IRQ 5, I/O 220, DMA 01 🤘🏻
I was poor, so mine was typically running the “or SoundBlaster compatible” card.
“Your sound card works perfectly.”
And if you kept pressing it, it would tell you off. Back when even installers had more soul than their games do now.
I still have a sound card, because I have a stupid sound bar that works great except it only takes optical audio input.
Your mobo doesn’t have optical? I thought that’s pretty standard on everything except basic models.
I think SPDIF is being phased out because it needs to use compression to do surround sound.
Surprisingly, it’s not even on some high-end boards.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X670-AORUS-ELITE-AX-rev-10-12/
At least it was a real name. Nowadays it seems like every new company’s name is just a random jumble of letters solely because that .com was available.
blastr by creatv
The motherboard had nothing but the case usually had a speaker just to make a “beep” sound. I had to play Wolfenstein with that shit because my dad didn’t have a sound blaster until he also got a CD-ROM drive to play Doom since he could only find a copy on CD and not floppy disk.
And even now, a SoundBlaster32 is better than the in-built audio stuff motherboards do have. Though it’s not worth getting one just for games.
If you want good sound, buy an external usb DAC. It will be away from all electro magnetic interference and will be way better than any consumer stuff.
Modern built-in DACs are insulated well enough for good sound. You only want to spend money on an external one if you want excellent sound.
Except your analog cables going from your PC?
Which should be shielded for any decent sound equipment. Also they come from the front panel, away from major interference sources.
Lol how do you think they get to that front panel?
I mean sure go ahead and shield this and that (and still get em interference in the DAC card because it’s hooked up to the friggin PCI express bus on the motherboard) instead of using a simple USB cable.
You’re delusional.
