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Sometimes the onboard chipset sucks. When I was using onboard sound, my last PC used roughly 30% of one core when playing MP3s and would stutter if I tried to browse the web at the same time. Installing an el cheapo soundcard fixed it. I have no idea what the problem was.
My current PC still uses a bit more CPU than I'd like to play audio, but I haven't bothered to look for another solution because it's not a dorm room PC anymore and I rarely listen to music on the PC.
Commented May 5, 2011 on Who Needs a Sound Card, Anyway? at Coding Horror
Who Needs a Sound Card, Anyway?
The last sound card I purchased was in 2006, and that's only because I'm (occasionally) a bleeding edge PC gamer. The very same card was still in my current PC until a few days ago. It's perhaps too generous to describe PC sound hardware as stagnant; it's borderline irrelevant. The default, bu...
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