NVIDIA nForce APU Review @ 3D Sound Surge

Thanks to M2 for pointing this one out – 3D Sound Surge have posted a comprehensive review of NVIDIA’s nForce APU (Audio Processing Unit). This will tell you everything you need to know (and more) about the APU, SoundStorm, Dolby Digital encoding, etc and also compares performance with popular external sound cards:

In this reference audio processing unit (APU) review we cover in-depth just what the nForce and nForce2 motherboards, both of which use the identical audio technology, brings to the table, cutting through the hype and misconceptions. Among other things we uncover that while the high profile DICE feature works exactly as advertised there are other results that we think will even excite those gamers who don’t need the connectivity offered by the DICE. The reference review will also look at other aspects of the nForce including more details on connectivity, benchmarks, audio quality results using the RightMark tool and more. What we don’t cover in our review are non-audio features. For more details on those features you can check out NVIDIA’s nForce site where you can also find links to additional reviews as well as motherboard manufacturers and system builders using the nForce 1 and nForce 2.

One other thing we will mention up front is this is a lengthy review. If you don’t want to read a lot then you can head straight to the last page for the overall summary, but you will by doing so miss out on the in-depth detail.

NVIDIA nForce APU @ 3dss