So today I decided to install my sound card again

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And wow the difference. I removed the sound card way back when I got another gpu for sli but then that card got fried and I never bothered sticking the sound card back in and reinstalling all drivers and crap.

So today while I was having my speakers on I noticed the sound from the right channel was crappy. And I had this problem already with my headphones and never really noticed the speakers, so all this time I thought my headphones had just gone poo.

So I got mad and went ahead and stuck my soundblaster titanium back in and I got blown away. The sound both from left and right came out crystal clear and music sounds 10x better again, plus no internal shitty soundcard using the cpu.

I used to be like meh with soundcards but If the motherboard you get doesn't have a good soundcard then you should spend a little extra on it, totally worth it.

and heres a key for 2 brothers 9DQB9-B3ZZN-VLGYB.

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nibblemonkey

Never thought that a dedicated sound card could make such a difference. I redeemed the key too, thanks

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smutsig

Well it depends really on the sound card on the motherboard, and I guess most have realtek like mine because it's probably the cheapest crap they can probably stick on there, Youre welcome!

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TRUCKER

Realtek really isn't crap, it's enough to get very good audio for many 100 € Headphones

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Shad0WeN

You must have an old budget system then. Onboard Realtek audio these days is reasonably good quality.

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MbccompanyX

Already took :-(

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Pr0n

Should've left the question mark.

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TRUCKER

Got a Xonar Phoebus, waiting for my quality headphones (DT 990 Edition) to arrive tomorrow, I'll see how much better it is.

Such a pity my soundchip has EM Shielding while the card has not.

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smutsig

If you have enough space between the card and anything else you wont get any background noise most likely.

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TRUCKER

It's right above the card for me, using any other PCIe slot results in my card going down to x8, regardless I am one of the few who have this issue with the Phoebus where using am 3.5 mm microphone on the soundcard results in a really annoying buzzing when the craphics card is doing anything, no matter where the card is in the computer or if you try to shield it yourself using insulated aluminum foil.

So I ain't getting any sound issues with output plus I am getting 250 Ohm Headphones those should fiter that shit out partially.

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viaI

I have Xonar Phoebus too, but so far no quality headphones.

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Onomatopesha

Holy crap, that's one hell of a good soundcard.
Personally, i haven't bothered to get a dedicated one, as the gigabyte g1.sniper already has pretty nice onboard sound (and i still need to get a hold of a better pair of headphones, wireless would be amazing).

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Mrjohnnylax

Gooby pls.

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MDuh

so my question is, do you need a dedicated sound card when you have a A/V receiver connected to your gpu?

That's my current setup

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