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I agree with you, internal chips are "surprisingly decent", but another reason to use a Sound Card is for the external inputs: most of the built-in solutions have plugs for mic, headphones and speakers, but not for line-in (I use sometimes line-in to record from external devices, e.g. tapes or vinyl).
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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