hrahn
09-08-2008, 12:09 PM
Edit the 3rd:
The X-Fi will NOT work crackle-free with the Destroyer. With no sound driver I tried, and no graphics card combo I could think of. So the problem stands:
X-Fi + Destroyer + XP64 = Crackles, hisses, broken audio when using hardware acceleration.
The problem gets worse the more data is being transferred over the SATA ports, are there some IRQ sharing issues between the controller and the single PCI port?
I didnīt find a place in the bios to manually set IRQ resources, have I overlooked something?
Edit the 2nd: The X-Fi crackling is back, and it is worse the bigger the audio files are that are being played. It seems that it has something to do with bus saturation, when a lot of file transfers are going on, the audio crackles, hisses and pops much more than when Iīm just playing a single MP3 with nothing else going on.
Any idea how to remedy this? And donīt say "put the card in another slot"... ever looked at the Destro? Kinda hard to do...
Apart from that - will the Aegis Panel eventually include options for changing the multi of Black Edition Phenoms? Could really come in handy.
Edit: all of the problems solved by switching from the 3870X2 to an old G80 8800GTS. Except for the high pitched whine, itīs driving me nuts.
The X2 runs fine on another board I got here, also with an X-Fi to accompany it (X-Fi extreme gamer though). Wonder if the situation will improve with newer bios versions.
Hey there,
"jumped ship" from a 680i sli to the Destroyer, still running XP64 here because of stability (never ever seen a bluescreen since I started using it).
Now the rest of my hardware is giving me problems, I always have crackling and popping issues with the sound of my X-Fi extreme music , no matter what driver I use (official, youp-pax (all versions) ).
Any idea how I could remedy that? I donīt want to use the onboard sound for obvious (EAX-related) reasons.
Rest of hardware: 9850BE, Antec 1000 TPQ, Sapphire 3870X2 (which also only produces a garbled screen whenever the board blanks it for power saving reasons, but Iīm working on that problem, didnīt occur on the 680i too).
Overall until now I think it is a fine board, but there still are a lot of bugs to be worked out.
Also, the digital power converters emit a very high pitched whine. Last time I heard something like that it was on an Abit BEAST, where the whole series of motherboards was plagued with this problem.
The X-Fi will NOT work crackle-free with the Destroyer. With no sound driver I tried, and no graphics card combo I could think of. So the problem stands:
X-Fi + Destroyer + XP64 = Crackles, hisses, broken audio when using hardware acceleration.
The problem gets worse the more data is being transferred over the SATA ports, are there some IRQ sharing issues between the controller and the single PCI port?
I didnīt find a place in the bios to manually set IRQ resources, have I overlooked something?
Edit the 2nd: The X-Fi crackling is back, and it is worse the bigger the audio files are that are being played. It seems that it has something to do with bus saturation, when a lot of file transfers are going on, the audio crackles, hisses and pops much more than when Iīm just playing a single MP3 with nothing else going on.
Any idea how to remedy this? And donīt say "put the card in another slot"... ever looked at the Destro? Kinda hard to do...
Apart from that - will the Aegis Panel eventually include options for changing the multi of Black Edition Phenoms? Could really come in handy.
Edit: all of the problems solved by switching from the 3870X2 to an old G80 8800GTS. Except for the high pitched whine, itīs driving me nuts.
The X2 runs fine on another board I got here, also with an X-Fi to accompany it (X-Fi extreme gamer though). Wonder if the situation will improve with newer bios versions.
Hey there,
"jumped ship" from a 680i sli to the Destroyer, still running XP64 here because of stability (never ever seen a bluescreen since I started using it).
Now the rest of my hardware is giving me problems, I always have crackling and popping issues with the sound of my X-Fi extreme music , no matter what driver I use (official, youp-pax (all versions) ).
Any idea how I could remedy that? I donīt want to use the onboard sound for obvious (EAX-related) reasons.
Rest of hardware: 9850BE, Antec 1000 TPQ, Sapphire 3870X2 (which also only produces a garbled screen whenever the board blanks it for power saving reasons, but Iīm working on that problem, didnīt occur on the 680i too).
Overall until now I think it is a fine board, but there still are a lot of bugs to be worked out.
Also, the digital power converters emit a very high pitched whine. Last time I heard something like that it was on an Abit BEAST, where the whole series of motherboards was plagued with this problem.