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Posted by Thomas
McGuire on January 22, 2001
Company: Videologic Product:
SonicFury
Test
System
Below
is the system that the SonicFury was installed into, along
with any other relevant information.
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Pentium
3 700E.
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128MB
RAM - Mushkin
High Performance REV2 PC133 222.
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Voodoo
5 5500 AGP.
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Abit
SH6 motherboard.
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DTT
2500 Speakers & Sound Works.
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6X
Pioneer DVD drive.
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Generic
floppy disk drive.
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Diamond
Supra Max modem - PCI.
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17”
monitor.
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Microsoft
Intellimouse Explorer.
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Logitech
keyboard.
All
latest drivers are installed (Official drivers that is)
& any other relevant system updates. Unless noted
otherwise BIOS settings & others were set as shown in
the appropriate Tweaking
guides.
Speaker
setup/ VersaJack
The
SonicFury offers a wide variety of speaker setups it can
support. These are available via the SonicFury Control Panel
utility in the Windows Control Panel. The Main section
contains all settings related to Speaker/VersaJack
selection. It also contains a diagram showing the
input/outputs on the back of the card. This setup diagram
changes appropriately with the Speaker Mode & VersaJack
selected. This is a fairly nice feature, no doubt some users
out there maybe unsure as to where to plug a Microphone, or
whatever into the card. This dynamic diagram should be a
great convenience for many as a result.
Choices
available for the Speaker Mode setting are as follows.
As
you can see, the SonicFury offers a good deal of support,
particularly with the aid of the VersaJack. The VersaJack is
a 3.5mm (1/8”) jack port that can be used as an Analog
Out, Digital Out or Analog In connection.
Analog
Out. When this is selected the VersaJack’s 3.5mm (1/8”)
jack to dual phono cable is used to connect to a subwoofer (Red
connector) & the centre speaker (White connector). When in this mode (6 Speaker of course you’d
be using for Speaker Mode) you can enable a Virtual 5.1 mode
for use in games although this is pretty much unrecommended.
Digital
Out. When this mode is selected you can use the
VersaJack’s 3.5mm (1/8”) jack to dual phono cable to
output AC3 encoded audio to a Dolby Digital/DTS decoder (Red
connector) or output PCM to a stereo channel by using the White
connector. You can also use this setting to connect to some
portable devices, e.g. Sony Minidisc for digital recording.
Analog
In. This mode provides a secondary analog line input similar
to the Line in port for quad recording from external audio
devices such CD-players or tape decks.
As
you can probably guess by now the Versa in VersaJack must
stand for Versatile, & that it certainly is.
Those
using 2 Speaker/Headphone setups can benefit by enabling the
3D Stereo Enhancement feature, which provides a spatial
enhancement effect for 3D audio effects when listening with
either of these audio devices.
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