you are true ... but who plays without sound ? no one so the wording is not that wrong anyway ... can't await real benchmarks ... 17% is a bit high

theres been a bit praising up to this new tech. But i thought it was onboard sound at the moment, not a card. Is this true, or is there a card coming out as well. im waiting to see what it actually does.

not compared with audigy 2 ZS. they compared with onboard adio which is fully done by CPU. so no wonder 17% increase. if they would really compare to Audigy 2 ZS the difference would be much much smaller , if any at all

& why would you want to really? The DACS on the Soundcard (Xtreme Fidelity) are likely as good as whatever receiver you'd be connecting to anyway. So why would you want to encode your audio source into a LOSSY format just so you can use a single cable. The reason it sounded better with the nForce motherboards was because they used cheap DACs. The most recent Creative cards don't use crap DACs.