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zdrfeelgoodz

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I'm looking into buying a sound card for my custom PC. But, my set up makes me wonder If I'll actually get any use out of it. I have my PC hooked up to a monitor (with built-in speakers, albeit terrible ones) through DVI and it's also hooked up to my larger TV (duplicate screens) with my receiver and surround sound via HDMI. My surround sound is a pretty hefty set-up, and I'll take all the sound quality I can get.
My question is:
Would getting a sound card very much improve the sound coming from my receiver even though it will be running through the same HDMI ports?
 
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photonboy
I doubt it.
The biggest advantage of sound cards is to get proper ANALOG audio so that you scale the signal without distortion and don't get any NOISE into the signal from the computer.

You're only using the digital processing which is likely almost identical on any chip/card provided you don't want to modify the signal (I don't except EAX in older games).
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I doubt it.
The biggest advantage of sound cards is to get proper ANALOG audio so that you scale the signal without distortion and don't get any NOISE into the signal from the computer.

You're only using the digital processing which is likely almost identical on any chip/card provided you don't want to modify the signal (I don't except EAX in older games).
 
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