There are a few different ways.
1. If your machine is a brand-name machine, you can search the manufacturers website for details on how your machine is configured. You should be able to find out what soundcard is in there from them.
2. You can open up the machine & if you dont have an onboard soundcard (a soundcard which is built into the motherboard) remove the soundcard and read the numbers off the chip. Usually the largest chip on the card has the numbers you need. If you are using onboard sound, you will need to find out the make and model of your motherboard and google that to find out what soundcard chipset is used on it.
3. You can download and run software to tell you what is in your machine. I frequently use a freeware program called "unknown device identifier" for this purpose. It will give you information on all the hardware in your pc, including your audio card. I will include a link below.
There is no difference between a laptop and desktop CPU. DIFFERENCE IN USE: LAPTOP - is intended for mobile people but in reality we put it at the top of table or desk - better we call it as "NOTEBOOK" only, then we have no problem in using it at the top of table. DESKTOP - is intended at the top of a desk, but in reality or mostly installed below or under the table or desk. Also they call it as CPU??? So what shall we call the real CPU (Processor) in the motherboard? POCKET PC - is intended for mobile people and to placed in jeans pocket, but in reality we put it in our clutch bag, etc. or at the side of belly belt… ADDITIONAL INFO: You will find and read this Warning in all Notebook User's Manual... DO NOT PUT THE NOTEBOOK PC ON YOUR LAP OR OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY TO AVOID INJURY FROM HEAT!
After the sound card is completely installed, Windows might detect additional devices. Sound card sometimes include embedded features, such as MIDI Wave Audio, SB16 Emulation, Game Port, and so on.
By basic definition a multimedia computer needs to have both Audio and Video capabilities. Today, even the most basic of computers meet the general requirements to be considered multimedia. However the quality of the multimedia experience is affected these components:
Processor/RAM: More powerful processors with more memory improve Gaming types of "media"
Graphics: If you are gaming or watching High Definition movies a better GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) will increase your frame-rate and give you higher resolutions along with optional features including multi-monitor support, HDMI output, 3D capability and on-board codec decompression which frees up your computer's main processor for other things.
Sound: Stereo output is the norm. But many sound cards are capable of full surround output up to 7.1 with either digital output through HDMI or optical TOSlinc.
Media Source: Your favorite movies and music have to come from somewhere, right? So your multimedia computer will usually have some sort of optical drive such as a CD, DVD or Bluray drive. Media can also be stored on flash drives, hard drives or streamed via Ethernet, wi-fi or other wired or wireless networks.
Software: I know, this is not "hardware" by it's very definition. But should be considered as well. A great multimedia computer is useless without the appropriate software. For instance, if you plan on playing Bluray movies in your computer, you will want research the few software suites that even support Bluray playback.
"State specification or special features of one hardware and compare it to previous model?"
It handles all computation to do with displaying a picture on the screen. It relieves the overhead on the main CPU and memory, by having it's own.
Most motherboards have a graphics chip, but a dedicated card is an improvement, for fast 3D graphics.
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What you need is an USB recording interface with a microphone preamp (like M-Audio Fast Track), they usually cost $100 and up.
Audio quality (or fidelity) and how and what we perceive good sound to be is very subjective to humans.
Most sound cards that are regarded as "the best" in the consumer or in the semi-professional market are designed to accurately reproduce the audio from the source (the computer,cd player, mp3, microphone) as accurately as possible without adding any modifications (artefacts) to the sound.
The idea is we hear the recording as the recording engineer intended.
Most 3D sound cards create the 3D spacial effect by using phase cancellation tricks, where they take a small amount of the audio from one channel, invert the phase and put it through the other channel. This cancellation of frequencies gives the listener the physco-acoustic effect of sound coming further out the speakers, perhaps even from behind the listener at some frequencies. This effect maybe regarded by some people as pleasing and desirable but by others (myself included) as a distortion to the sound and not something I would like to add to the sound.
Is 3D sound card the best audio? - It you think it is...it is! Human hearing is very subjective.
The number of bits of data being processed by the card. This increases the number of channels as well as the fidelity a sound card is able to produce.
As long as it has a PCI or PCIe bus on the board.
Embedded sound cards are frequently found to be poor quality, even on the premium brands of computer. Laptops are generally worse than desktops.
An external sound card will usually provide much better results, even if it one of the lower cost units. For studio work, spend $100 - $200 and you will have a card with great quality.
Green audio out.
Blue audio in.
Red mic in.
S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.
It is a monitoring system built into hard drives to detect failures and hard drive health. The practical use of S.M.A.R.T. is to predict possible hard drive failure before it happens. This allows the user to save data off the hard drive before it completely fails.
An audio interface allows you to connect instruments and mics to your computer via firewire of USB. These usually contain the a/d converters and eliminates the need for a sound card because the processing is done within the interface itself. Interfaces come in a variety of styles and sizes depending on what exactly you need. Personally I run the MBox 2 Mini. It has two 1/4" inputs and an XLR input as well as coming with Pro Tools LE.
Interfaces eliminate the need for a mixing console because all of your mixing can then be done within your computer. Personally I like being able to move faders and things like that, but for the price, I can live with just clicking and dragging. It makes editing incredibly simple.
The file rthdcpl dot exe is an executable file associated with the Realtek audio Control Panel,
An Input device is a hardware component that is used to enter data and instructions into a computer.
There are three general types of Input devices:
1)Keyboards
2)Pointing devices(e.g:mouse,pointing stick,touch screen,graphic tablet, joy stick etc)
3)Source data entry devices(e.g:(1)scaning devices i.e;barcode reader,magnetic-ink character recognition reader(MICR), smart cards, imaging system, etc and (2)audio/video devicesi.e; audio input devices, video input devices and digital camera)