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Advice on this PC
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27-08-2002 12:21pm#1
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hardly a hardware tweaking topic, now is it?
Anyways, the spec sounds good. Only thing I would change is to go for the 19" P992 trinitron monitor, well worth the cash. Considering you were gonna splash out 500 on an extra 266mhz, I think you can afford it as well
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Let's face it, to most people, if you can plug in all of the speakers, it's grand. The majority of PC applications (with the exception of serious music/recording packages) don't use most of the features of audio cards these days; most game audio, for example, is sampled PCM ("raw" digital audio data), so if it supports enough speakers for your taste (2, 2.1, 4.1, or 5.1, where the ".1" refers to a subwoofer) you'll be fine. Even the audio mixing (so that your music and your sampled gunshots play at the same time) is done in software, AFAIK. About the only exception to this I can think of is this so-called "positional audio" - getting the sound card to make a sound appear to be coming from a given direction when hooked up to surround speakers (which tend to be positioned wrongly anyway by most people, myself included, because they're awkward). However, all current cards support this sort of thing (look for "EAX" or "Sensaura")
The 1024 is fine for sound playback. It's actually not too bad for recording either, but the Audigy has the edge due to better (double) internal sampling rates. Plus, some (if not all) Audigys come with a Firewire port, I think...
To be honest, it seems to me that sound cards are at a bit of an impasse right now; there's no "holy grail" for them to achieve, unlike, say, graphics hardware, and the features that differentiate the high-end and low-end models these days are ones that most people (90+%) won't actually use, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, there's still some cheap, woeful sounding muck out there, but if you go with any current model from a reasonable brand you'll be fine unless you want to be the next Brian Eno or Orbital or somebody like that. Having said all that, someone will come up with something new to put a spanner in what I've just said any... minute... now...
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Well I posted it in HW Tweaking as I though the that was where the post should go due to the adding or subtracting of HW bits kinda gig of my post
Im gonna stick with the SB 1024 for a few reasions. Iv always used SB sound cards of one type or another and not once have I had any trouble with any of the cards or problems with games and SB cards. I will probley be using digital head phones while playing games or listening to music or watching videos on the PC so any other extra features is just a waste.
Ill probley have to have a think about the extra cash for the monitor tho Dont suppose you have any HW reviews of the one you mentioned do you Gerry? 0 -
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Dave its gonna be alittle while before I get the PC so hopefully the prices may drop a bit but this is free money due to a happy event in work so the price dosent matter
Im drokked if Im buying any MS OS even with free money.I know to many people who can get me OS systems for free.0 -
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after a while of arguing about it i got the dell guy to offer it to me without an OS, but he was only going to take E 50 off the price, the same discount if I had of ordered online :mad: then the next time I called a different guy refused any discount at all
that pc is nice, but the sound setup isnt the best, i prefer my audigy card and inspire 5300 0 -
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