On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm partial to SoundBlaster Audigy series sound cards, which typically
include
a firewire port as well, but I don't think that its any better
than on-board digital audio outputs and firewire these days.
FYI & FWIW: From what I read in "Maximum PC", the major drawback to
onboard sound cards is that their analog output electronics tend to be
somewhat noisy compared to a card. That is to say, onboard sound is
more likely to pick up interference from your CPU, RAM, hard disks,
etc. (They also ding onboard sound for not having good accelerated 3D
performance, but that only matters for games.)
1, 2 or 3: GigaBit ETHERNET Ports - if planning on streaming HDTV
through house
1 is plenty for most people. ... I think you'd need to invest
in a fairly high-speed disk array ...
I concur here. Your typical HD can sustain maybe 50 MByte/sec, if
it's a good one. That's 400 Mbit/sec. And streaming video isn't the
same as raw disk reads. For that matter, in many systems, you will
saturate the I/O bus before you saturate gig E. Even assuming all
that, unless you have a high-end switch that can do trunking, multiple
ports likely won't help you.
1 or 2 PCI slots for tuner cards
Or maybe even 3, from what Jarod has been saying. Of course, he's
rather a "hard core" user.
-- Ben
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