Will old Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS work in new computer?

[sanjay_03]

window 7 version

 

[ARICH5]

no. drivers for win 7 are terrible. those old audigy's were made for winxp sp1...some games dont even run with sb's..ie:stalker.

cpu/mobo's onboard sound is much better now.

unless you have 500 speakers and headphones you wont notice a difference anyway

 

[jaguarskx]

Generally speaking, onboard audio should provide similar audio quality as an old SB sound card. It is also does not steal away much performance from the CPU. I read an post about comparing playing games with onboard sound and a discrete sound card a couple of years ago. The difference in performance ranged between 1% - 2% so if you play a game where you are getting 60FPS with a discrete sound card, using onboard sound will at most drop that down to 58.8FPS. CPUs are a bit faster today than 2 years ago so the drop in performance should be less especially for CPU with more than 2 cores.