While I'm sure many of you will tell me that the Audigy 2 is superior to onboard sound, I still have a few questions.
To introduce my questions, I'll tell you that I am currently using the onboard sound on my Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP with a barely adequate 4.1 speaker system (Logitech Soundman SR-30 4.1). The sound chip is an AC97 solution, specifically the ALC 658, I believe. I have an Audigy 2, but the reason I'm not using it is that I wanted to play games rather than sit around figuring out how to get the rear speakers to work with the Creative card.
What I want to know is if the load on the CPU from onboard sound is significant enough that using the add-in card will actually produce any sort of noticeable difference in frame rates or benchmark scores. Okay, so maybe I only have one question, and I didn't even word it in question form, but hopefully those of you who fret over 2 FPS will help me out anyway
To introduce my questions, I'll tell you that I am currently using the onboard sound on my Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP with a barely adequate 4.1 speaker system (Logitech Soundman SR-30 4.1). The sound chip is an AC97 solution, specifically the ALC 658, I believe. I have an Audigy 2, but the reason I'm not using it is that I wanted to play games rather than sit around figuring out how to get the rear speakers to work with the Creative card.
What I want to know is if the load on the CPU from onboard sound is significant enough that using the add-in card will actually produce any sort of noticeable difference in frame rates or benchmark scores. Okay, so maybe I only have one question, and I didn't even word it in question form, but hopefully those of you who fret over 2 FPS will help me out anyway