"The only other thing to really settle on is the actual hit in CPU performance when using the sound card. Running our standard benchmarks, using ZDnet's Audiobench, we found the sound card definitely ate up some extra cycles. Compared to a stock SBLive and a Vortex 2 based card, the Acoustic Edge eats up from 2-5 times more CPU (up to 5% of the CPU, vs. 0.5-2.5% on the other cards). Philips intends on continuing to optimize drivers, but 5% CPU usage is actually quite good, when considering that on the multi speaker tests the QMSS was actually in effect. "

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/H...e_psc706/6.html

I have the card and I think it's top notch. I have qmss off since I don't regularly watch dvd's on my computer.

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