Would it have benefits?
Bit confused as to what you want to do... explain?
You may have heard about sound benefits from upgrading the op amps or the capacitors on sound card (by upgrading I mean soldering off the old ones and putting on better aftermarket ones), so I was wondering if similar benefits could be had from upgrading these components on a video card as well.kylef wrote:
Bit confused as to what you want to do... explain?
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That sounds like quite a risk for such an expensive piece of hardware.
Heh, that's assuming what you do it to was so expensive in the first place.aimless wrote:
That sounds like quite a risk for such an expensive piece of hardware.
I very much doubt that you would get any appreciable gain even if you managed to actually find the spec sheets and appropriate components. Video cards are much more complex and powerful than consumer sound cards._j5689_ wrote:
Heh, that's assuming what you do it to was so expensive in the first place.aimless wrote:
That sounds like quite a risk for such an expensive piece of hardware.
Which is why you should try it out on an MX400 first_j5689_ wrote:
Heh, that's assuming what you do it to was so expensive in the first place.aimless wrote:
That sounds like quite a risk for such an expensive piece of hardware.
Doubt it, as most graphic cards already have top of the line components on them.
Sound cards and graphics cards are different. On a sound card, changing capacitators might help a bit, but on a video card, the GPU is the limiting component.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Modern sound cards are limited more by software than hardware.
Don't do it. All you can get is broken gfx card and that's not what you want, right? You can get spare parts by soldering off components and replacing the broken ones on some other card. You won't get ANY difference by replacing the caps... that is just nuts.... modern gfx cards have pretty good quality caps anyway. The new ones even have all solid capacitors.
All in all, DON'T DO IT.
All in all, DON'T DO IT.
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1. The card will most likely have high quality ones already
2. Sound cards =/= graphics cards - modern graphics cards have millions of transistors/capacitors on them.
3. I doubt any difference could be seen anyway (and if there was it would be miniscule). Just think of how little (relatively) improvement OCing gives.
2. Sound cards =/= graphics cards - modern graphics cards have millions of transistors/capacitors on them.
3. I doubt any difference could be seen anyway (and if there was it would be miniscule). Just think of how little (relatively) improvement OCing gives.
