How do I overclock my soundcard?

[muffinman]

is it possible?

 

[Vegito]

? do you want it to play faster music or process more data at once ??

 

[yaethom]

lol...

only from an ATer.....
(I can't figure out a need to overclock a soundcard)

It's like trying to supe up the heat in heated seats in cars. heh.

 

[scoobydooby]

What the hell would be the point of that??
Scoob

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

technically i'm sure you could but basically no

 

[muffinman]

i am overclocking everything else and just was wondering if i could overclock that too

 

[DeathLiRE]

haha...dang thats just too funny....just wanting to make those distorted guitars play a little faster eh?
hahaha

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

well if you are overclocking your FSB to a non standard frequency such as 112mhz, then the pci bus (which is usually sync'ed to this) is running a little faster than it should be, then all the cards on the pci bus are also being overclocked....

hope this helps...

 

[mobutter]

what is easier to overclock.....turtle beach or creativelabs?? what kinda results has everyone gotten???

 

[AluminumStudios]

What tangible benefit is there from overclocking a sound card? Sound is not computationally intensive (for the most part under normal usage.) Your sound quality doesn't drop because your sound card isn't fast enough. Sound is relaitvly fixed with sounds played at specific sample rates and music played at a given speed. It's not like video where you can get more frames/sec in a game.

Anyway, if you must (which I think is really silly) the only way I can think of it is to overclock your front side bus. This often throws off the speed of your PCI effectivly overclocking your PCI devices.

 

[NeonFlak]

LoL, but if we could I think there would be less of a performance hit when using eax and such...

 

[mobutter]

i heard that turtle beach cards are better overclockers than creative lab cards....any truth to this??

 

[cx32m4]

 

[Goldfish]

<< i heard that turtle beach cards are better overclockers than creative lab cards....any truth to this?? >>


I got a SB Live! Value stepping XOC and it overclocked to Audigy levels!

 

[Jen]

i pick myself off the floor now

first time ever i heard about overclocking a sound card


what will we be overclocking next? where does the insanity end


Jen

 

[Acetate]

Well, you could theoretically increase the sampling rate of the D/A conversion.. but that would F*CK up the rest of the soundcard's audio processing..

Interesting concept though!

 

[murphy55d]

do you need ASII to make it work properly ??

 

[sandorski]

Yes, as mentioned by Cosmic_Horror, you can overclock your soundcard by using a non-standard FSB speed. As for whether it will make a difference, I think that the only possible improvement would be had from the increased PCI bandwidth. The only time I could think that this might be needed is perhaps with some kind of intensive music recording processing, but for general gaming/music use overclocking won't help.

 

[Goi]

I too, cannot think of much use in overclocking soundcards, whether it be the PCI bus speed or the DSP speed. The DSPs in current soundcards should be more than powerful enough to handle the tasks handed to them(normal playback, 3D sound and DD/DTS decoding).

 

[Ionizer86]

what is easier to overclock.....turtle beach or creativelabs?? what kinda results has everyone gotten???

LOL! This thread is great!

Funniest in a while!

BTW, warning: somebody burned up a soundcard while trying to overclock! (lol!)

 

[NeoMadHatter]

<< lol...

only from an ATer.....
(I can't figure out a need to overclock a soundcard)

It's like trying to supe up the heat in heated seats in cars. heh. >>



my thoughts exactly...

 

[NesuD]

Anyone know how to overclock that little green led on the front of my case? I want it to blink faster.

 

[InFecTed]

Man I've just overclocked my PSU from 300W to 450W. All I can say everybody should try it

 

[grifterspawn]

Do you know....the muffinman?

 

[FishTankX]

The benefits of overclocking soundcard?
Decreasing host CPU utilization
Tangible benefits?
For the Live! it can be nearly 10FPS in normal game due to the load being taken off the processor
This isn't an issue for an audigy.

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/audigy/page12.asp

This page details Soundcard performance. Now, if we take the most intensive tasks, such as direct 3d audio, let's measure performance, shall we?

Let's call the performance of a Live! an LPU, or live performance unit.

Audio winbench D3D

8 bit 22KHZ Static

Audigy:8.8LPU
GTXP:4.16LPU
Live!:1LPU

16 voices

Audigy:12.78LPU
GTXP:4.86LPU
Live!:1LPU

32 voices

Audigy:24.2LPU
GTXP:8.8LPU
Live!:1LPU

8 bit 22KHZ streaming

8 voice

Audigy:7.2LPU
GTXP:4.9LPU
Live!:1LPU

16 voices

Audigy:7.74LPU
GTXP:4.61LPU
Live!:1LPU

32 voices

Audigy:23.42LPU
GTXP:7.02LPU
Live!:1LPU

16 bit 44KHZ static

8 voice

Audigy:5.34LPU
GTXP:2.8LPU
Live!:1LPU

16 voices

Audigy:6.02LPU
GTXP:3.4LPU
Live!:1LPU

32 voices

Audigy:12.34LPU
GTXP:6.1LPU
Live!:1LPU

16 bit 44KHZ Streaming

8 voice

Audigy:5.56LPU
GTXP:2.46LPU
Live!:1LPU

16 voices

Audigy:6.3LPU
GTXP:4.03LPU
Live!:1LPU

32 voices

Audigy:12.78LPU
GTXP:6.11LPU
Live!:1LPU

The facts?

(Sue me if i'm wrong)
Audigy is roughly 800% faster than the SB Live! under 8 voices at 8 bit 22KHZ in DirectX sound
Audigy is roughly 1026% faster than the SB Live! under 16 voices at 8 bit 22KHZ in DirectX sound
Audigy is roughly 2381%Q) faster than the SB Live! under 32 voices at 8 bit 22KHZ in DirectX sound
Audigy is roughly 545% faster than the SB Live! under 8 voices at 16 bit 44KHZ in DirectX sound
Audigy is roughly 606.5% faster than the SB Live! under 16 voices 16 bit 44KHZ in DirectX sound
Audigy is roughly 1258.5% faster than the SB Live! under 32 voices 16 bit 44KHZ in DirectX sound

Can anyone help me come up with the GTXP numbers?
Maybe a direct comparison of audigy to GTXP... I wanna see how badly the GTXP looses.

Looks like we have the Voodoo2 of sound cards. (Everyone remember how the Voodoo2 destroyed everything avaliable at the time?)
My conclusion?

Under 8bit 22KHZ 32 voices Goldfish's overclock is like overclocking a 486-100 to an AthlonXP 2000+!!!!!!!
That, and I wanna see who's brave nuff to try to voltage mod an Audigy. *chuckles* Or replace the clock generator!