I recently bought the Genius Sw G 5.1 3500 Gx 80w speakers and would like a good sound card for gaming, not so expensive so i can take advantage of my speakers power. Thanks a lot.
Onboard sound is all you need for those speakers. Unless its just a very bottom end motherboard, you will be spending money for nothing. And if my board was one of those cheap motherboards, I would put the $100 towards a better motherboard!
Onboard? This is a set that is sold at Walmart. 80W? Not exactly a power house. I personally vote to use the onboard. I doubt a sound card will make much difference.
Unless you have the most basic motherboard model or you are an audiophile, the on-board sound will perform as well as most sound cards costing less than ~$100. I too will push for using on-board audio
Onboard sound is all you need for those speakers. Unless its just a very bottom end motherboard, you will be spending money for nothing. And if my board was one of those cheap motherboards, I would put the $100 towards a better motherboard!