DFI LANPARTY UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G : hands-on preview

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almost all conroe boards using 965/765 chipsets use dolby digital live
amd loose market for sure
cpus too slow and mobos with bad audio asics
creative x-fi don't have dolby digital live
more on http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4...i/index.x?pg=1

Despite its fancy new architecture, onboard memory, support for Dolby Digital ES and DTS-EX output, and THX certification, the X-Fi won't encode Dolby Digital Live. According to Creative, Dolby Digital Live support would make the X-Fi more expensive due to both licensing costs and the need for additional tank RAM on the chip. Creative also asserts that Dolby Digital Live encoding introduces a small amount of latency, and points out that it's limited to 5.1-channel output. Perhaps more notably, Creative says that Dolby Digital Live encoding can't handle DRM-protected content since it passes unprotected data through a digital output. That's an interesting limitation, although PC enthusiasts have never really been enthusiastic about DRM-encrusted content.