Ufcrusher's Dumb Question of the Day - On Board Audio

[ufcrusher]

I have been looking at a bunch of the higher end mobos and it appears that almost all of them now come with onboard sound. Am I correct in the assumption that I can just disable the onboard sound and go with an actual sound card?

I dont understand why all the boards seem to have sound built into them now and I find this especially frustrating since I have a Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum from the system i am scrapping and would prefer to just plop that in.

[Dave_7]

You are correct. They allow you to disable the on-board audio in the bios.




Dave.

[mcs328]

I like the onboard sound. I don't have a soundcard of any sort that supported by XP. The maker of my sound card has gone under a few years back so I doubt there are compatible XP drivers for it.

[Nija]

My onboard sound (Soundstorm) sounds better than my Creative 5.1 plat. when listening to music and gaming. Hell my creative has been relugated to my nix box, because i don't even want to load the drivers into my XP system.

[gear02]

Some mobos use SB Live 5.1 as their onboard sound, so these days onboard sound doesn't necessarily mean cheap crap.