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Messiah33

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Hey [H], I want to be able to use my PC and Xbox 360 on my speakers at the same time. At first I had the Logitech z2300's for about $150 but I also had the Prelude so that i can plug my xbox into it via optical input to play out my speakers. Now I just found a 2.1 system that has optical in Edifier S330D 2.1 Speaker Set 72W RMS High Gloss Black Piano Finish Digital & Analog Input
$120, now I dont really Have a need for that 200$ soundcard. So can anyone recomend a soundcard for gaming to replace that one or is the onboard of the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L good enough. Also I am running Vista 64-bit with 4gb RAM.
 
If you are using digital output for a stereo signal, there is no reason to not just use onboard, since the soundcard won't be doing much of anything anyway.
 
Fryguy8 said:
If you are using digital output for a stereo signal, there is no reason to not just use onboard, since the soundcard won't be doing much of anything anyway.
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Lower noise threshold. Onboard audio, while much better than it used to be, still suffers from a lot of crossover and EM interference from other motherboard components. A seperate sound card can help.

If you don't care about acceleration like EAX, I reccomend the Chaintech AV-710. Only $25, excellent analog outs and has TOSLINK (Optical) as well.
 
Arainach said:
Lower noise threshold. Onboard audio, while much better than it used to be, still suffers from a lot of crossover and EM interference from other motherboard components. A seperate sound card can help.
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Not for S/PDIF....

Use onboard.
 
Arainach said:
Lower noise threshold. Onboard audio, while much better than it used to be, still suffers from a lot of crossover and EM interference from other motherboard components. A seperate sound card can help.

If you don't care about acceleration like EAX, I reccomend the Chaintech AV-710. Only $25, excellent analog outs and has TOSLINK (Optical) as well.
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Yah this is pretty much false.
 
Messiah33 said:
So I should just use my onboard for my computer games then?
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Depends on how you going to connect them all.
Onboard audio via SPDIF is okay for most of games or if you don't care about EAX. You'll get a great sound clarity, no noise from internal components, etc. There will be almost no difference between onboard sound card and Prelude.
 
I'm pretty sure that my mobo has Optical/Coaxial out, so I'll just use that. Thanks for the help.
 
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