soundblaster live 5.1 vs onboard sound

Cyber-Mav · 27 Aug 2007 at 16:16

found a soundblaster live 5.1 card when i was rummaging around in the boxes i have.

was wondering if this sound card is better than the onboard sound i have on my asrock board, it uses realtek i believe. here is the board in question: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939Dual-SATA2&s=n

any advantage to using the sounblaster live 5.1 over onboard audio? or should i just leave things as they are?

also got to take into account i got vista 64bit do don;t even know if the soundblaster live 5.1 is supported under vista 64bit.

Cyber-Mav · 27 Aug 2007 at 18:00

Kezmo said:
why dont u stick it in and find out ? seriously its like a 30 second job

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Cyber-Mav · 27 Aug 2007 at 18:51

decided to just stick with onboard audio. the live 5.1 is probably 10 years old and newer onboard solutions are probably better. also creatives drivers are crap so not really worth shafting a pc that works fine.

Cyber-Mav · 27 Aug 2007 at 19:56

thing is i just checked creativs website and they don;t have drivers for it for vista 64bit.