Rastalovich
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Even coming from a broadcasting environment, I'd still insist there's too much "this is definitely a far better quality than that". It's personal taste a good number of times.
There are alot of onboard sounds that do suffer, particularly when most of us overclock the whole mobo, but I'd definitely say it should be tried before dismissed. A great deal of internal sound card options are as-good, but have the advantage of not suffering side effects of other components (unless you stick an overclocked graphic card right next to them, then you've wasted a bunch of money in many cases)
A means to molest the sound as it pleases you and pump out however many little vibrating boxes as you personally want - is the best setup for everyone.
I have a crazy setup at the moment. 1 computer, running xbmc, but also an old pci creative fatal1ty (I got from Kemp a long time ago), going to a surround environment. It mixes sounds from sky/mac/gamingpc/ and some other sources, so only the one set of 5.1 speakers is required. Creative card in the gaming pc, only really for the 5.1 encoding, otherwize the onboard would have been fine - stereo only tho.
Mixes is important to my setup as I often have a few things playing out whilst I maybe game. It's almost impossible to find a stand alone solution that will take 4/5 sources, surround and stereo, and play them at the same time, whilst redirecting if you want. Wish I could find something.
Most of the cards these days use the creative software, sometimes under a guise of something else, but you'll find that it molests the audio to the way it thinks you want it, out of the box. You fine tune it to how it sounds better to you afterwards, redirect your inputs etc.
All pretty much personal tastes, not a matter of cash.
There are alot of onboard sounds that do suffer, particularly when most of us overclock the whole mobo, but I'd definitely say it should be tried before dismissed. A great deal of internal sound card options are as-good, but have the advantage of not suffering side effects of other components (unless you stick an overclocked graphic card right next to them, then you've wasted a bunch of money in many cases)
A means to molest the sound as it pleases you and pump out however many little vibrating boxes as you personally want - is the best setup for everyone.
I have a crazy setup at the moment. 1 computer, running xbmc, but also an old pci creative fatal1ty (I got from Kemp a long time ago), going to a surround environment. It mixes sounds from sky/mac/gamingpc/ and some other sources, so only the one set of 5.1 speakers is required. Creative card in the gaming pc, only really for the 5.1 encoding, otherwize the onboard would have been fine - stereo only tho.
Mixes is important to my setup as I often have a few things playing out whilst I maybe game. It's almost impossible to find a stand alone solution that will take 4/5 sources, surround and stereo, and play them at the same time, whilst redirecting if you want. Wish I could find something.
Most of the cards these days use the creative software, sometimes under a guise of something else, but you'll find that it molests the audio to the way it thinks you want it, out of the box. You fine tune it to how it sounds better to you afterwards, redirect your inputs etc.
All pretty much personal tastes, not a matter of cash.
