Need advice for my new build in August

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I've never bothered with anything other than onboard sound and currently using some ancient Creative 2.1 speakers that I've considered absolutely superb albeit bulky.

Hopefully come August I will finally have enough money to build a brand new system and I'm wondering if it's worth investing in a soundcard and if so which one?


Also what speakers would you recommend?

 

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I mostly game, use it for watching movies and listening to music etc

 

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Mostly speakers these days, I do have a set of usb headphones but they hardly see use anymore...

My overall build budget is locked at 5K top whack if things come through for me in July as planned but that's for everything, monitor, peripherals etc etc and am hoping to come in well under that and haven't really decided which chipset I'm going with etc.