I wasn't thinking about doing an Audio A-B comparison. I was going to compare the specs and use the on-board audio if it was the same or better. Given the SoundBlaster add-on card is 5 years old, I figured for sure it was slower / etc.
It used to be that cheaper on-board audio used the processor and was really basic. That's probably not true anymore given the way silicon has gone.
I was looking for a program that would give me specs like max width - 16-24-32? - max number of voices [? is that a spec?] etc.
For audio cards I don't even know what specs to look for. I see that one of the cards does 24bit 48ks/s [but don't they all by now? Even the old one should do that, right?]
What are the other relevant specs to look for?
I'm doing Fraps video mixing on this machine, but that's not really dependent on the sound card and I only use 2.1 sound.
Thanks,
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