Sound Card: Are they Useless?

[A True Folder]

Another good reason to get a sound card is FPS, yes that's right, Frames Per Second, gaming fps will increase if you remove the sound load from the cpu.



EDIT: Removed reference to the spammer as he is "out of here" ... goooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnneee lmao

 

[ohnoes]

use the sound card

 

[_-..zKiLLA..-_]

Lol, completely false. Realtek onboard sound is crap. The HD is a scam, that's like getting a filet mignon at McDonalds.

If you paid any more than $50 for your speakers, you NEED a sound card to get the best quality out of them.

thats kinda true but i have a really nice stereo (Pioneer) and a crappy Realtek ALC200 sound and it sounds alright, i never said its was bomb as hell, it ALRIGHT...
+my connections suck ass, it was just a bunch of old wires i spliced together that i found in my closet...

 

[freestyler105]

thats kinda true but i have a really nice stereo (Pioneer) and a crappy Realtek ALC200 sound and it sounds alright, i never said its was bomb as hell, it ALRIGHT...
+my connections suck ass, it was just a bunch of old wires i spliced together that i found in my closet...

So your "really nice" speakers are going to waste because you have a crappy sound card. And crappy cables.

 

[OTSS]

Well now the next question would be since I am getting Z-5500's for christmas, Which sound card is best? I don't want to buy a $250 sound card but I wouldn't mind having better than onboard. I want to know which would make them sound best before hardly noticing a difference if I went a step higher. If you know what I mean.

 

[MikeReiner]

Cheap Aiwa stereo and speakers (that sound good at high volume, decent bass as well).

I've only got onboard audio. As I said in another thread, when I got the money to burn, I'll buy a decent sound card and speakers.... just.. not right now. I'm content as is for now.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Exactly...I have the Logitech Z-5500s, a $300 speaker setup. Anyone who uses onboard sound with these is really missing out.

Yeah, my friend has the Z-5500's as well and is using onboard sound on his Asus mobo, realtek sound. He went to someone else's house who had Z-5500's and a soundcard and listened to them and then listened to his again, he thought he got a bum set of speakers!.....lol Thats the difference. It's not even a matter of being an audiophile or not, it's a matter of, do you want good sound or not? And with such good speakers, you're going to hear all the defects in the sound from the onboard soundcard.

 

[pooker]

Depends who you ask , I am not to good with sound quality I have a hard time telling the difference between the sound quality of a bose and sony.

 

[OTSS]

So which is a good sound card. Anyone got an answer to my question from end of page 1?

 

[freestyler105]

If you can find the Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic, that would be a good card for you.