sound cards?

[hinch]

my onboard sound is of course nice and crackly, would one of those lovely £5 sound cards do anything to elleviate this or if anything, take away the sound from the hands of processer giving at least a little bit more oomph?

[TSR2]

on board sound cards shouldn't be crackly...Unless you need all the bells and wishtles they are usually fine. If your getting crackles its likely to be your cables/amplifer/speakers.

[ianhind]

Your motherboard has a Realtek ALC655 chipset which is supposedly better than the early sound chips.

[hinch]

my headphones were indeed a few quid :P

i have some sony DJ headphones i used to use, but they're all the way upstairs and i can't be arsed changing them all the time to use skype.

[jonesey2k]

I use a HDA Xplosion connected up to an Onkyo SR606 & some Tannoy's. Sounds great and the card can encode into DTS.
Not sure if you can still get it though...

[Garry Russell]

Sound card is the heart of speakers from where they receive sounds.. There are usually three ports in sound card,
1.Microphone (usually red colored)
2.Speaker output ( usually green)
3. Line in ( whatever color it is... :P )

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