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Originally posted by Chankama
Still don't know why one is said to be better than the other *scratch head*.. Technological reasons wise. For me surround sound is a must  .. Guess u have to be an audiophile to appreciate the more finer differences. |
You wont likely see any real numbers as evidence, just opinion and conjecture.
Probably would also help to check the nature of whats being done with the sound card too, games, or stereo audio?.Then what else are we comparing it to?Home stereo audio type stuff, or just the different lines of cards and desktop type speakers only?Then for each what kind of baseline?From the specs ive seen on the old original ISA soundblasters for example, what they may lack due to ISA bus constraints, they still are way ahead quality wise of what the average CD audio or mp3 is these days........so all the sound card quality in the world can only do so much, the source still has to be good to sound good.It has to be able to exit the system without any extra noise introduced too, some mobo's are better than others, power supplies too.These things can make a good card bad.
For gaming, I can see an advantage of using a card that unburdens the CPU as much as possible, and having really good well written drivers would be a definite plus.Question is, how well do the top end cards do at this, and is it worth the extra $$?