Best PCI slot for soundc

Hi, I have Sound Blaster Audigy 4.
I have 5 PCI slots and all of them are free. Does it matter, what slot I put the Audigy 4 in?
Are there any performance differences between the PCI slots?

Skynet06 wrote:
Well, I now disabled all the unnecessary devices (COM ports, USB ports, FireWire ports, etc.) Let?s see, IRQ?s 2,3,4,5,7,0,,8,9 seems to be free. I have Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard. This info is from the manual: "IRQ assignments for this motherboard" INT A INT B INT C INT D PCI Slot shared PCI Slot 2 shared PCI Slot 3 shared PCI Slot 4 used PCI Slot 5 shared Gigabit LAN shared Onboard RAID shared Onboard 394 shared Serial ATA shared AGP Slot shared Manual says that IRQ 5?s standard function is for soundcard (sometimes LPT2) Manual doesn?t say which PCI Slot uses IRQ 5.Message Edited by Skynet06 on 0-2-2006 07:46 PM
If you do not have SATA HD's in use and/or RAID set up then you can disable those controllers and put your sound card into PCI slot 3.
The other 2 options to put your card into are
- slot 2 which is shared with your onboard NIC (disable NIC on Device Manager when you play 'heavy' games. You can also change the PCI latench for nic to 0 and increase PCI latency for sound card to 64 or 28 (link to DL PCI Latency tool can be found if you search this forum)
- slot 4 which is shared with some 'unknown' controller/device/other action ?
For the IRQ 5 question; you find explanation for this if you searcg for terms StandardPC and ACPI.
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 0-22-2006 06:36 AM

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