Onboard vs. PCI sound

[CharlesMcKinney]

I am going to be upgrading my motherboard to a Soltek K8TPro-939. I have wondered this for awhile, but have not really bothered with it. I have always used onboard sound, and I was wondering whether using a PCI soundcard as opposed to onboard sound would yield performance gains?

 

[Jeffyboy]

depends on which card you get... but yes... PCI audio will be better... better signal to noise ratio. Maybe more features.

Jeff

 

[CharlesMcKinney]

I'm not talking about sound performance, I mean computer performance. Basically, does using PCI audio offload the CPU enough to give better gaming performance?