First post, by ubertrout
This isn't that old...although it's older than we might like to think. I'm doing a C2Q build where I'm trying to push a Q9650 to the limit for...reasons. I'm going to be using a Gigabyte EP45T-UD3P Rev 1.0, which features ALC889A audio. However, I did recently take a X-Fi Titanium HD out of my main build as my new speakers from Peachtree include a USB DAC, and I'm not currently doing anything with it.
My main question is really just if there's a nontrivial performance boost to disabling the onboard sound and putting the X-Fi in? The X-Fi is a damn good card of course, but to be honest the onboard sound is pretty good too and more than enough for my use case. Let's define nontrivial as more than 1% in games arbitrarily.