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Huh, what is this 'soundcard' thing he's talking about... I haven't used a soundcard for more than 5 years. The last soundcard I bought was an SB AWE128, which

Huh, what is this 'soundcard' thing he's talking about... I haven't used a soundcard for more than 5 years. The last soundcard I bought was an SB AWE128, which I think was something like 10 years ago... After that, the motherboard integrated sound became pretty OK, at least for games and mp3 consumption, and from what I heard the SB cards were no longer getting better. Sure, if you're a musician you might have other requirements. Or if you invest in quality headphones and quality music files (not lousy old mp3s :).

wewyor 16y ago
I used a bithead on my computer with good headphones and FLAC/Apple Lossless files and it was nice, both linux and windows recognized the bithead right away but once that broke my headphones just got plugged in straight to the computer and the amplification isn't really a factor and not enough difference is head by my ears to make me go out and buy another bithead. Soundblaster is pretty awful now, plus it doesn't even work on linux but my last card was a soundblaster as well probably around '05.