Nforce Soundstorn In Nforce 5 from Jen Hsun Hwang hmmmmm
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Yes I seem to recall they did. If I remember correctly (ugh, it's been a spell) many of the Aureal people went over to Nvidia rather than go to Creative. I think many of them would have rather had their toe-nails pulled before they'd go over to the dark-side
So Creative got their IP & physical assets, but Nvidia swooped in & hired their employees.
Tech-Reports are suggesting that SS might be integrated into future GeForce's to create a 'media processing' chip (and nVidia do already have experience from the NV1)
http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/7706
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http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/7706
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Phantom69 said:
That's a disturbing read. Luckily its all speculation @ this point.
IMO Nvidia should release Soundstorm 2 as it's own chipset. Give mobo makers the option of using it, or offering it as a stand-alone sound-card solution. I would love to see them put out a product that put Creatives to shame. Soundstorm did a pretty good job of doing that, and it was an intergrated solution!
He's not talking about nForce2 audio, he's talking about the failure of the nV1.Nyo_S23 said:
No one is disputing that nForce2's soundstorm was a decent solution, it was/is....but I personally would rather see an add-in card than any further integration.
I'm not a big fan of integrated stuff, I prefer to pick and choose me bits.
digitalwanderer said:
I'm not a fan of integrated 'stuff' either (have an Audigy2). But the intrinsic nature of microelectronics is to become more integrated. Cache on cpu's, SATA/RAID controllers, NICs etc etc. There's only so much you can do with sound and sooner or later you will get everything in an integrated chipset.
That's cool, just make sure it plugs into something and can be unplugged and upgraded.trinibwoy said:
I'd love it if soundcards got to be the size of flash memory, but I still want to be able to change it if I want.
I was hoping no one would bring up the integrated NIC, it's the achilles heel of me argument 'cause I must admit that I do love having one just built in.trinibwoy said:
But it's different to me, soundcards evolve a lot quicker than networking protocals....and I've just had crap experience with any integrated sound solutions. :?
trinibwoy said:
um.... YES!
I do NOT use integrated NIC's because they are, more often than not, crap. I've spent over $150 on a NIC. Not only would you want to upgrade from 100MB to Gigabit but, you might also want to toss in a fiber card (or two) at some point. I hate integrated NICs. And Firewire cards? Can you say FIrewire 800? How about USB? What about all of those boards out there with only USB 1.1?
I've never had a problem with onboard NICs, they've always just worked for me.