IS Audigy LS good enough?

danelectro · Jun 22, 2004, 06:26 PM

IS Audigy LS good enough?
for listening music and games
without any recording stuff?

Jitter · Jun 22, 2004, 06:58 PM

I have had an audigy LS since about a month or 2 after they first came out (id say thats about 6-8 months now). Anyways I cant complain about the sound quality it sounds very good I have never had any noise or popping from the speakers or anything, and i am hooked up to a surround system. However it seems to be a major CPU hog. When i ran 3dmark my framerates dropped way more than half of what they were w/o sound. I compared my score to someone w/ a very similar system and we had about the same score w/o sound, but w/ sound he totally crushed me. I thought maybe i had somekinda IRQ conflict or that maybe i had 2 things sharing the same IRQ, but i couldnt find anything. Another thing is that the support/forums for the LS is harder to find because it is not as common as the other cards. In my opinion i would spend the extra $20-$30 and go for the Audigy 2 ZS.

Hope that helps

Kevin

Judas · Jun 22, 2004, 11:58 PM

The LS is very low end.... it'll get you by but be warned.... pretty well nill preformance and quality in comparison to the ZS.... the LS is basically a updated version of the Creative soud blaster 16...

Jitter · Jun 23, 2004, 02:34 AM

I dont thinks its quite that bad judas it is 24bit and supports 5.1 surround, but i dont really have anything to compare the sound too (except AC97). It sounds fine to me, but if i had to do it over i would fork out the few extra dollars for the ZS

**dj_stick** · Jun 23, 2004, 04:32 AM

audigy LS takes more CPU cycles than the other audigy/audigy2 cards due to the software emulation required to support certain aspects that are hardware based on the true audigy cards (10k2 chips)

danelectro · Jun 24, 2004, 06:06 PM

Thanks for the info guys. Yep audigy ls takes alot of cpu power.

danelectro · Jun 24, 2004, 06:07 PM

BTW: By the way is it comparable to the sound of audigy?and live ?

**dj_stick** · Jun 24, 2004, 10:42 PM

go to http://.rightmark.org - they have the results from the live and audigy there, and also havea program you can test the LS with

Jun 22, 2004, 06:26 PM	#1
danelectro DigiTech® Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Philippines Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	IS Audigy LS good enough? IS Audigy LS good enough? for listening music and games without any recording stuff?

Jun 23, 2004, 02:34 AM	#4
Jitter HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 534 Rep Power: 0	I dont thinks its quite that bad judas it is 24bit and supports 5.1 surround, but i dont really have anything to compare the sound too (except AC97). It sounds fine to me, but if i had to do it over i would fork out the few extra dollars for the ZS __________________ Sony Vaio PCV-RX670 P4 1.8ghz XP Pro SP2 1 GB PC2100 RAM ATI All in Wonder 9700 pro Audigy 2 ZS Aquamark ~29,500 3dMark03 ~ 5,000

Jun 24, 2004, 06:06 PM	Thread Starter #6
danelectro DigiTech® Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Philippines Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	Thanks for the info guys. Yep audigy ls takes alot of cpu power. __________________ Athlon XP 3200+ @2.3ghz Epox 8rda+ Pro Kingston Hyper X DDR400 UL 2X256mb @ 2-2-2-5 Leadtek A6600gt @ 560/1050mhz Samsung Sp120 7200rpm 120gb Seagate Baracuda 40gb 7200rpm (Primary) Task 450watts

Jun 24, 2004, 06:07 PM	Thread Starter #7
danelectro DigiTech® Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Philippines Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	BTW: By the way is it comparable to the sound of audigy?and live ? __________________ Athlon XP 3200+ @2.3ghz Epox 8rda+ Pro Kingston Hyper X DDR400 UL 2X256mb @ 2-2-2-5 Leadtek A6600gt @ 560/1050mhz Samsung Sp120 7200rpm 120gb Seagate Baracuda 40gb 7200rpm (Primary) Task 450watts

Jun 22, 2004, 06:58 PM	#2
Jitter HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 534 Rep Power: 0	I have had an audigy LS since about a month or 2 after they first came out (id say thats about 6-8 months now). Anyways I cant complain about the sound quality it sounds very good I have never had any noise or popping from the speakers or anything, and i am hooked up to a surround system. However it seems to be a major CPU hog. When i ran 3dmark my framerates dropped way more than half of what they were w/o sound. I compared my score to someone w/ a very similar system and we had about the same score w/o sound, but w/ sound he totally crushed me. I thought maybe i had somekinda IRQ conflict or that maybe i had 2 things sharing the same IRQ, but i couldnt find anything. Another thing is that the support/forums for the LS is harder to find because it is not as common as the other cards. In my opinion i would spend the extra $20-$30 and go for the Audigy 2 ZS. Hope that helps Kevin