How good/bad is ASUS P5E mobo onboard card

[phexac]

Well, it's technically not onboard. ASUS P5E mobo comes with SupremeFX II daughter sound card. Now that Creative has a memory leak issue, I am considering replacing my Extreme Gamer card with the ASUS card taht came with my mobo. What sort of difference can I expect?

 

[Bateluer]

Probably none. I'm not an audiophile, but the integrated audio on my P5Q SE Plus sounds fine. Drivers are better than anything Creative offers too. And its a Via sound chip too, kinda sad isn't it, that Via makes better drivers than Creative Labs.

 

[Dahak]

my last board and my current one, i've been using the on board one as well. I have notice any difference or loss vs using a creative card.

 

[yyrkoon]

Well, it's technically not onboard. ASUS P5E mobo comes with SupremeFX II daughter sound card. Now that Creative has a memory leak issue, I am considering replacing my Extreme Gamer card with the ASUS card taht came with my mobo. What sort of difference can I expect?

From what I am reading, the audio is onboard, the motherboard just adds a break out box like card.

Barring the memory leak, which I might add should be fixed in time. The dedicated sound card should outperform the onboard video. I did a few tests with Oblivion when it first came out between onboard audio, and a very old Creative sound card. The difference between the two was 5 frames a second in favor of the dedicated card.

Now it is absolutely possible that with multi core CPUs, and the speed of current system that dedicated sound could be rendered all but moot. That is, concerning performance. Sound quality definitely can vary from sound hardware to the next. Whether that difference is discernible varies with usage, and the listener. Personally, I can tell very little if any difference between the two.

I'd say do a test with the card in, then swap in the onboard daughtercard and see if it makes any difference to you. For sound quality, or performance.