Phantasm66
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Along with the Grantsdale and Alderwood motherboards using the 925 and 915 chipsets, Intel has introduced a number of improvements which we have previously reported on and discussed. PCI Express is one improvement, and here is another - HD Audio.
There are some wonderful improvements in PC audio coming our way with this. There's a single, unified audio driver planned. Also, the solutions will support up to 15 simultaneous audio streams, supporting resolutions up to and including 192KHz/24-bit to enable two-channel playback for DVD-Audio and enough bandwidth for 96KHz/24-bit multichannel DVD-A. Oh, and its also possible for multiple codecs on a single motherboard to operate autonomously - allowing different numbers of streams to be routed through each codec at different sampling rates.
More here.
There are some wonderful improvements in PC audio coming our way with this. There's a single, unified audio driver planned. Also, the solutions will support up to 15 simultaneous audio streams, supporting resolutions up to and including 192KHz/24-bit to enable two-channel playback for DVD-Audio and enough bandwidth for 96KHz/24-bit multichannel DVD-A. Oh, and its also possible for multiple codecs on a single motherboard to operate autonomously - allowing different numbers of streams to be routed through each codec at different sampling rates.
More here.