Suppose you have 4.000 dollar/euro/whatever your currency is, to blow on a pc

[soulsamurai]

superchunk said:

soulsamurai said:

Absoluetly not......get a good sound card....get astro REAL surround sound head set or something of equal qaulity....not that bulshit emulated surround.....

It's not a small difference....it's a big difference....you will think you are firing a real gun...

Guess it depends on your intentions with your PC.

I have a family and therefore we do not blast the PC when its in use as that would annoy everyone else in the home.

So its either kept at a decent volume or you're wearing headphones.

In either case, the sound is just fine as is and I think mobo sound is more than acceptable for 98% of users.

Heres a little something that's a bit of an eye opener from The Tech Report describes what it's like when you don't know what your really missing with audio....

That brings me to the question we posed at the beginning of this review, which is whether you really need a sound card at all. The simple answer is no. You can get by with integrated audio and live blissfully unaware of what you're missing or stubbornly claim that no difference exists. I bet you could get by playing games at lower resolutions and without antialiasing and anisotropic filtering, too. You probably don't really need a solid-state drive to load games a few seconds faster, and you'd likely survive with two CPU cores rather than four or six. The question is not whether you need those upgrades, but if they're worth the additional expense. In the case of the $30 Xonar DG, the answer is a definitive yes. If you have halfway decent headphones or speakers, the DG offers a very real step up in sound quality for what amounts to a pittance.