Question about onboard sound -p4pb400-fl

LegionX

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Jul 10, 2000
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hi :)
i have a Via P4PB400 - FL and i am using the onboard sound. the sound is good for my purposes but i dont know if i would get better performance by buying a audigy or hercules game theater. i heard that some onboard sound have higher cpu usage than others and i dont want my sound to use up too much of my cpu. how does my sound rate in that regard to other systems and soundcards? like i said i am not as much into sound quality as i am into system performance.

http://www.viavpsd.com/product/P4PB400_spec.jsp?motherboardId=41
this is the url to my motherboard specs.

thanks in advance for any help and info you can give ;)
 
Jul 1, 2000
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Onboard sound codecs do use CPU resources, but today's CPU's are so damn fast it really does not matter.

If you are happy with your audio quality, then I'd leave it be :)