Onboard sound and CPU performance

[UltimateMan]

Alright, I just saw some numbers from the [H]ardcore website of gamespot.com

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-x-1240-x-x-x&body_pagenum=8

that basically shows serious FPS decreases in HL2 with a computer using onboard sound as compared to a computer with a nice soundcard. Now this makes sense to me, and i am currently using onboard sound, but I was curious what you guys think of this and if you have any other site references documenting or testing this.

THANKS!!

 

[bountyhunter]

it wouldn't be near that drastic at lower levels, besides, there isn't much of a difference between 75 and 65 fps, so whatever. at least the onboards sound is free

 

[BigBadBiologist]

A friend of mine could hardly run Doom 3 on his system with the on-board sound (P4 system) but once he upgraded to a AudigyZX, he could run it no problem. I had a problem with a Asus P4XP-X mobo that would randomly lock up playing Doom 3, but a dedicated sound card worked great. As far as on board sound has come, it still isn't there.

I think most mobo reviews [H] does run tests +/- audio to see how bad the on-board audio kills you. Howerver, it's not quite what you want because they don't actually replace the sound card, they just disable/enable it.