Hi! I currently am running a Realtek HD onboard sound specs as follows...AMD 925 no OC, 8Gb DDR2 800MHz, HD4830, Win 7 X64. My question is this...a friend recently gave me a Creative Audigy SE card since he ran out of PCI slots and wanted to add a capture card. Now I'm not having any trouble with the onboard but I do like to game so would it be worth adding the Audigy? Is the sound quality on these high enough to make a difference? Will it help with framerate?
I'm afraid I haven't messed with soundcards since the days of Win9x and SoundBlaster so I have no clue about modern sound cards and whether they are worth the effort anymore or not. If it'll make a noticeable difference in sound quality or gaming I'll stick it in in a heartbeat, but I'd hate to go to all the trouble of tearing into the machine if in the end I can't tell the difference.
So has anybody here had any experience with the Audigy SE? is it better or worse than Realtek HD? And the thing I'm most afraid of is the drivers, as I heard some horror stories about Creative and Vista, has it gotten better with Windows 7? Is the Creative 64bit drivers stable? Thanks for any advice in advance...Kev
I'm afraid I haven't messed with soundcards since the days of Win9x and SoundBlaster so I have no clue about modern sound cards and whether they are worth the effort anymore or not. If it'll make a noticeable difference in sound quality or gaming I'll stick it in in a heartbeat, but I'd hate to go to all the trouble of tearing into the machine if in the end I can't tell the difference.
So has anybody here had any experience with the Audigy SE? is it better or worse than Realtek HD? And the thing I'm most afraid of is the drivers, as I heard some horror stories about Creative and Vista, has it gotten better with Windows 7? Is the Creative 64bit drivers stable? Thanks for any advice in advance...Kev