sound card and memory

luke white · 10-25-2009, 06:13 AM

Hi guys my friend was recently playing operation flashpoint and was only getting 15 fps ,so i suggested he uprate his graphics card ,which he did to 4870 1gb version,still no joy exactly the same frame rates in all resolutions,so i presumed there was a bottle neck,there was no sound card and he was only using onboard sound,so installed my sound card a razer barracuda ,wow we had over 60 fps ,clearly this was the bottleneck,my question is ,he has £50 to spend,does it really matter that a sound card has onboard memory to keep these frame rates high,either way i would like to know what sound card is best to purchase with in this budget or must he spend more ,regards luke white,

Dogg · 10-29-2009, 02:47 PM

Sound card memory doesn't matter. The "bottle neck" with onboard sound, is typically that the cpu is used for decoding/processing. Whereas a sound card has it's own hardware decoder. Any will do that meets your needs.

I'm very surprised you saw that much of an increase, sounds more like a driver conflict. What are the system specs?

10-25-2009, 06:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
luke white Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: sussex england Posts: 1 OS: vista 64 bit	sound card and memory Hi guys my friend was recently playing operation flashpoint and was only getting 15 fps ,so i suggested he uprate his graphics card ,which he did to 4870 1gb version,still no joy exactly the same frame rates in all resolutions,so i presumed there was a bottle neck,there was no sound card and he was only using onboard sound,so installed my sound card a razer barracuda ,wow we had over 60 fps ,clearly this was the bottleneck,my question is ,he has £50 to spend,does it really matter that a sound card has onboard memory to keep these frame rates high,either way i would like to know what sound card is best to purchase with in this budget or must he spend more ,regards luke white,

10-29-2009, 02:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dogg Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: St Louis, MO Posts: 1,965 OS: XP sp3	Re: sound card and memory Sound card memory doesn't matter. The "bottle neck" with onboard sound, is typically that the cpu is used for decoding/processing. Whereas a sound card has it's own hardware decoder. Any will do that meets your needs. I'm very surprised you saw that much of an increase, sounds more like a driver conflict. What are the system specs? __________________ Google is your friend !