Originally posted by: Assimilator1
This driver fix may or may not resolve PCI bus/SB timing problems however, that are well known and documented for NForce chipsets and the X-Fi resulting in the infamous hissing/cracking/popping problems many have experienced
Not again! ,Nvidia had this problem with the Nfrc2 chipsets! :roll: ,at least on the Asus mbrd anyway ,not sure about others.
Thx for the heads up chizow
FYI ,I couldn't keep my Q6600 stable at 3.15GHz ,kept BSOD'ing ,though I am wondering if its some sort of software problem as I wasn't testing it with P95 at the time.
Sadly, I don't think the SB has changed much, if at all since the NF2 lol. Chipsets are definitely the weakest link in terms of progress when you look at the main components in a PC That's a nice OC btw considering the low voltage. I'll be looking to upgrade to a Q6600 pretty soon as well.
Originally posted by: Puffnstuff
I haven't had any problems with my mb and x-fi except for the crappy creative drivers that are few and far between
Hmmm your sig seems to indicate otherwise. I'm also pretty sure I read a post where you had very similar problems to my own. I only took notice of it because our components were very similar.
I don't think all the blame can be placed on Creative though simply because the problems only arise under certain conditions and configurations. The problems with the X-Fi and NF chipsets are well documented although they don't seem as big a problem as they were with the NF4 chipsets.
For me, the X-Fi ran fine under XP on my P5N-E. Also ran fine with the P6N in Vista with only 2GB. The P6N wouldn't run anything stably and was very sluggish when I added 2GB; updating my BIOS to 1.03 from 1.00 fixed this but broke the X-Fi as a result. Months later, Creative releases a driver that fixes the problem but MS also releases numerous hot fixes that address systems with 4GB+ in that time frame (including some other big problems, like USB devices).
So in the end, there were just problems with resource management (assignment of interrupts or memory addresses etc.) between the board/chipset's ACPI, Vista and Creative's drivers. I'm totally confident the problems could've been fixed with a change to any of those, just as I'm confident a future BIOS or Vista hot fix could break the X-Fi again.