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If you are using onboard audio, Im going to go to your house and....

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My on-board audio is much better than the Audigy sound card I had. Most on-board are made within the post few years on par with an Audigy 2 on any decent motherboard. Also you need to have the proper equipment to even notice the difference and chances are since you're making a post like that you don't because people who spend a lot on audio equipment don't feel the need to post crap like that.
 
BoomerD said:
My Soundblaster Live! card didn't work with Vista...and none of the modified drivers would make it work either...so it's in a box of junk hardware.

I agree that onboard sound might not be quite as good as a high quality dedicated sound card...but it seems to be every bit as good as my SB Live! card ever was.
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Same situation as me - I upgraded to Vista the day it was released, and have never been able to use my SB Live since. Creative can suck my fat dick.
 
Edit: Troll thread, just like his XP thread.

I have a Chaintech AV710. Using the Wolfson DACs out to my HT reciever, bookshelf speakers and subwoofer.

I would use the onboard audio chip, but the DACs aren't as good as the Wolfsons on my AV710.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Creative drivers didn't work with Windows 7 when I upgraded, so I pitched my Audigy 2 ZS into my box of outdated hardware and haven't looked back. Onboard isn't as good, no, but at least it works, which is more than I can say for Creative's drivers.
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I'm using my Audigy 2 ZS with Windows 7 64-bit and it works just fine...
 
FelixDeKat said:
Who in the world would use onboard audio? Thats messed up if ax me. Ive been using Creative cards faithfully and reliably since 1993 and have NEVER looked back.

Sure I tried onboard audio once, I even have it on my laptop. It is and always will be flat, one dimensional, crap. Lacking clear highs and defined lows it sound like just a bunch of midrange noise. :colbert:

Dont even try to defend your onboard audio. You cant.
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If you haven't upgraded since 1993 any on board audio in the last five years will smoke that creative card.

Wrong forum noob
 
anyway most don't use onboard sound. it jus thappens that they got a great soundcard and they stuck everything else on it to increase the cost.
 
waggy said:
anyway most don't use onboard sound. it jus thappens that they got a great soundcard and they stuck everything else on it to increase the cost.
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Dear Mr. waggy,

I wish that were the case. Unfortunately you have an increase in the number of mouth breathers out there that think that cheesy ass onboard audio is equivalent to a quality Creative sound card.

Real audiophiles use SB cards & I pity the foo who thinks otherwise.
 
Aikouka said:
I use on-board sound, and I couldn't care less if you don't like it! 🙂

I assume this post came from my Creative-hatin' story that I posted in your silly Windows XP thread? 😛
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Precisely.

I was going to reply, but Ive been wanting to rant about onboard audio for the longest and you gave me the gumption to do it.

Way to go, sonny.
 
i use onboard sound..... which i run to my tube amp connected to my bose speakers using monster cables...... PURE SOUND QUALITY
 
FelixDeKat said:
Who in the world would use onboard audio?
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Damn-near everyone.

Didn't know these kind of snobs still exist.

Unless you're capturing extremely high-quality audio samples, a dedicated sound card doesn't do much (if anything) for today's users.


FelixDeKat said:
Sure I tried onboard audio once, I even have it on my laptop. It is and always will be flat, one dimensional, crap. Lacking clear highs and defined lows it sound like just a bunch of midrange noise. :colbert:

Dont even try to defend your onboard audio. You cant.
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I don't want a soundcard to tamper with my audio. It will always lead to undesired effects. Anyway, it sounds like you're applying attributes of speakers to the sound card.

GlacierFreeze said:
Pearity -1/100
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Is it a parody?

CRXican said:
troll thread
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Probably.
 
Good to see the OP apparently got better since he had big health issues that had limited his trolling for a while there.

Why are you not using a DAC with your laptop? Its ridiculously easy to upgrade your audio these days, there's tons of excellent USB DACs, HDMI and SPDIF out is a lot more common as well.

Onboard sound is actually generally pretty decent, although its pretty cheap and easy to upgrade as well.

Creative has been good to poor off and on forever. They'll do something good and then rest on it for years. Then they'll finally make an improvement, but they'll improve one area and leave another poor (they focused on sound processing and ignored fidelity until very recently).
 
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Onboard audio is fine for just about anyone short of serious audiophiles. The DACs on onboard are at least on par with an Audigy2 nowadays with all of the HD audio codecs out there.

With EAX gone since vista, there are no gaming improvements by getting a dedicated soundcard either.
Unless you like an x-fi feature such as crystallization, you'd get far more audio benefits by spending that money on your audio gear, like some of my headphones right here :awe:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2175841
 
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astroidea said:
Onboard audio is fine for just about anyone short of serious audiophiles. The DACs on onboard are at least on par with an Audigy2 nowadays with all of the HD audio codecs out there.

With EAX gone since vista, there are no gaming improvements by getting a dedicated soundcard either.
Unless you like an x-fi feature such as crystallization, you'd get far more audio benefits by spending that money on your audio gear.
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well, that is the issue...everyone thinks they are an audiophile or at least is close to having the ears of one.
 
I still use my shitty onboard audio because I can't afford anything better right now. I can definitely hear a difference in-between it and my Zune HD's DAC. (I'm using Sennheiser HD205's)
 
Gibson486 said:
well, that is the issue...everyone thinks they are an audiophile or at least is close to having the ears of one.
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Yeah but few actually have audiophile equipment.
If your headphones/speakers cost under $200, I can almost guarantee you that if you spent the money that you spent on the sound card into better headphones/speakers, you'd hear a DRASTICALLY greater sound improvement over spending it on the sound card.
 
Almost on the topic...

My laptop has onboard Conexant audio. It is supposed to be able to use the same jack for input and output. I can't figure out how to use it as an input device (attach an mp3 player to play through the pc speakers). Anyone know where the setting might be to flip the jack from output to input?
 
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