MSI's P6N Diamond will have on-board X-Fi - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 9th Jan 2007, 09:39

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/01...on-board_x-fi/

DougEdey · 9th Jan 2007, 09:42

It'd be interesting to see if the onboard sound integration will make better gaming benchmarks (even by only a few FPS) compared to a similar solution with an X-Fi card.

Is the onboard X-Fi having the Sound RAM (like, IIRC, the higher end Fatal1ty word)

PS: I feel icky for saying Wendells name.

Tim S · 9th Jan 2007, 09:52

nah, it's the basic model.

DougEdey · 9th Jan 2007, 09:57

Shame.

Woodstock · 9th Jan 2007, 10:47

whats the use of motherboard with integrated X-Fi, when the board corrupts your data

JADS · 9th Jan 2007, 10:54

Hmm the 4 16x PCI-E slots are very interesting

Maybe they should do a top end version with the high end X-Fi built in and connected to the 5.25" box (Fatal1ty version?).

DougEdey · 9th Jan 2007, 11:07

Do you mean the 680i Woodstock? hopefully this motherboard won't have the same problems.

Tim S · 9th Jan 2007, 11:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey

Do you mean the 680i Woodstock? hopefully this motherboard won't have the same problems.

Indeed, it's only the reference design boards affected by the data corruption problems - this board isn't a reference design.

Tim S · 9th Jan 2007, 11:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by JADS

Hmm the 4 16x PCI-E slots are very interesting

Maybe they should do a top end version with the high end X-Fi built in and connected to the 5.25" box (Fatal1ty version?).

That would probably drive the price up well above £300

samkiller42 · 9th Jan 2007, 11:23

Im likeing the look of this board, hopefully MSI will be able to keep up with the Asus Striker, which is the board i have in mind to swap with my EVGA

Sam

JADS · 9th Jan 2007, 11:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim S

That would probably drive the price up well above £300

Well considering the board costs £200 ish and the sound card + box costs £150 ish then paying £300-£325 for the combo would be a rather sound bargain if you ask me

Not only that, but you free up a PCI slot and get high end audio thrown in for good measure.

DXR_13KE · 9th Jan 2007, 20:39

i am looking at the future and i see that the next few months are going to be interesting.

Lazarus Dark · 9th Jan 2007, 21:46

About time someone finally put x-fi on board! Wish more mobo's had it.

Aankhen · 10th Jan 2007, 00:44

Seems like a great idea to me. About time the X-Fi got some onboard love.

HourBeforeDawn · 10th Jan 2007, 04:04

well I like this even with the price increase for those who have so little PCI slots to begin with this is a nice solution, in the past ya having a seperate sound card help in quality and free up cpu cycles but with dual/quad cores thats no longer a real issue so Im in favor for this solution

Paradigm Shifter · 10th Jan 2007, 11:01

Would be interesting to see if there is increased audio noise with it being onboard - or by 'onboard' do MSI mean 'on a little daughterboard that we provide so you don't use a PCI slot up...'?

It not having the X-RAM doesn't mean much. The games that support it (the only one that springs to mind right now is Battlefield 2... but there are probably more) I don't play, so it's not a problem for me, at least. I'm also presuming that it's a full X-Fi, so there won't be any CPU overhead for it?

Tim S · 10th Jan 2007, 11:22

It's on-board, not a daughterboard

DougEdey · 10th Jan 2007, 11:29

I think he means like the DFI Karajan audio modules

Tim S · 10th Jan 2007, 11:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by DougEdey

I think he means like the DFI Karajan audio modules

yeah, it's on the board by the PCI slots (the actual chip is right next to the bottom PCI-Express x16 slot - the bottom expansion slot on the mobo)

DougEdey · 10th Jan 2007, 11:43

Does that mean you have images? We like images, all nice and shiny...

9th Jan 2007, 09:39	#1
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10th Jan 2007, 00:44	#14
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