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Originally Posted by LukeFF
TBH, unless one is a professional audio developer, today's high-end sound cards don't really offer all that much more than onboard sound. I pulled out my Creative Audigy 2 about a year ago in favor of my onboard Realtek sound hardware and have never noticed any difference in audio quality.
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Honestly, CL Audigy 2 isn't much of a card anyway.
I do agree, nowadays MBO sound cards are much better than few years back and if you're going to invest into a sound card you need to spend more money than before. That is of course, if you have the equipment to hear the difference, and I am not talking about any PC speakers - they are all toys.
Then there are Win Vista and Win 7 - no hardware support or acceleration other than OpenAL. Which renders EAX 5.0 and similar cards useless (for gaming). This is a bigger problem than the quality of the sound card itself.