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  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    A sound card is a device you add to your motherboard if for some strange reason your motherboard doesn’t have the ability to play sound already. I have literally never heard of anyone needing one since about 1995.

    Maybe it’s for a retro system? It’s not exactly expensive.

    • Daxtron2@startrek.website
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      8 months ago

      A lot of motherboards cheap out on their audio. I had one that had a lot of EMI in the line in and swapped it out for a 30$ card like this and it cleared it up so people would stop telling me my mic sounded like shit lol.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Apparently having a dedicated sound card and high end audio equipment can improve the quality of the sound. You can chalk it up to audiophile stuff.

    • DumbAceDragon
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      8 months ago

      I actually had to add a dedicated sound card to my PC because the onboard one shat itself and died somehow, and it was way cheaper than a new motherboard.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      I literally have a modern system that does not have any audio onboard.

      I put in a USB connected mixer that also functions as an audio interface for my PC… But I could have easily gone this way too.

    • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      I had a board that the onboard audio was causing crashes. I disabled it and installed a PCI sound card and everything was fine.