A few months ago we reported about the X-Fi and nForce-4 compatibility issues. This story still develops and Creative is giving us some more headlines. A Creative fan site has published an update from Creative Labs regarding the issues. It seems that Creative is blaming nVidia?s nForce-4 for these issues; here are the technical details they provided!
We have observed through direct observation of the PCI bus on the nVidia nForce 4 motherboards that when the crackle symptoms are occuring, the Soundblaster X-Fi card PCI bus master memory requests for audio data are being held off (not serviced) for very long intervals.
NGOHQ.com
We have observed through direct observation of the PCI bus on the nVidia nForce 4 motherboards that when the crackle symptoms are occuring, the Soundblaster X-Fi card PCI bus master memory requests for audio data are being held off (not serviced) for very long intervals.
NGOHQ.com