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<blockquote data-quote="Olyrous" data-source="post: 70422" data-attributes="member: 23548">PCI soundcards have the advantage over on-board solutions in that&nbsp; they are less susceptible to noise induced by motherboard electronics. For example, during heavy hard disk activity (e.g. extendend searches, defragmentation etc.) I personally used to get noise through my headphones and speakers at mid-to-high volumes (the noise obviously still existed at low volumes but it was too low to hear it) that it was like hearing&nbsp; my hdd seeking through my audio equipment.This is not anymore since I installed my soundcard.You can do the following: start a defragmentation on a heavily fragmented hdd and check if you hear any noise throughout the process from your audio equipment like I did. If you do, you might want to consider using a pci soundcard and if you do not, you have an exceptional on-board audio implementation.DEN PROSEKSA OTI EISAI ELLINAS. Geia hara!&nbsp; Kai ego apo ellada. Thessaloniki</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olyrous, post: 70422, member: 23548"] PCI soundcards have the advantage over on-board solutions in that they are less susceptible to noise induced by motherboard electronics. For example, during heavy hard disk activity (e.g. extendend searches, defragmentation etc.) I personally used to get noise through my headphones and speakers at mid-to-high volumes (the noise obviously still existed at low volumes but it was too low to hear it) that it was like hearing my hdd seeking through my audio equipment. This is not anymore since I installed my soundcard. You can do the following: start a defragmentation on a heavily fragmented hdd and check if you hear any noise throughout the process from your audio equipment like I did. If you do, you might want to consider using a pci soundcard and if you do not, you have an exceptional on-board audio implementation. DEN PROSEKSA OTI EISAI ELLINAS. Geia hara! Kai ego apo ellada. Thessaloniki [/QUOTE]

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