Integrated goodies... or Indipendent ones?

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Well... this is Q asked by my fren!!!

He was on a tight budget, so he bought an intel mobo... which has 5.1 channel sound

now he has creative "LIVE" 4.1 sound card... and since this new motherboard has only 3 PCI slot (of which one has been taken up by.. huge HEAT SINK of his AGP slot)... i told him to use, the onboard sound card !!!

now... do you think, this onboard sound card will be as good as the GOOD OL creative?

help....

Newer mobos nowdays have good onboard audio solution. Also using a seperate soundcard does takes some load off the CPU (audio processing).
See, if he has a 5.1 speaker system then he should use the onboard audio as the 4.1 soundcard won't support his speaker system. Otherwise if he has a 2.1 or 4.1 speaker then better use the soundcard. By the way, which mobo (model no.) does he has?

Intel 865GSA ... with Realtec 5.1 (i guess)

He has Creative Inspire 4.1 Speakers... which is sounding quite okay with the onboard soundcard!!!

But then... i was wondering (since EAX is onyl Creative thing) maybe Some games will not be as good on this "Realtec Audio"

Better use the creative soundcard.

so creative is better?

but the onboard soundcard has 5.1 capabilites... them come to think, i only have a 4.1 speakers !!!

hmmm... maybe i will use the creative one !!!