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built in sound card or PCI sound card?

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High end motherboards these days are packing audio chips that quality wise, are great.

 

So unless there's something really don't like about the audio quality of your on-board solution or there's some feature another solution will provide, there's no reason to get a sound card.

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I have a pair of Beyerdynamic DT990 PRO headphones and I'm just wondering whether a PCI sound card will sound better than the one built in on my MSI Z270 Gaming M7 mobo.

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It will sound the same unless you're paying a lot then it will sound slightly better

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No thats not true depending on the interfearence on the motherboard like some motherboard have dedicated areas for the audio for less interfearence but if your going pci you wont have any

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5 minutes ago, Jamil367 said:

No thats not true depending on the interfearence on the motherboard like some motherboard have dedicated areas for the audio for less interfearence but if your going pci you wont have any

No. You could have a motherboard with great audio and no interference (which is usually only a problem on older computers) and a PCI card with horrible interference. 

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High end motherboards these days are packing audio chips that quality wise, are great.

 

So unless there's something really don't like about the audio quality of your on-board solution or there's some feature another solution will provide, there's no reason to get a sound card.

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3 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

High end motherboards these days are packing audio chips that quality wise, are great.

 

So unless there's something really don't like about the audio quality of your on-board solution or there's some feature another solution will provide, there's no reason to get a sound card.

so basically unless the audio quality is noticeably bad integrated ones are fine

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2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Pretty much.

 

At the end of the day it's 99% subjective.

dope cheers mate

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