Do you use Onboard sound or a Sound card?

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Sniper82

Lifer
Feb 6, 2000
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I've owned SB Live,SB Audigy,SB Audigy 2 and ZS and have found myself coming back to onboard sound. Yeah I could tell a difference in sound but never a $50+(used) difference so I always ended up selling within a month or 2 of owning them. It would take alot to get me to buy another to be honest.
 

knght990

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Jun 3, 2006
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I use a seperate sound card. The AC onboard sound is usually software driven and eats up CPU. So i use an old Audigy instead.
-TL
 
May 20, 2006
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I use an Audigy SE I recently upgraded from onboard not only was I able to raise audio settings but video too cause of increase in FPS.
 

happy medium

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Jun 8, 2003
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I have a Realtek AC97 onboard sound. I also have a soundblaster live just sitting in my desk. Would I benifit with a frame rate increase if I put it in? If so how much?