Hello all, I was curious if there would be a noticable performance increase in any way from using a discrete card over on-board audio. I'm not terribly concerned about the quality of audio, my ears aren't very sensitive. I'm mostly concerned about:
a.) compatability, my aging X-fi has been much more problematic than I would like, and I'm thinking I'll at least switch brands if I decide to go discrete.
b.) My understanding when I bought my last rig was that adding a discrete card will take some load off of the CPU, since it no longer has to control audio in addition to the rest. Is this a noticeable increase, is it worth spending extra money?
c.) Good brands? Don't like my experience w/ my last Creative card so thinking asus, but IDK much about the sound card segment and who's quality and whatnot.
Any feedback folks?
a.) compatability, my aging X-fi has been much more problematic than I would like, and I'm thinking I'll at least switch brands if I decide to go discrete.
b.) My understanding when I bought my last rig was that adding a discrete card will take some load off of the CPU, since it no longer has to control audio in addition to the rest. Is this a noticeable increase, is it worth spending extra money?
c.) Good brands? Don't like my experience w/ my last Creative card so thinking asus, but IDK much about the sound card segment and who's quality and whatnot.
Any feedback folks?
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