Who allowed these crab fucks a monopoly on sound chips?

Who allowed these crab fucks a monopoly on sound chips?

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The free market. The DACs/amps in some of their stuff is of excellent quality

pretty sure Creative is still around OP, dont be calling it a monopoly just yet you cum burping little bitch

>implying all DACs are manufactured exclusively by Realtek
Actual retard. Saged.

Not a monopoly. But they make good cheap chips, so they get used.

They make the cheapest trash that barely works, you should see the comments on their hardware in the linux source code.

Link?

Their stuff just works

its cheap and mobo manufacturers want to include as much shit as possible on their boards

Because you can build your own sound chip, as speakers and speaker components are available off-the-shelf.

Not monopoly. In macbook is someting else used...

I guess they make billions of those chips, that is why they are cheap, that is why everyone uses them

o i liek raeltek, i lek hwo their chips turn spaekers into miks wehn i do'nt want naywan to lisetn to me.

nonexistent, im a shitposter

I hate this goddamn company so much.

C-Media seems to be #1 when you look at various external DACs.

You're a massive faggot then, they're one of the few vendors who provide docs for open source drivers.

Is there a point in using sound cards though

>Who allowed these crab fucks a monopoly on sound chips?

Anyone using a screen with a resolution of 800x600 who still wants to use IE 6.0, Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6.

When all the horrible SiS, VIA and nForce chipsets got ditched like 10 years ago. I should think it's been 90% Realtek chipsets for sound and LAN on all el cheapo motherboards since the Core2.

Fuckin kekd. Love that they never updated that.

Buy one of these and you'll see.

>run their shitty win installer
>uninstall old version
>sets itself to start at boot
>reboot, install new version
It doesnt give me a good impression

>using their crappy installer instead of manually installing the drivers
You deserve all the suffering.

Blame poorfags.

The fact that no one really cares about sound chips.

It's just a case of some chinese guy dumping several million in a chip plant, making a fuckton of chips and selling em for very cheap.

Just soldier some ps1 sound chips to a pci card and write your own driver.

Also, crab is strong as fuk.

>dumping several million
billion

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There are a half dozen good codec chip manufacturers.

pissed off at them.
no matter what I do, I can't seem to solve the problem with the sound when working in 7/8.1 OS, on an old ASUS 2009 model laptop. When in original OS XP, it works as it should.

>windows
Sasuga tripfag.

What card? I also have an 2009 ASUS laptop and audio is working just fine on everything from Vista to 10 and some Linux distros. It came with 7. Never tried XP directly on it though.

u mad? creative soyboy

>pretty sure Creative is still around OP
Pity you can't say the same about their drivers

>crab fucks
KEK

On macbooks something called cirrus logic is used, if i remember correctly.

Their Wi-Fi cards are absolute crap.
t. RTL8723BE

I got some SmartAudio shit in my ThinkPad E470. I would rather use realtek to be honest.

I run into more NICs from them than sound chips.

Isolation, shielding, software, high impedance compatibility. If you don't have high impedance equipment, you don't experience EM pollution and you don't do mixing you really have no need for one. I guess if you have a 7.1 surround setup you might need one.

snibbedy snab x-D

If it's AC97 you need to turn off driver signature enforcement as their 64 bit driver isn't signed properly

Or install gentoo

Are you people really asking this? Fine...let grampa Sup Forums pull up a chair.

Back in teh early 2000's, Microsoft got fucking tired of Creative drivers crashing their OS. 2006 rolled around and Microsoft released Vista which meant, "Fuck you Creative, you ruined it for everyone, now we will no longer give direct access to sound stack through hardware. Enjoy your software implementation." So, since you can't do nifty hardware sound effects anymore, no one bought fancy 3d sound cards, and any bargain basement AC97 sound chip was the new standard. Not like it fucking matters, sound cards only existed anyway cause CPUs were too slow at the time, but you're too young to remember that neo Sup Forums. Anywho, that's why realtek is in fucking everything and it all sounds the same anyway.

trip filtered.

Nforce was amazing. Your lucky to get that sound quality now, especially nforce 2

i love their website

MCP-T my southbridgefu

I loved my NF7-S with Mobile Barton. Had her at 2.66ghz under water. I bought that board because I had to have Soundstorm, that on-the-fly dolby encoding was a siren song. It was marvelous.

pic related, my loop at the time. Evercool WC-201

I still have my NF7-S, but it's currently 'dead' from badcaps.
One day I'll recap it and setup my old XP2800+ and 9600XT setup.

I hate that. I wonder how small AM4 motherboards we could get if they didn't bloat them with integrated shit.

My NIC driver makes my PC stutter every 10 minutes. It's Realtek.

>youtube.com/watch?v=uihJgvbiMjs

Is there a single soundcard with official Linux drivers?

nobody?

I love realtek. Used computers with their sound cards for all my life. Never had any problem with them.
More than enough for any person except retarded audiophiles who will pay literally 100$ or more for fucking cables.

Only disadvantage now is that they started to use shitty "audio" electrolytic capacitors instead of solid state ones.

aesthetic logo

My ALC drivers are a piece of shit on windows, the equalizer does almost nothing and it clips at high frequencies
When I use Linux with alsa it sounds awesome

the chip/codec itself is fine but the implementation of it on the mobo is often shit. they could put some headphone amps to hp outputs and make the sound quality much better and proper isolation so gpus dont make noises.

Searched to resolve this online where people experienced similar problems, but no matter what version of the Realtek card I downloaded (current version on XP - 5.10.0.5821), it didn't work. So for now, I've handled the problem with some Chinese bullshit of an external card, and it gets the job done. But it's a pain in the ass from time to time, I can tell you that.

doesnt realtek chips just work on windows? last time i used windows it had the drivers to make it work after installing it and win update would download the rest if something was missing. this was on win7 tho so might be different if you use later shit.

It's installed for sure. But when playing music (or any kind of sound) while doing something at the same time it will constantly stutter.
I've even set in the sound setting from 24bit back to 16bit sound, hoping it would fix the problem this annoyance... nope. no dice.

You can integrate it on the processor board, but then you want to isolate and shield it a little. Even a little shielding can make a weak codec chip perform better.

ESS is still around, along with others. You can get premium sound if you look around. Or integrate it onto your own project.

Why pump all that mixed-signal crap through your CPU anyway? You need specialized hardware already to talk to the PHY anyway. So you might as well add the codec chip which also gives you other useful stuff as well. And a good sound ADC uses much higher bit ranges and much lower sampling freqs than what you'd use for other applications (especially RF). Certainly different from what you find on most FPGAs.

The main argument for using a separate audio codec chip is to isolate the signal for quality reasons. But a secondary good argument is that analog is a pain in the ass if you're mainly skilled at digital. So you're not just isolating the analog signal, you're also pushing the black magic analog mixed signal expertise into a corner of the board where you can outsource it to someone who just knows that crap.

RIP aureal

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