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Reply With Quotei can tell you right away that both nx and x-fi are no good.
I don't know why but creative never make drive that works well with carpc.
Well, I finalized my car-pc 2.5 months ago; but I can't stop now! This thing is like car modifying, it never ends! Now I'm making my new case and I need either a flexible pci riser card for my audigy 2, or I need an usb sound card. I live in Turkey and today I'll be searching for flexible riser cards; but I'm 99% sure that I won't be successful!I don't want to waste more time and ship it from US. It will be my last option. So today if I can not find a riser card I'll be buying a usb sound card. Well since my old card is audigy 2, I want at least that quality. And as I searched in the forums there are boot time and cpu usage issues with usb sound cards. Now it is very important for me, both the boot time and the cpu usage.
My system is:
Socket 478 p4 northwood 2.6 HT
2*512 = 1 gb ddr400 ram
160gb 5400 rpm 2.5'' hdd
Avermedia usb digital Tv card
Running on xp with roadrunner and my gps programme igo8 which is integrated to rr with igo zoomer.
I can buy sb live usb, audigy nx or x-fi xtreme and I read the thread about x-fi; but I just do not know the cpu usage and boot time in my system. If my system is powerfull enough for an x-fi xtreme then I'll buy one.
If you help me I'll be very happy.
i can tell you right away that both nx and x-fi are no good.
I don't know why but creative never make drive that works well with carpc.
how many channels do you need? if you can get away with two channels and either use your amp's internal x-over's or get an external x-over then i'd suggest looking into a usb dac. no boot time or cpu usage penalties.
New System in progress:
M10k
Phaze TD1500 ~> Dynaudio MD130
Phaze TD1500 ~> Seas g18rnx/p
Zapco Ref 500.1 ~ 12" tc-9
Behringer DCX2496 ~ Envision Electronics psu
Transflective Xenarc
My Car Pc Install
My Boat Pc worklog
I have two amplifiers, one is for speakers the other is for my woofers. So I need either a 5.1 soundcard or a stereo sound card and a crossover-EQ. So I made a small research about your suggestions, and I searched for hippo DAC. They are quite expensive!! And I guess I should wait for the third group buy, if it will ever happen!? And I found Kicker kx3 and kx9. Kx3 is a crossover, kx9 is a small EQ. What do you think about them? Are they good for a big size, mid quality system? And which one I should prefer? Shipping a kx3 to Turkey costs me 60$!!! Which makes it at total 140$. hippo is 180$, if third group buy ever happens, which makes the investment 320$, half price of my total car-pc system! Maybe in the future I can make this investment...
Well then I have some more questions, I am currently using a pci audigy 2. And I'm happy with that. I don't have boot time or cpu usage issues. Also an increase in boot time about 5 seconds is not important for me. Hibernation issues are not also important. For sound quality, can I understand the differance between an usb x-fi and pci audigy 2 in windows xp?
I wonder if anyone has opinions on the creative x-fi xmod? Creative.com is having a sale at $30 each, but they are out of stock. You can get them for under $100 on ebay though.
http://us.creative.com/products/prod...&product=15913
The crystallizer function seems to be very interesting.
M-Audio Transit USB sound card has very high sound quality and minimalist drivers that take less time to load. Also very affordable at about $80.00 online. It also has digital input and output capability. I use them in my car and home theater setups and recommend them over any Creative product. I am currently using a Dell D630 laptop running Win XP as my Car PC while I experiment with different options.
I asked the same question, now thinking about it why not just run a crossover. Thats what I am gonna do.
Well I found a cheap Equaliser in Turkey. In Turkey it is impossible to find kicker crossovers; but there are lots of pioneer EQ's. I bought EQ-6500 for 50YTL which is around 35 dollars! I tested it in my home setup with hi-fi amps and speakers. And I can say that it doesn't reduce the sound quality. So I am one step closer for an usb DAC. But I don't know when the third group buy of hippo DAC will happen.
you dont' have to buy Hippo DAC... just look them up on Ebay under USB DOC and you'll find a few, and some of them you can get for as low as $60 I think that's the rout i'll take
ive seen alien dac's on ebay as well
New System in progress:
M10k
Phaze TD1500 ~> Dynaudio MD130
Phaze TD1500 ~> Seas g18rnx/p
Zapco Ref 500.1 ~ 12" tc-9
Behringer DCX2496 ~ Envision Electronics psu
Transflective Xenarc
My Car Pc Install
My Boat Pc worklog
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