#3376497 - 08/28/11 02:50 AM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Onboard sound for me. Back in the day, I used a SoundBlaster PCI 512 that I moved between a couple of builds. But at some point I tried the onboard and it worked perfectly well. My latest build has onboard too from the beginning.
I have had zero compatibility issues, and if the audio is somehow degraded over the SoundBlaster, I can't hear it from my chair.
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#3376507 - 08/28/11 03:08 AM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme. I have AMD High Definition onboard sound too, but it's disabled in favor of the Soundblaster. Cheers! Rick...
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#3376508 - 08/28/11 03:12 AM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Onboard sound because I use a USB headset anyways.
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#3376517 - 08/28/11 03:19 AM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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My previous system had on-board sound. This system has a SB X-Fi, I personally, can not tell the difference in the sound quality between the two systems. The addition of a sound card *does* allow me to use four speakers where the on-board didn't. The sound card is capable of 5.1 surround I just don't have the equipment plus all the other effects (EAX) that Creative became famous for, which are pretty useless to me. While a dedicated sound card would probably unburden the CPU a little, you're probably not going to notice the difference.
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#3376537 - 08/28/11 04:00 AM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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I use a Soundblaster X-Fi gamer.
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#3376724 - 08/28/11 12:25 PM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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I use onboard sound for gaming. I have an external usb soundcard for using Reason or other audio software. I also have a usb headset.
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#3376750 - 08/28/11 01:36 PM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Soundblaster X-Fi soundcard here
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#3376777 - 08/28/11 02:25 PM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Onboard X-Fi works great for me no problems, no reason to use up a slot for a dedicated sound card IMHO.
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#3376780 - 08/28/11 02:33 PM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Onboard X-Fi works great for me no problems, no reason to use up a slot for a dedicated sound card IMHO. Sure, if you have onboard X-Fi - if you have some crappy onboard sound device, a dedicated sound card is well worth the money. The onboard sound sounds great to me, but I am not an audiofile and dont listen to music on my pc. Does having a soundcard these days make games run better by freeing up resources? I'm pretty sure I noticed a difference in gaming.
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#3376895 - 08/28/11 07:13 PM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Like my sig says, Creative SB X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro / Logitech Z-5500 Love my SB. If you have a good set of speakers, there's no comparison to onboard sound, it's simply at a different level. If you don't like having control to optimize sound, then I would understand. If you use basic speakers, then probably not worth it, but for good sound, like graphics, you've got to do it right.
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#3376908 - 08/28/11 07:39 PM
Re: Poll: Onboard sound or Soundcard?
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Like my sig says, Creative SB X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro / Logitech Z-5500 Love my SB. If you have a good set of speakers, there's no comparison to onboard sound, it's simply at a different level. If you don't like having control to optimize sound, then I would understand. If you use basic speakers, then probably not worth it, but for good sound, like graphics, you've got to do it right. I must admit I've never used the surround or advanced features of my older SoundBlaster, or my current 7 channel onboard audio. I game through headphones almost exclusively, just regular 2 channel headphones. Usually Sennheiser HD465, but also Grado Labs SR80, Koss PRO 4AA, and Audio Technica AD700 on occasion. I usually use my "better" headphones for occasional DVD or music listening more than gaming, driven by my Headroom headphone amp out of the onboard sound card line out. Judging the audio quality through say, the Audio Technica AD700/Headroom, fed from either my onboard sound or my dedicated audio components is to my ears very close. I think the worst problem from the PC audio is RFI noise which while incredibly faint (high frequency ringing like line noise), is still there. I'm not sure an expensive sound card would fix this, since 12 miles of tangled power and signal cables behind my PC case would still be there. My PC speakers are a pair of old Bose bookshelf speakers, used almost exclusively to provide general music for the room, or if I play a video if someone is visiting. About as advanced as I ever got with my old SoundBlaster was occasional EAX support, with a bit of the hardware effects. But I had lots of trouble getting this to work smoothly back in those days. I think just one or two games every really "rocked" with these features as I recall. For many games, they just had to run in vanilla modes, or even software sound output back then on my PC. This was a large part of why I never seriously considered spending more on sound hardware.
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