On board Sound or not

[El Pelican]

Got a Sound blaster ZX as a dedicated card which has a Creative® Sound Core 3D chip.

http://www.hardwarebbq.com/creative-sound-blaster-zx-review/

My current Mobo has also the same chip (Gigabyte x99 Gaming G1)

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5126#sp

Which I'm better off using?

Booth can do 5.1 channel output and they booth use the same core chip.

Ideas?

Edit: As I have one PCIe 2.0 x1 slot, I need to choose either use that slot for the dedicated sound card or a dedicated RAID card, which of these you think it's more important to be used?

Thanks for your help

 

[Dogsnake]

If you did a blind comparison through the same playback system I do not think you will hear any difference between the two. If you want better playback from the PC get some good speakers or a top headset. If you are interested (http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Powered-Speaker-Systems) these are some of the best sounding at reasonable prices. The A5+ is unbelievable. The A2+ are better than most costing half again as much.

 

[El Pelican]

The only 5.1 speakers I own are the Logitech Z506.

Both the dedicated card and the mobo sound card uses the same audio chipset, however Which will be better for gaming and playing music?

Thanks

If you did a blind comparison through the same playback system I do not think you will hear any difference between the two. If you want better playback from the PC get some good speakers or a top headset. If you are interested (http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Powered-Speaker-Systems) these are some of the best sounding at reasonable prices. The A5+ is unbelievable. The A2+ are better than most costing half again as much.

 

[Dogsnake]

I do not think you could tell the difference between the two. If it was me I would use the on board chip/system. I would remove the sound card as well.
Reference these (http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/353288-28-sound-card-reviews) and (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/high-end-pc-audio,3733.html). The second article is an in depth analysis by Tom's Hardware and the first is opinions from an earlier forum post. Your two options for sound are so similar in performance, so that your speakers are most likely unable to reveal the differences between the two. Also the differences may not make one better than the other as they are just differences.