thinking of buying a new pc.intergrated vs separate sound card? amd vs intel for games? ati vs nvidia? thanks

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Whether your sound card is integrated or add-on these days doesn't make much of a difference as far as overall performance is concerned. However, if you are a sound fanatic and want the best quality with the least amount of hiss and noise, you will want to get an add-on sound card. Of course, your speakers need to be decent, as well, or else you're just wasting your time.

Depending on what type of processors you're planning to get, the AMD vs Intel argument goes either way. Currently, the Core 2 Duos smoke the X64s - but, the upcoming quad cores from AMD will be backwards compatible with Socket AM2.

I don't doubt that you'd be happy with your choice of either ATI or NVidia. Depending on what series card you get, the differences should be minimal.

BTW, the answer below is complete BS. With modern CPUs, the amount of resources used by onboard audio is minimal - quite unnoticeable, actually. The bells and whistles that come included with add-on cards uses much more. And the only way the audio has any affect on FPS is if you select an in-game audio mode that isn't supported by your current sound card. And, even then, it's very rare.

Answer 3

Separate are always the best. Intel Is the top CPU maker and right now nvidia beats ati but nvidia dont have a SLI vista driver.

Answer 4

AMD
Separate sound card
Nividia


When there is a sound card it takes some of the load off of the CPU and has a better sound. Nividia is compatible with more software and games than ATI.AMD is faster unless you are comparing it to a C2D.Benchmarks have shown that if you have separate sound card you have 2+ more FPS.Sorry i don't have the link.I have tried that and i got 8 FPS more.