

Auzentech Prelude 7.1 (Source: Hardware Canucks)
EAX 5.0 and Dolby Digital Live on a single PCI sound card





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RE: PCI Express
By wien on 5/30/2007 9:42:52 PM , Rating: 5
Sound cards need near real-time latency. You can't cache information that doesn't exist yet. Take for instance sound input processed by the CPU and sent back out through the output (very common in studio applications for instance). Latencies down into the milliseconds can be quite noticeable in these cases. Same goes for games which generate sounds real time. They need output as soon as possible. Caching isn't an option.


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