Buy a sound card or not?
I just want to know this for future reference. On a pretty good gaming rig should I get a sound card for it? During gaming I would be wearing a headset, but would an additional sound card help or would the integrated audio ports work fine? I wouldn't want to spend more money than I had to.
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Personally for a game like CF I see no reason to go over the top for anything. FPS is capped, ping is based on connection and location and even a standard sound chard with computers and headphones are enough to be good at ghost mode and whatnot.
So unless your going to be using it for something else within good reason, I don't really suggest it, -
[MOD]Talonblaze wrote: »Personally for a game like CF I see no reason to go over the top for anything. FPS is capped, ping is based on connection and location and even a standard sound chard with computers and headphones are enough to be good at ghost mode and whatnot.
So unless your going to be using it for something else within good reason, I don't really suggest it,
What is the FPS cap? -
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For a really good set of headphones, you have to get a mixer or a soundcard for their full potential, typically a mixer due to the power requirements of most headphones, like the AKG 702s. The X-Fi system can really help with headphones, but not in Crossfire honestly.
It also depends on your OS these days for a soundcard due to it being mainly processed via software and your CPU then anything else thanks to Microsoft doing away with Direct Sound in Vista and Windows 7, unless you have Alchemy like what Creative Labs came up with.
For Crossfire (and a lot of modern games these days unless you have the audio setup for it), a simple headphone setup with onboard sound will do ya just fine.
5.1 systems and above I'd recommend a soundcard. Most high-end headphones which don't have inline soundcards typically require a mixer anyways. So yea, overall it is pretty pointless.
Now for CoD or some other game, then yea, it'd be quite nice.
Respectfully,
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If your soundcard sounds "good" there's no static or noise then its OK, as you can see there's nothing to setup in crossfire (A3D, EAX, Positional Audio, etc..) so any soundcard would work fine, but, in my case i was having some problem with static just before starting crossfire and sometimes in-game (Realtek ALC662), not only on CF, also CoD, so I bought an old audigy 2 ZS and everything works fine, i really don't notice some huge improvement on sound.. -
I just want to know this for future reference. On a pretty good gaming rig should I get a sound card for it? During gaming I would be wearing a headset, but would an additional sound card help or would the integrated audio ports work fine? I wouldn't want to spend more money than I had to.
Find a motherboard with a good integrated sound card, you should worry more about your headset's quality than your sound card. When getting a headset you should look for good impedance, and sensitivity.
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