MaRvIn February 20, 2014 Share MaRvIn Member February 20, 2014 If you go with USB headsets don't ever at all ever in the entire span of your life get a sound card ever. Hopefully made my point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samurai nightling February 20, 2014 Share samurai nightling Member February 20, 2014 I'd agree, you wont get the sound quality from the card like you would with all the little doohicky jacks. I don't even know what they're called cuz I use USB lol. But then again I don't have a sound card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farberio February 23, 2014 Share farberio Member February 23, 2014 A USB headset does not use the sound card available on the PC, so Marvin's point is not to waste money on a sound card if you aren't going to use it. The number of 'doohicky' jacks is just then number of dedicated channels (2, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1 etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick82 February 28, 2014 Share chick82 Member February 28, 2014 And please don't tell me you have a USB headset with that ridiculously expensive sound card I am lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX February 28, 2014 Share NOFX Member February 28, 2014 (edited) And please don't tell me you have a USB headset with that ridiculously expensive sound card I am lol I may be wrong here, but I've always been under the impression that USB headsets are much better than your cheap onboard sound, but they aren't in the same ball park as those expensive cards with an analog headset. You should make tirtul buy a good analog headset instead of a sound card and then give him your usb headset. You may be like turnbull and be able to hear dudes walking on the other side of the map... that is, if you can hear over your teaming whining every time they get shot Edited February 28, 2014 by NOFX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farberio February 28, 2014 Share farberio Member February 28, 2014 (edited) There is a whole science behind audio, and a whole lot of that is bound by the quality of the equipment you have. At the end of the day something, whether the on-board sound car or USB headset, needs to convert the signal from digital into analog. The benefit of a USB digital to audio converter(DAC) is that the conversion is done away from the signal noise of the motherboard though it doesn't mean that the actual conversion is any good. My journey into sound went: headset, diy non PC card headphone amp, and i am looking into buying a DAC in the near future. Edited February 28, 2014 by farberio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingCat March 1, 2014 Share walkingCat Member March 1, 2014 There is a whole science behind audio, and a whole lot of that is bound by the quality of the equipment you have. At the end of the day something, whether the on-board sound car or USB headset, needs to convert the signal from digital into analog. The benefit of a USB digital to audio converter(DAC) is that the conversion is done away from the signal noise of the motherboard though it doesn't mean that the actual conversion is any good. My journey into sound went: headset, diy non PC card headphone amp, and i am looking into buying a DAC in the near future. Crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX March 2, 2014 Share NOFX Member March 2, 2014 (edited) well, I was only referring to in game sound. I'm not a big audiophile and didn't try to get into quality of sound. I was referring more to the idea that onboard soundcards used to make the games sound like crap. Not just audio quality. I mean the guns sounded like crap and the positional audio was simply left or right. Then, I upgraded to a decent sound card, it took some of the load off my CPU and the guns in game sounded like totally new guns. It was night and day difference. Not to mention I could hear things I could never hear before... But all this was back in the day about 10 years ago... Then came USB headset that essentially has their own sound card built in them. Whether that sound card is a $5 cheapo or a $200 CREATIVE BLASTER MX PRO 2000 Ti + Tri force technology... I don't know. I've always assumed it was somewhere in the middle. Although now days onboard sound is nowhere near as bad as it used to be. It sounds pretty solid to me, but then again, I've never had any inclination to buy an expensive sound card to test against it. Edited March 2, 2014 by NOFX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick82 March 3, 2014 Share chick82 Member March 3, 2014 I'm pretty sure I'm wrong lol. Tirtul didn't buy any sound cards. Idk what he bought lol I just know it's nice haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroDamage March 14, 2014 Share ZeroDamage Member March 14, 2014 Did this already happen? I will list out my recommendations when I get home from work if not. If already purchased, I won't waste my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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