Steelseries Siberia V2 with 3.5mm jack into motherboard

Ripper_ZA

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Hi,

Will it be worth it to buy this headset and just plug it into my MSI G43 mobo's onboard sound? I don't have money for a soundcard, will the motherboard's sound be fine?
 
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it'll work but you'll not have the best quality, it'll lack bass and can't be at high volume as the onboard sound isn't powerfull enough to deliver high input and that's causing distorsion, i use the Siberia and the G45 version (so i think it's surely the same onboard audio) but i can definately say that i won't use that with a onboard solution...

You can buy a cheap Xonar DG for 24$ on NCIX and that'll work flawlessly as i was running an old X-FI Xtreme Audio with about the same specs (but no more PCI slots on the G45, only PCI-e so i changed) and the sound quality, volume and bass was really good with a cheap card comparing that to onboard, Onboard is real crap, i will never use onboard again as any sound card is better even cheap...

spawnkiller

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it'll work but you'll not have the best quality, it'll lack bass and can't be at high volume as the onboard sound isn't powerfull enough to deliver high input and that's causing distorsion, i use the Siberia and the G45 version (so i think it's surely the same onboard audio) but i can definately say that i won't use that with a onboard solution...

You can buy a cheap Xonar DG for 24$ on NCIX and that'll work flawlessly as i was running an old X-FI Xtreme Audio with about the same specs (but no more PCI slots on the G45, only PCI-e so i changed) and the sound quality, volume and bass was really good with a cheap card comparing that to onboard, Onboard is real crap, i will never use onboard again as any sound card is better even cheap ones...
 
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dasfx

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Not really, cheap ones are worst than integrated sometimes..