Sound card question
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yea, if your on a budget the SoundBlaster Live! MP3 PCI card is hella cheap now. I use that with my Logetich speakers and it slaps.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102176
But if you want something better, the Sound Blaster Audigy series are good too... if you have any questions just PM me.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102176
But if you want something better, the Sound Blaster Audigy series are good too... if you have any questions just PM me.
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it's better to have video card on, cause well, so i guess you won't have to remove built in video cards by yourself, i dunno if u can or not but if you don't have built in video card and you will be able to choose any type video type card you want (for instance, 256 mb, 32 mb, etc) to put in.......then next few years it gets old and u want new one then you put another new one in and remove old one off........i think that if you have built in video card and then you will be stuck with that video card forever......you will then have to buy another new motherboard that doesn't have built in cards.......right? So...
it's better to have video card on, cause well, so i guess you won't have to remove built in video cards by yourself, i dunno if u can or not but if you don't have built in video card and you will be able to choose any type video type card you want (for instance, 256 mb, 32 mb, etc) to put in.......then next few years it gets old and u want new one then you put another new one in and remove old one off........i think that if you have built in video card and then you will be stuck with that video card forever......you will then have to buy another new motherboard that doesn't have built in cards.......right? So...
Onboard video is fine if you only use your computer to do word proccessing, email surf the web, etc. If you want to play games, edit video, edit/create graphics, etc it just won't cut it. Almost all onboard video doesn't have dedicated memory they use 'shared memory'. Basically they reserve a chunk of your main system RAM to be used solely for video. Also many of the onboard video chips don't have a dedicated GPU and instead offload the video processing to your main CPU. Its the same for soundcards except for the RAM thing. You can upgrade to a dedicated sound/video card later with onboard audio/video. I don't know of any current motherboard manufacturers that don't allow you to disable onboard features via the BIOS.