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Video? You mean that chip on the motherboard?

Video? You mean that chip on the motherboard?

Posted Jul 3, 2008 9:27 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: Video? You mean that chip on the motherboard? by man_ls
Parent article: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)

Today, if you want high-quality audio you use a -digital- output from your computer and let
your external amplifier do Digital-analog-conversion AND amplification.

No sense in having half a dozen separate digital-to-analogue circuits of high quality when a
single one will do just fine.



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