Realtek ALC1200 worse than Realtek ALC892?

[GamerGry123]

I have a MSI B450 TOMAHWK MAX motherboard and the sound card is ALC892 there the sound is good but I also have a second MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK motherboard and the sound card is ALC1200 and there is no difference between these ALC1200 sound cards it is even a little worse because when I connect the microphone I hear it very softly than I do with the ALC892. The microphone was connected to the 3.5 mini jack input. I tested on good speakers on headphones as if what. The driver on both sound cards is the same from Microsoft and not from Realtek, no reason, I installed the driver from the official website of the motherboard manufacturer, but only the software for the sound card is installed and the driver remains as it was from Microsoft.

[Tigerleon]

2 hours ago, GamerGry123 said:

I have a MSI B450 TOMAHWK MAX motherboard and the sound card is ALC892 there the sound is good but I also have a second MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK motherboard and the sound card is ALC1200 and there is no difference between these ALC1200 sound cards it is even a little worse because when I connect the microphone I hear it very softly than I do with the ALC892. The microphone was connected to the 3.5 mini jack input. I tested on good speakers on headphones as if what. The driver on both sound cards is the same from Microsoft and not from Realtek, no reason, I installed the driver from the official website of the motherboard manufacturer, but only the software for the sound card is installed and the driver remains as it was from Microsoft.

I never trust realtek's cheap DAC's anymore, their amps are pretty horrible as well. But yeah, could be worse. Some implementations are worse than others.

[CTR640]

External sound gears will crush onboard audio like a bug.

[The Flying Sloth]

Onboard is onboard, if you're going to use onboard just use onboard. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of external gear, that's when you might potentially see improvement.

 

People who want strong mic input will be using external sources like a USB mic or XLR setup.

[GamerGry123]

On 3/27/2021 at 4:19 PM, CTR640 said:

External sound gears will crush onboard audio like a bug.

So it does not use a sound card?

[GamerGry123]

On 3/27/2021 at 12:56 PM, Tigerleon said:

I never trust realtek's cheap DAC's anymore, their amps are pretty horrible as well. But yeah, could be worse. Some implementations are worse than others.

And what kind of graphics card do you trust and why you don't trust realtek graphics cards are in every laptop?

[GamerGry123]

On 3/27/2021 at 9:13 PM, The Flying Sloth said:

Onboard is onboard, if you're going to use onboard just use onboard. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of external gear, that's when you might potentially see improvement.

 

People who want strong mic input will be using external sources like a USB mic or XLR setup.

In my case, the microphone is very quietly heard connected to the 3.5 mini jack input and on the expensive MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK motherboard and one of the best sound cards that are on the expensive ALC1200 motherboards, but before that I had a gigabyte motherboard for 775 socket this motherboard the main one is over 10 years old and the sound on it was very good and the speakers in the headphones were very good and even when the microphone was connected to the 3.5 mini jack input, I do not know why much newer ALC1200 does not work, at least with the microphone because it is quiet but the noise is a bit less. I know that if he wants to be heard even better or louder, it is better to use a USB or other socket, but compared to motherboards on the 775 socket, I do not know why the newer, better, as it is written by the motherboard manufacturer himself, cannot do it.

 

I still have a MSI B450 TOMAHAWK motherboard, the sound card is ALC892 and it also works better than ALC1200 so I don't understand why ALC1200 which is better than ALC892 is in practice worse, maybe you know why?