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I need a cahintech av710

thanks guys. Microcenter carries them, but for $30. Checking to see if they have any in stock at my local store. I'll pay a couple of extra to go have it in hand now. I am on on-demand kind of guy. If they don't have it in stock, I'll go with your link crim.
 
I was looking for one of these myself, and newegg sold out right before I decided to order it.
 
i got mine a few days ago from www.11cb.com

it looks like they may be sold out or something ... if you click "multimedia" on the left menu, it's the last item on the page, under cool items. the item # is 2710353 if you want to try and call them...
 
Sorry, off-topic a bit but -- if you would -- let me know how it works out for you. Quite curious if it would be that much of an upgrade from my nForce MCP-D... =) TIA.
 
I already have one. been running it for about a month. I only use it for the optical output to my reciever. I am very happy with it for the investment. Until I can pull down oneof the 100+ cards, this one will do.
 
Orinthical said:
Sorry, off-topic a bit but -- if you would -- let me know how it works out for you. Quite curious if it would be that much of an upgrade from my nForce MCP... =) TIA.
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if you have the mcp then its definitely an upgrade, anything sounds better than that imho. The audiophiles seem to love the av710 as well. But if you have the mcp-t then thats a diff story altogether....Best part is the card is so darn cheap, and used ones sell at full price on ebay (if you end up not liking it that is).

Edit: l wonder if this card is being discontinued, it seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. I cant find anybody that carries them except ebay, compgeeks and mwave (?)
 
I keep slacking on getting one.

Sorry, off-topic a bit but -- if you would -- let me know how it works out for you. Quite curious if it would be that much of an upgrade from my nForce MCP-D... =) TIA.
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Using a SS board with Digital out is pretty good (comparable to a Live 5.1 I believe) but using the onboard analog out pretty much sucks. I do use mine with headphones so I'm going to try and pick one up soon since it does have a dedicated amp for two analog inputs. So if your using analog then yeah it'll be an upgrade but if your using digital out then you lose the realtime 5.1 encoding. Other then that I think they are pretty much the same but I could be wrong.
 
Common use definitions:

analog - comp sci: nondigital; sinusoid-like
analog(2) - similarity to something else [not applicable in our usage here]
analogy - an expression of similarity between unlike things [also not applicable]

Also, TBH.... I can't tell much difference between any analog/digital coax/digital optical outputs. The only reason the MCP-T analog sucks is the ALC-650 DAC that it is usually paired with... and it doesn't sound bad unless you have really nice speakers or are depending on it to decode your games (at which point it pops and does other bad stuff).
 
I'm using Optical out from the MCP-D to my HT receiver but all I get is PCM Stereo, not Dolby Digital... except for when the source is DD/DTS, i.e. a DVD. The "DD 5.1 Live" setting in the 5.10 nforce drivers doesn't work on my HTPC's A7N266-VM/AA... for that matter, none of the recent revisions have. /sigh, oh well.
 
Hmm... I didn't have the problem when I had that board. Did it work with just "5.1 speakers?"
 
Aye, it works in "5.1 Speakers" mode, but nothing is received by my receiver if in "5.1 Dolby Digital Live" mode. Tried every driver revision from 2.45 to the current 5.10. The board is an Asus A7N266-VM/AA with the MCP-D and the original nForce1 chipset.
 
well, the guy on the box looks like a complete flippin retard, but other than that, it looks ok.
 
It's almost like the Chaintech card but the DACs are different, the Chaintech uses a Wolfson DAC while the Gainward uses an inferior Cirrus CS4341 capable of 24-bit/96khz (compared to 24/192 for the Chaintech) on the 7/8 channnels. Heres some reviews, be wared though the reviews are very good.
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD02ODc=
http://www.nordichardware.com/reviews/audio/2003/Hollywood71/index.php
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/Gainwardhollywood/
http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/hollywoodahome/hah71.htm
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/showstory.jsp?storyid=5243&upto=0

Personally I'd just stick with the Chaintech because of the DACs.
Heres a good mini review for the chaintech to compare to: http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71477
 
i'll sell ya mine :)

I just bought it like a week ago but realized its not much of a gamers card so i'm prolly gonna get an audigy

throw me a PM
 
AMD T-type said:
i'll sell ya mine :)

I just bought it like a week ago but realized its not much of a gamers card so i'm prolly gonna get an audigy

throw me a PM
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I'll take it if no one else needs it. :D I've been wanting to play with one.
 
I shot him a PM for a price, but will probably pass. I am building this PC for somebody else, so I kind of want to use new parts.
 
Buying AMD's card (namatru I assume thats you?) tonight/tomorrow, hopefully they really are as good as everyone says :)

I think praxis still has a few more of those audigys for $20 shipped each @ genmay, i'm assuming your going to try one of those?
 
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