Hardware expert required - onboard sound

Post by **jparnold** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:59 pm

I am trying to determine if I would be better to install a separate sound card rather than using the Realtek onboard sound on my Gigabyte motherboard.

I suspect that it (onboard sound) uses main memory and I (at times) continue to experience problems of VS10 crashing and that always seems to occur when I am doing something which results in both video and audio being played as well as reading off the hard drive PLUS I have noticed that whenever I am playing a video clip OR audio clip using Windows Media player the display ALWAYS freezes for a few seconds (a few seconds after it starts to play - the sound keep playing ok) and during that time I cannot even shut down Windows media player or hit the 'stop button')

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:51 pm

I'm no expert but I have had problems with Realtek on board sound. I had clicks and pops in my sound from DV-AVI video clips when these were burned to DVD. AC97 (Realtek) seem to have a bandwidth issue on the PCI bus. It's using far too much of the available bandwidth. At least that is my understanding of it. After I had put in a PCI soundcard, no more problems.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:12 am

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