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Onboard vs PCI card Sound

  • 01-06-2009 12:28pm
    #1
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭


    Just a quickie.

    Bought a new computer and the board is:

    Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P Intel P45

    Is it worth taking my Audigy 2 card and installing it in the new machine or is the onboard sound better seeing as this board is substantially newer than the card at this stage.

    Just figured with a quad core and plenty of RAM it's possible that the old dedicated sound card may now not be as necessary as it once was. The machine is for gaming btw.

    Cheers for replies.


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  • #2
    C.D.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭C.D.


    I have the same mobo and an X-Fi gamer. Games that do not support EAX sound the exact same, but EAX games, music and movies all sound phenomenally better- the difference is so astounding I'm looking to by a new high end sound card this summer in the hope of further improving my audio experience.


  • #3
    uberpixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭uberpixie


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Just a quickie.

    Bought a new computer and the board is:

    Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P Intel P45

    Is it worth taking my Audigy 2 card and installing it in the new machine or is the onboard sound better seeing as this board is substantially newer than the card at this stage.

    Just figured with a quad core and plenty of RAM it's possible that the old dedicated sound card may now not be as necessary as it once was. The machine is for gaming btw.

    Cheers for replies.

    Always found dedicated soundcards better for volume and sound quality even for simple mp3 playback.

    Use my old audigy 1 over my onboard sound and there is a difference in sound quailty.

    Don't get wrong: onboard is pretty good these days and a lot better than it was in the past, but I do notice a bit of difference.

    Pop in the audigy 2 and see if you can see any difference: if you can stick with the audigy.


  • #4
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    lol. Well I tried onboard and got distortion playing Farcry 2 that came with the GFX card. So **** it I thought and popped in the Audigy and that solved that.

    THEN I hear a weird buzzing when playing games from what I thought was one of the speakers but on closer inspection it was in the case! My sound card actually buzzes when games are playing! I've googled it and apparently if sound cards are too close to GFX cards it can happen It's remarkably loud when the cover is off, kinda sounds like electricity shorting (but it isn't) and changes pitch depending on the graphical intensity. You can make your own shield or something but I'm not very Blue Petery so I'll have to live with it as there is no way of moving the cards further apart.

    Crazy bidness.


  • #5
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Is it worth taking my Audigy 2 card and installing it in the new machine or is the onboard sound better seeing as this board is substantially newer than the card at this stage.
    For sure. I was in the same boat as yourself. The ten year old Audigy 1 I installed sounded way better than the onboard sound on my new PC, especially for gaming with EAX enabled.


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