Soundcard ... onboard or old SB live?

[super-saint]

Hi

In process of building new gaming PC

Am getting an ASUS M5A78L ATX motherboard - this has inbuild soundcard

In my existing PC, I have an old Soundblaster Live PCI card.

Could the SB Live card do a job or am I best sticking to the onboard card?

Cheers
Saint

 

[patrick47018]

Looking at that motherboard I say go ahead and use the Soundblaster, is the Soundblaster higher channel audio?

 

[itzdanielp]

For gaming there is no point in using the sound blaster.

 

[jitpublisher]

I think sound is very, very subjective. What one person says sounds great, another will say it sounds terrible.
You know, if it were me I would be trying both ways to see which I thought was better.

 

[littleleo]

An old SB Live might give you driver issues, try the audio off the motherboard 1st and see how it compares to your old SB live. It's specs don't look too bad Realtek® ALC887 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC. You can always pop the SB live in later if you're unhappy with it.