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Do most motherboards have good audio?

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I am looking to purchase this motherboard before Zen 2 launch next week in an attempt to save money. Right now I have a budget micro ATX board for my 4790k and the onboard audio is not very great. The output is mostly fine but the input has static due to interference. 

 

Does this B450 Tomahawk have good onboard audio? I'm guessing it's not really a problem on any recent motherboards but this one doesn't have a heatsink on its chip. Is this a strong indicator of good onboard audio or is it not much different?

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I get static w/ on board sound on my Zenith Extreme thanks to my GPU and other stuff in there, so sometimes being a good board does not solve the issue.

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Having static for the audio is a vaild reason for RMA, it's not meant to happen even for cheap boards today, at worst it's just not as clear as a dedicated sound card or the output from a graphics card.

 

 

4 minutes ago, mattdmg said:

Does this B450 Tomahawk have good onboard audio?

The standard "good enough for 99.9% people buying a mid range board" type of good. I mean I know some people specifically going for Asus ROG stuff for their SupremeFX codec only, but I think if you care about audio that much, you should just buy a dedicated sound card and focus on something else that makes a board good..

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Mine has ALC1220 and it performs pretty well for being on-board.

Before you reply to my post, REFRESH. 99.99% chance I edited my post. 

 

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its good enough for sure.. maybe some of the more expensive dedicated sound cards will be better.. but if you want really good sound then use HDMI out to a receiver and some proper speakers.. but of course thats a lot more expensive.  

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5 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Having static for the audio is a vaild reason for RMA, it's not meant to happen even for cheap boards today, at worst it's just not as clear as a dedicated sound card or the output from a graphics card.

 

 

The standard "good enough for 99.9% people buying a mid range board" type of good. I mean I know some people specifically going for Asus ROG stuff for their SupremeFX codec only, but I think if you care about audio that much, you should just buy a dedicated sound card and focus on something else that makes a board good..

Ahaha try telling that to asus

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5 hours ago, mattdmg said:

I am looking to purchase this motherboard before Zen 2 launch next week in an attempt to save money. Right now I have a budget micro ATX board for my 4790k and the onboard audio is not very great. The output is mostly fine but the input has static due to interference. 

 

Does this B450 Tomahawk have good onboard audio? I'm guessing it's not really a problem on any recent motherboards but this one doesn't have a heatsink on its chip. Is this a strong indicator of good onboard audio or is it not much different?

 

5 hours ago, mattdmg said:

I am looking to purchase this motherboard before Zen 2 launch next week in an attempt to save money. Right now I have a budget micro ATX board for my 4790k and the onboard audio is not very great. The output is mostly fine but the input has static due to interference. 

 

Does this B450 Tomahawk have good onboard audio? I'm guessing it's not really a problem on any recent motherboards but this one doesn't have a heatsink on its chip. Is this a strong indicator of good onboard audio or is it not much different?

Get an Audigy studio from sound blaster off eBay for like 40 bucks volume is wayyyy louder threw my headphones and it removes gpu coil whine hiss

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10 hours ago, mattdmg said:

I am looking to purchase this motherboard before Zen 2 launch next week in an attempt to save money. Right now I have a budget micro ATX board for my 4790k and the onboard audio is not very great. The output is mostly fine but the input has static due to interference.  

 

Does this B450 Tomahawk have good onboard audio? I'm guessing it's not really a problem on any recent motherboards but this one doesn't have a heatsink on its chip. Is this a strong indicator of good onboard audio or is it not much different?

It will probably be fine, but for a little more you could get a decent x470 motherboard that would overclock decently, get a few more features with better audio.

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1 hour ago, StarsMars said:

It will probably be fine, but for a little more you could get a decent x470 motherboard that would overclock decently, get a few more features with better audio.

Overclock decently? Haha this is ryzen here, where you get all core turbo clocks if your lucky. 

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I think this is one of those questions where "if you have to ask, motherboard audio is good enough"

Before you reply to my post, REFRESH. 99.99% chance I edited my post. 

 

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