What is a 'sound card'?
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It's an external, separate "card" (similar to an SD card that you would put in a camera for more memory to store pictures) with different sounds on it than what comes installed in the sound machine to give you different sounds to choose from.
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It means you can buy additional sounds (beyond the standard sounds it comes with) on a chip that can be inserted into the machine.
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They're outputs, but yes, it's a surround sound card and has separate outs for stereo speakers and a sub as well as other surround outputs. Good card, especially for the money.
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I have an older HP Pavilion laptop that doesn't "see" my onboard soundcard. The USB external soundcard is a soundcard itself, so it replaces the onboard card. It works great on my laptop - simply plug it in and attach headphones or external powered speakers. It won't make the laptop speakers work, so you have to have separate speakers or headphones/earbuds. I don't your PC, but it worked great for me.
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Sorry.Shouldn't need a sound card. Depending on your system config. What OS are you running?
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The card does support sound via the hdmi cable. I had to open my playback devices and set the default to 50 PCT3D-OE-3 NVIDIA HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO DEFAULT DEVICE
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The quality of a sound card you may want will depend on the quality of the onboard sound your computer has. Recent and/or high end MOBOs have pretty decent onboard sound now and you would have to spend at least $150-$200 on a sound card to see any improvement. I got an ASUS Xonar Essence STX to power my SP2500 and the improvement over the onboard sound on my P9X79 WS MOBO, which had pretty good sound already, while nothing to sneeze at, still wasn't huge.
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I have heard, from LinusTechTips on YouTube, that the ASUS Xonar sound cards are great. I have the DGX, one of the cheaper ones, and it sounds really good.
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Hello, before you buy this card i just want you to know that i have this sound card last 2011, but i did not actually use it, it got an issue on drivers, i install the driver that comes with it and it didn't recognize on window xp 32bits and win 7 64bits. I email the company and they sent me a link for the driver, i downloaded the driver and it works but it is a little bit freaky, i mean that some times i got sound and then when i exit from a certain game i don't have sound on my main computer. I open my media player , no sound . I have to reboot the computer in order to have the sound back to the main computer. It seems that it change the settings for no reason...or the driver is not recognize. I didn't bother to return the card because it was cheap $39 bucks and i just want to experiment the card for other use for now. If your not planning to have a 5.1 or 7.1 sounds i recomend just buy the regular Creative sound blaster stereo.( the one with speaker out, mic in and line-in green,red and blue.) I hope this helps.
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Unfortunately you will not be able to use that particular type of card slot for the audio card. However, if your computer does not have an express card slot, then you can go with either a USB sound card, or purchase an adapter that would be express card to USB.
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u can prob plug headphones or speakers into this unit and it does have a sound card,but to be honest there are better units or stuff like that on the market,have u tried going to ur computers official site and redownloading the soundcard drivers,solid states don't actually have real sound cards,the drivers work on laptop
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It's essentially got a built-in sound card, so you don't need a sound card at all.
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Yes, but in my case i had to manually select my sound device as the tv to which my card was connected to via hdmi. On windows 7 you can do this through the program 'sound' which can be found in the control panel or you can search sound in the start menu.
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Yes, it has on-board sound and you could add a Sound Card if desired (PCIe).
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Depends on the sound card . I think I have spa sounds and it has crickets which I use every night! Love it!
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It's a PCI sound card. You're motherboard may not have one depending on its make and age. Try finding your motherboard online to determine if its compatible.
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I dont know. but this usually sounds better than the computer on board sound on old computers. But I am using the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI Express Sound Card and it is awesome sounding get that one like that if you want a good one.
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It all depends on your mother board. If it is a gaming motherboard it will most likely have a very good sound card built into it. If you have a cheap one, expect it to have cheap sound.