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How to tell if your on-board audio is any good.

NORSMEN
By NORSMEN
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Hey everyone,

I'm going to buy a new headset pretty soon (the Steelseries arctis 5)  and I was wondering how tell if my motherboard's on-board audio is good enough for it.  Does anyone know what makes a motherboard's on-board audio "good"?

 

(I'm running the Asrock pro micro ATX if it helps)

 

thanks

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First of all listening to it with a pair of speakers or such. And if the audio is bad quality, look into a sound card.

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buy headphones

plug them in

listen to music

 

if it sounds good, it's good..

if it sounds terrible... dac yourself

if it's not loud enough... amp yourself, preferably with a dac too

 

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The Arctic 5s should be fine but the only way you can know if your motherboard will power your headphones properly is to try it out yourself.

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You listen to something and then hear if it is good or not.

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for me if it works it's good

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What I do is I turn it on and then see if it is working. Then I go this is working, job done.

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