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[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Nice rigs you got there! Katana, how about that sound card..I have been watching on one like that, but not sure if I get improvement over onboard in gaming. Any impressions you got?

Some dont worry about using on board sound these days, and on modern motherboards its pretty good I must admit, but because of the nature of onboard it will use some CPU cycles, on a fast modern processor you will only lose 1 or 2 FPS at most if that though ... but there are other reasons to use a good quality dedicated sound card, the Asus Xonar STX for example has its own amplifier so that using headphones it has enough juice to supply the best of headphones or headsets, it also does its own sound processing and leaves the CPU cores for other work, the sound quality is unbelievably good, you need to hear it on good headphones or speakers to fully appreciate it, this is actually my second Asus Xonar card, have PCI-e D2X in my second PC, but this STX sounds much better, I wont be going back to Creative Labs cards any more