Dizzy86 Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 I have a new Gigabyte AMD motherboard that has nice sound, but when i take my headset over to my friends house (we are both gamers) he is using an Asus Xonar DX model and it sounds a lot better than my onboard. Way more punch and deeper bass, and also more crisp high notes. When there is an explosion it really pounds my Razer headset it's really awesome the way it sounds. My question is, is is worth it for me to spend $40.00 for an upgrade like that? 1 Quote
Rich-M Posted October 26, 2014 Posted October 26, 2014 I would. I always used to add sound cards but then onboard got better. Lately I still can't find sound on onboard sound makes me happy but I always have a decent speaker system in use that can utilize a good sound card. 1 Quote
IceMan37 Posted November 9, 2014 Posted November 9, 2014 I would agree with Rich onboard sound is better than it use to be. A good sound card is still miles ahead. Xonar's are great dizzy and you might also check out some of Creative Labs offerings. Quote
Rich-M Posted November 10, 2014 Posted November 10, 2014 Thanks for Xonar I had never heard of those as I have been living with onboard soundcards for years and just decided to go back to using pci-x soundcards again. Asus has really grown. Quote
IceMan37 Posted November 12, 2014 Posted November 12, 2014 As a supposedly well versed techie as you told me you always used sound cards, well I'm surprised =) Quote
Rich-M Posted November 12, 2014 Posted November 12, 2014 I used to back in the early days of XP as I have a virtual graveyard of SoundBlaster audio cards that most likley wont work in Windows or 8. Quote
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