sound card?

[Pudgie]

ripley is just mad challenge stole his favorite sheep then trade it for a real woman.  you know love stuff .

semp

Hmmmm........................ ........

Better go pop me a double bag of Orville Redenbacher's Ultimate Butter popcorn as this could get interesting.................. ..........

 

[Hungry]

Chalenge to Ripley or Ripley to Chalenge ?

I've grown accustomed to his text.
He almost makes the day begin.
I've grown accustomed to the tune that
he types night and noon.
His smiley faces, his frowns
his ups, his downs
Are second nature to me now;
Like breathing out and breathing in.
 I was serenely independent and content to post before we met;
 Surely I could always be that way again-
 And yet
 I've grown accustomed to his text;
 Accustomed to his sheep
 Accustomed to his posts

a stab at a Favorite Dean Martin tune

[Chalenge]

You all need help. Just saying.

[guncrasher]

we dont need help, we just well... yeah we do need help, but those sheep do really look good dont they?


semp

[zack1234]

My rockave 5.1 is awesome with my recon 3d sound card

My onboard sound is alright when i tried it on military class mother board

To be honest your colonial Country and western music sounds odd on both set ups

[Getback]

My rockave 5.1 is awesome with my recon 3d sound card

My onboard sound is alright when i tried it on military class mother board

To be honest your colonial Country and western music sounds odd on both set ups

It came from Ireland.

[olds442]

See Rule #4

[olds442]

See Rule #4

[Getback]

I bought a sound card a probably better than a month ago and finally have it installed. I had other issues like bad stick of Ram and operator errors. So it took a while.

Bought the Soundblaster Z, the one that was 5.1 ready. I tell you I never knew so much sound was coming out the computer.

Following the operator error theme. When I first set it up I had no sound, I thought the volume needs raised. So I turned it up and turned it up some more. Then realized my speakers weren't on. Pressed on button and Blame. I almost blown out of the office. Quickly turned that down.

I don't think you are getting the full sound out of on-board audio.

[Gman]

Some of the on board audio with the x99 platform boards is very good, on par with the Creative SB Z IMO.  MSI's x99 Gamer 7 board is the one I have, and the audio boost 2 on board sound is actually by Creative IIRC, and has boosted output for headphones that previously needed an amp of some kind to work properly.  So, if you get a newer MB, IMO you don't need a sound card, as the on board audio is much, much better than previous on board sound.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I bought a sound card a probably better than a month ago and finally have it installed. I had other issues like bad stick of Ram and operator errors. So it took a while.

Bought the Soundblaster Z, the one that was 5.1 ready. I tell you I never knew so much sound was coming out the computer.

Following the operator error theme. When I first set it up I had no sound, I thought the volume needs raised. So I turned it up and turned it up some more. Then realized my speakers weren't on. Pressed on button and Blame. I almost blown out of the office. Quickly turned that down.

I don't think you are getting the full sound out of on-board audio.

Don't confuse output level to 'full sound'. If your source has a higher output level it just means that you get more sound at a lower volume setting.

[zack1234]

After last statement i am now confused

[MrRiplEy[H]]

After last statement i am now confused

Research has shown that if a person compares two audio devices of identical quality, but so that the other compared device has a higher output level (it's louder), the person will almost without fail think that the louder device sounds much better.

This psychoacoustical reason is also why radio channels use maximum compression so that their channel would sound the loudest of all.

[Chalenge]

So, if you get a newer MB, IMO you don't need a sound card, as the on board audio is much, much better than previous on board sound.

Except that despite the quality of the electronics it still suffers from the same limitations of every other onboard sound system.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Except that despite the quality of the electronics it still suffers from the same limitations of every other onboard sound system.

This link compares benchmarks taken with the creative separate card to onboard audio solution. The differences between performance are almost within the margin of error.

http://hothardware.com/reviews/Creative-Sound-Blaster-ZxR-Versus-Onboard-Audio?page=4