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   #2. Posted at 11:51 AM on Aug 16th 2004 Edit   Reply
GodsMadClown
...which should have eight channels of 32-bit, 192KHz high-definition audio...

We all know how poorly MB manufacturers are currently implementing the EnvyPT chip, by coupling it with cheap DAC stages, among other cost cutting measures. What makes us think that they'll do a better job with this new CODEC?
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#2, Well to be fair some of that has to do with VIA's strange ba...  :  HiggsBoson  (#5)  «

   #1. Posted at 11:47 AM on Aug 16th 2004 Edit   Reply
GodsMadClown
...whether a four-lane or eight-lane config will hinder performance to any noteworthy degree.

I highly doubt that it will. Current gaming software is designed around the Current AGP bandwidth. Can they take write codce that optimizes for both a 8x PCI-e link and a 4x AGP link? I don't know jack-squat about graphics programming. Would the bandwidth consumption have to be designed at the application or driver level?
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#1, IIRC, it'd be driver-level, which takes us back a while (SEV...  :  derFunkenstein  (#3)  «
#1, Actually the big dirty, dark secret of AGP is that pretty mu...  :  An Ominous Gerbil  (#4)  «
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