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Originally Posted by cre8tive Delay
As to onboard sound: unless you have a decent soundprocessor on your mainboard, never go with onboard sound. The sound might be ok nowadys but the performance isn't. Your CPU has got to process sound here.
Using a soundcard frees ur CPU and that way increases your fps
Also, a onboard soundcard is most likely not capable of bringing you complex sound effects or precise surrond positioning.
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Agreed, I've always leaned towards performance PC builds with high end motherboards, but even the best of them with on-board sound do not compare to a dedicated quality sound-card that does its own processing and leaves the CPU to do the work on the sim ... it always amazes me how some guys will spend thousands on a PC build but cut corners in this area ... one of my friends did exactly this, I asked him why he never pushed the boat and got a decent sound card and speakers too, he said he'd rather spend that money on neon lights multi colour fans and cathodes to light the inside of the PC, I just said "Oh" ... never told him it looked like a Circus for fear of hurting his feelings LoL. he's now getting an expensive custom paint job on its case done ... each to their own I guess.