I had a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtrememusic until yesterday when it broke. Running with my onboard AzaliaIntel High Definition Audio and it sound almost better than the Xtrememusic did ^^
Honestly, unless you got killer speakers (and I mean home theater ones).. from a quality perspective, it won't matter much.. it'd be hard to hear the difference in terms of music and movies. Gaming though, I have no clue.. I know XFi does improve frame rates.. but I don't know by how many percent..
I mean.. if you got a quad/dual core system.. surely 15% of cpu won't affect the performance THAT much right? what's 15% cpu on 1 core out of 4 or 2?
ya you do only need a soundcard for music editing or even film and for sure for gaming. Sound blaster xfi or even audigy 2 series is still awesome. Creative FTW!
U need sound card only if u play games in vista and minimum is X-FI XtremeGamer which ive got :) (not for vista im using XP but i like to hear every sound in game bad luck if u have on board sound and u think its playing fine in games becouse onboard saound cards cant play every sound menat to be heared :P
I do. I have an audigy 2 but i also have a 7.1 surround realtek with my Gigabyte mobo. The reason why "gamers" and serious music users should use PCI cards are 1: Mobo Devolpers admit that even if their baked mobo sound says HD it is truely not. (Pc gamer Mag ref) And also it affects framerates. Features such as CREATIVE EAX are not avalible in onboard sound
My audio plays choppy / laggy. What do you think the problem is? My sound card is built into the motherboard by the way
smokemafiaclick 8 months ago
@blajsad
Lol you used xtrememusic?
SgtThom 9 months ago
I had a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtrememusic until yesterday when it broke. Running with my onboard AzaliaIntel High Definition Audio and it sound almost better than the Xtrememusic did ^^
blajsad 1 year ago
i need both to run but for some reason i cant run my on board
djduckyduck 2 years ago
Honestly, unless you got killer speakers (and I mean home theater ones).. from a quality perspective, it won't matter much.. it'd be hard to hear the difference in terms of music and movies. Gaming though, I have no clue.. I know XFi does improve frame rates.. but I don't know by how many percent..
I mean.. if you got a quad/dual core system.. surely 15% of cpu won't affect the performance THAT much right? what's 15% cpu on 1 core out of 4 or 2?
syruppie 4 years ago
XFI if your into gaming, processes sounds w/o using the your main cpu (has it's own cpu on the board) resulting in better fps.
Blitzkrieg1981 4 years ago
i dont know if i like onboard though..even for moives etc. It through the CPU which makes me a little wiery..
Kaleb34 4 years ago
ya you do only need a soundcard for music editing or even film and for sure for gaming. Sound blaster xfi or even audigy 2 series is still awesome. Creative FTW!
Kaleb34 4 years ago
U need sound card only if u play games in vista and minimum is X-FI XtremeGamer which ive got :) (not for vista im using XP but i like to hear every sound in game bad luck if u have on board sound and u think its playing fine in games becouse onboard saound cards cant play every sound menat to be heared :P
Raider0001 4 years ago
I do. I have an audigy 2 but i also have a 7.1 surround realtek with my Gigabyte mobo. The reason why "gamers" and serious music users should use PCI cards are 1: Mobo Devolpers admit that even if their baked mobo sound says HD it is truely not. (Pc gamer Mag ref) And also it affects framerates. Features such as CREATIVE EAX are not avalible in onboard sound
Kaleb34 4 years ago