Does anyone buy Sound Cards anymore?

I most certainly will put this website to my favorite features, it can be good.

I’ve been looking for 1 decent sound card review site all bloody day. I need to connect my PC to my amp via optical OR coax for 5.1 over my present stereo setup. Not to mention getting rid of that really annoying humming sound. This my friends is why we still buy sound cards. Reviews have become a mere description usually ripped off the mans. page. I was have been going to Tomshardware since its beginning for advice. NO MORE Tom. You will have to struggle along without me from now on.

Using a PCI Soundcard especially those having branded names like SounBlaster having a specs of 24bit would really make a difference. Your like comparing a cheap headset bought in the sidewalk to a BOSS headset. Yes, I agree. You have to consider the price and the practicality of the hardware but what I dont agree is the fact that some people were saying that branded PCI soundcard are a thing of the past and are just the same with the built-in sound system in most motherboard. Guys, get real, Ok!?

I always bought separate peripherals, I am a little picky with my PC parts so I guess for emergency needs I use all on-board systems, and use the add-on cards for most days. I am also quite ecstatic with these new plug and play USB sound driver/thumb(I dont know the proper name for it) Since sometimes when I work at night I use headphones on my PC and adding a usb SRS 3d wow preprocessor makes the sound better than the software equivalent, and it has noise cancellation too. And I have these other USB sound thing which puts out a 7.1 system THX certified, now that’s innovation…!

for most users the built-in ones are enough, so why buy a separate one? it’s also worth mentioning that few sound cards in the market are really much better than the built-in sound in today’s motherboards. syempre gagastos ka rin lang, wag naman pipitsugin na sound card.

I still do, especially if your built-in one suddenly dies..

X-Fi are really good.. but they won’t sound good unless you have a good set of speakers.

I guess pci soundcards will still remain available in the market, especially those hardcore gamers, musician, and hobbyist whom preferred using PCI or PCIe type of soundcards. Like for instance, you can find in some forums that most musically inclined individuals are talking about setting up a dual sound card mainly use it for replacing the traditional analog audio mixer and take note I haven’t seen any built-in sound that provide a midi connector which are often used by musician for connecting their midi capable keyboards or synthesizers that don’t have a usb or firewire connectors. In my own case I bought a cheap pci soundcard and installed it because my Asus A7V266m motherboard built-in sound can’t drive my pioneer headphone simply because it doesn’t have enough pre-amp power.

Yeah I am still using a separate sound card. I guess for ordinary use a built in sound card is good enough but for multimedia production a separate card can really make a difference.

I last bought a sound card back in 2000. Afterwards, there wasn’t really a need for it.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

I think people focus more on the peripherals rather than the internal hardware for sound devices. Eg subwoofers and surround speakers. Only the professional users would seem to have a need for the internal hardware soundcards.