Be forewarned- creative has been known to have driver-issues from time to time, and if your motherboard is already on the cheap-end you may run into irq conflicts or other resource sharing issues on the pcie bus.įor the price of such a card you can easily upgrade to a much better motherboard- so it's still really not a sound investment, pardon the pun. Though that has more to do with just how cheaply/poorly your motherboard may have been made. That all said, you may well hear a difference with something like a creative sound-blaster ZxR IF you're already using something like 600ohm studio headphones. The only time I would suggest getting a sound card is if your motherboard only has stereo out and you want multi-channel surround (a feature already already supported by mid and high end motherboards)
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PC Audio is still processed at 24 bit even if you have a 32-bit card, there is literally no benefit to a 32-bit sound card over a 24-bit card, and even if your source files are at 32-bit (and real-32-bit not padded 24-bit which I've seen and is dumb as hell) it's still likely to get dithered or truncated in software to 24-bit unless you're using some very uncommon application with 32-bit float native daw, even then you're extremely unlikely to hear much of a difference if any- If you have an AC97 or better integrated sound card you're already all set and you'll likely hear more of an improvement with a better pair of headphones than you could by purchasing an aftermarket sound card. To be honest, if you've got a decent chipset (which even most cheap desktop motherboards now-a-days have given how much both realtek and simens chipsets saturate the market) you really have no need for a sound-card.
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