there can be increase in the fps in games by using a xi-fi sound blaster sound card. It will increase the performance of your speakers let it be of any model or size. Anybody having knowledge about it then please share to help increase mine.
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Of course there can be an increase with the addition of a sound card, because theres the CPU no longer has to process the audio, it now goes to a dedicated processor on the sound card. This is much more evident however in games where the CPU is the bottleneck. You most likely wont see any difference with a high end processor, especially a dual/quad core.
 
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