My comment didn't address built-in (integrated motherboard) sound cards. I haven't had any trouble testing them, but don't actually use them except for desktop PC sounds and such.
73, Larry N8LP Wes Stewart wrote: > I'm sure you're correct, but I went to the FW card because of problems with > the built-in sound card. Presumably that had the least overhead of all. > > Wes N7WS > > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Larry Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> From: Larry Phipps <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 69, Issue 53 >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:56 AM >> I think you'll find that the FW card >> takes fewer resources than a USB card, at least that's what >> I've found as a general rule. On my system anyway, the PCI >> sound cards take the least resources, followed by FW, >> followed by USB. The same is generally true of serial ports. >> If you have a desktop PC, always lean towards PCI interfaces >> rather than USB if you have the slots to do so. >> >> FWIW, I have 6 sound cards installed on a 2.8GHz P4 without >> problems, but the USB cards add about 50% to the CPU load >> when they're running. >> >> Larry N8LP >> >> >> >> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:35:17 -0800 (PST) >> From: Wes Stewart <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] PCI Express sound card for >> digimodes >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected], >> G4ILOJulian <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >> >> Hi Lance, >> >> Hmmm... I don't think so. The computer has a 2.3 GHz >> Core2 Duo processor and 2 GB of RAM. As I said, but >> not clearly enough, I gave up on the LP-Pan (for now anyway) >> so it wasn't running. The only thing running was >> whichever RTTY/log software and Firefox, which I use for >> looking at Internet spots. Since in some of these >> contests I was in an unassisted category, even that wasn't >> always open. >> >> Regards, >> >> Wes >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
