Oh and as to the CPU hit from onboard audio, I doubt it amounts to much of anything, especially when the benefits of discrete audio are weighed dollar for dollar against more video processing power, more cpu power, and more RAM. If you have plenty of both and/or are an audio purist (with high quality digital speakers to plug the card into) than why not, but from a performance perspective discrete audio probably adds the lowest bang for the while I doubt many people could tell the difference in audio quality, on the typical analog speaker setups, between any decent onboard audio codec versus an Audigy or X-Fi.
|