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    Sound keeps studdering.

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by The Biles, Jan 27, 2009.

  1. The Biles

    The Biles Notebook Evangelist

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    Has anyone else had this problem? Randomly I will have sound from music or games just studder. It happens every few seconds so it gets extremely annoying. At first I thought it was my external speakers, but I unplugged them and it studdered on the system speakers. Then I thought it was because the drive that my songs were on was compressed, so I copied my music to my main HDD, but they still studder. I've also updated my Reaktek Audio driver to the latest version (2.14, I believe). Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this?
     
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  2. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Driver conflicts, possibly, otherwise, possibly undue FSB latency that might be traceable to the much higher cache coherency overhead of the Q6600 (all current Intel quadcores are actually ersatz quads - they're really two dualcore dies slapped together, as a consequence, to maintain cache coherency across the dies, the FSB must be used because there is no dedicated cross-die communication bus; this problem will go away entirely when Nehalem/i7 is introduced).
     
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  3. theriko

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    Think you copied that from an old post...
     
    theriko, Jan 27, 2009
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    Actually, that's what I recalled from memory about the last time I ran on, and on, and on, about the subject, although I should probably have been a little more careful and qualified that with "probably" - who knows what Nehalem will, or will not, fix until it actually gets out here.
     
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    but i7's already out...
     
    theriko, Jan 28, 2009
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    Been out for a good month or so now. I'm so confused at why everybody keeps talking like its not out yet...
     
    emike09, Jan 28, 2009
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  7. Shyster1

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    In notebooks?
     
    Shyster1, Jan 28, 2009
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    no, but the basic architecture aint gonna change...
     
    theriko, Jan 28, 2009
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