Which one should i pick?

[gkko]

Hey all,

I have bought a new motherboard and on the previous one i had supremefx sound chip, on the new one i only have a acl892 without any dac or amplifier which seems not enough even for me.

So either i take abck my mobo and buy a better one I'd say asrock z370 extreme 4 which has the following for + 40$

- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
- Premium Blu-ray Audio support
- Supports Surge Protection
- Supports Purity Sound™ 4
- Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps
- 120dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier
- NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets)
- Pure Power-In
- Direct Drive Technology
- PCB Isolate Shielding
- Impedance Sensing on Front Out port
- Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
- RGB LED
- 15μ Gold Audio Connector
- Supports DTS Connect

OR

I stick with this one and buy a dedicated sound card for 70$ ish. I am currently and probably will use a hyperx cloud.

I wonder which one would be a better solution

 

[madmatt30]

So what is your current motherboard ??

The hyperx cloud headsets are not particularly hard to drive.
A standard acl892 chipset will very likely handle them fine anyway.

 

[gkko]

So what is your current motherboard ??

The hyperx cloud headsets are not particularly hard to drive.
A standard acl892 chipset will very likely handle them fine anyway.

Sorry i missed it out, its an MSI z370 a-pro

So it would be enough to upgrade for the asrock extreme 4 just for the features it has? Also in other territorries like oc and others it would be an up too, but mainly the sound is what im not satisfied with this msi.