Do gamers really need a sound card?

They're not a bad price either to be honest. I'll have to look into them further.

 

No actually. It really wasn't.

They had absolutely no clue what they were talking about, and neither of them was qualified to make the statements made. They touched upon one or two truths, the majority was horse piss.

 

My sound card is so important to me, I purposely got a lower tier motherboard just so I could have a PCI slot to use my Xonar ST. To this day, I'm still amazed at the quality of sound this thing puts out with my HD595's. It is so eerily lifelike at times, I've found myself questioning whether the sound was coming from my room or outside. I had fears my card would have issues with Windows 8 but the card works perfectly. Not a single sound issue with any game or program.

With that said, some of the newer mobo's I've seen look to have impressive sound hardware. High quality DAC's, capacitors and headphone amps. These mobo's would probably be on par with entry level sound cards. This is just an assumption though.

 

I've used my onboard audio for the past couple of builds and had always been happy with it.

Then I got some decent speakers, hmmm!

 

Well you should get a decent soundcard too.

 

I been using an onboard realtek sound card 10 year and a my 15 year old ACS 48 2.1 speakers . but then i came from sb live value card and heard no difference from SB live value to a onboard realtek.

Im sure those highend Sound card are better but to me pointless as I either use those 15year old ACS 48 or headphones which i use alt more.

Unless I actual get around to buying one of the Klipsh 2.1 speakers I always want i see no point in spend the extra cash on soundcard I wont hear difference with

 

well i like my room to be quiet, reason is, my headphones are not closed.

 

Yes, if you care for gfx then you should for sound too. You aren't deft are you?

 

You would need to have extreme sound in the area for that to be an issue.

 

I did, the decent speakers showed me what I'd been missing by using the onboard audio.

 

serious or joking?

 

think hes serious mate