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Is it worth getting a bottom of the line sound card
I've read that adding a sound card will make your CPU work less. Good, but one usually buys a sound card primarily for better sound. So not being in a position to buy a good sound card until perhaps my next PC (in 2 years time or so) I was wondering if it would be worth getting a bottom of the line sound card. Would sound sound sufficiently better--not great but enough?
I have a decent surround sound 6 speaker system for music and at times for games I may use my earphones--very good ones.
Examples that i saw at Amazon (new) are:
Asus PCI 5.1 Channel Sound Card XONAR_DG $27
Vantec 7.1 Channel PCI Sound Card UGT-S100 $32
and eBay is full of Chinese ones under $20
Thanks