any benefit in disabling onboard sound?

[imamosher]

Is there any reason why I should disable onboard audio?

 

[alex24]

I'm assuming you have a sound card? Otherwise there would be a reason not to!

Onboard will eat some CPU power, but really nothing significant. Your only real reason might be that the drivers may conflict or some programs may throw a wobbly.

 

[SteveB]

Maybe a fraction of a second faster during POST perhaps?

I use my onboard for my mic input, surprisingly it has less noise than my soundcard.

 

[Memphis]

If you don't need it, it's one less driver etc etc etc.

 

[siuko]

Yeah if you definitely dont need it... its one less driver, one less resource that might cuase conflicts...

On the computers in the school were I work we disable parellel ports, serial ports etc etc - the less stuff running the more stable its likely to be...

As long as you dont need them hehe