Sound and integrated sound

[tkistre]

What do you think, any noticable performance gain?

 

[TBSN]

One critical thing that one should not forget: A *good* sound card, regardless of how useless the hardware acceleration has become, has a higher-quality Digital-to-Analogue converter, which really matters if you care about your sound.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: tkistre
What do you think, any noticable performance gain?

It all depends on what the bottleneck is. Assuming it's the CPU, then you'll notice a performance gain, which is turn is critical for games that are heavily CPU limited to the point where you can't get more than 30fps or so.