- Nov 19, 2013
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Hi guys, I have a quick question regarding the ALC898 onboard audio chip that came with my ASRock Z77 Extreme4 Motherboard. For a while I used the onboard audio until this summer when I decided to dump some money into a soundcard and a decent pair of headphones. For anyone that cares, I ended up going with an Asus Xonar DGX and after a stressful month of research and testing, the Astro A40's.
Anyways, when I seated the soundcard in the motherboard and downloaded the drivers for it, everything worked fine with no problems, although I couldnt tell a difference between the onboard and soundcard's audio. Bare in mind that after I seated the soundcard, I did not bother to go to my BIOS and disable the onboard audio, and instead when I got to desktop the "Realtek Audio Manager" was gone from the icon tray. And after further searching for where it could have gone, the onboard audio device was not listed in my device manager. My question is, when the soundcard was installed, did the motherboard instantly recognize what I was doing and disable the onboard audio by itself? Or is there something more? I took a quick look at startup to see where anything regarding onboard audio was, but all I found was information about the board, CPU fans, overclocking options, etc etc.
TL;DR: When seating a soundcard into the ASRock Z77 Extreme4, is the onboard audio automatically disabled?
Bonus: Plugging my headphones directly into my soundcard will yield better audio/amplification than plugging into my front panel jacks, correct?
Thanks guys.
Anyways, when I seated the soundcard in the motherboard and downloaded the drivers for it, everything worked fine with no problems, although I couldnt tell a difference between the onboard and soundcard's audio. Bare in mind that after I seated the soundcard, I did not bother to go to my BIOS and disable the onboard audio, and instead when I got to desktop the "Realtek Audio Manager" was gone from the icon tray. And after further searching for where it could have gone, the onboard audio device was not listed in my device manager. My question is, when the soundcard was installed, did the motherboard instantly recognize what I was doing and disable the onboard audio by itself? Or is there something more? I took a quick look at startup to see where anything regarding onboard audio was, but all I found was information about the board, CPU fans, overclocking options, etc etc.
TL;DR: When seating a soundcard into the ASRock Z77 Extreme4, is the onboard audio automatically disabled?
Bonus: Plugging my headphones directly into my soundcard will yield better audio/amplification than plugging into my front panel jacks, correct?
Thanks guys.
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