on board sound or pci?

[reiss]

hi
just built a new system which has on board sound (realtek ac97) on my abit ic7g

just wondering if its going to make much difference dissabling on board sound and putting my old sound blaster 5.1 in.

they both have same outputs and inputs, i do a little music production now and then (nothing serious).

thanks

[njolakoski]

If u have the money get one, otherwise i wouldnt bother ive delt with onboard sound, and pci card sound in gamin, i heard no difference.

[ArcticFox]

Uh, SB PCI by far...

Edit - my reasons.... It should sound better and have lower CPU usage.

[silvest]

On board uses up more resources... use PCI would be betta

[Martoch]

100% PCI...I went from onboard to my SB, big difference IMHO. Plus, I needed a 5.1 card to get the best out of my Klipsch audio system.

[reiss]

ok. thanks guys.
time to disable that on board sound and wack my SB in.

now to find out how to disable the fecker.

[Bizkitkid2001]

If it was onboard Soundstorm, I would say go with onboard. But yours isn't, so PCI it is.