Onboard Realtek vs Creative Sound Card. Help please!

I have no idea what to use between the onboard Realtek HD sound from my ASUS P5QL-PRO motherboard and my Creative Audigy 2 Value. I try to distinguish the difference and I don't know if my ears are playing tricks on me but it seems like the Realtek sounds better.

Has anyone compared these two? What are your thoughts? TIA. :D

I have no idea what to use between the onboard Realtek HD sound from my ASUS P5QL-PRO motherboard and my Creative Audigy 2 Value. I try to distinguish the difference and I don't know if my ears are playing tricks on me but it seems like the Realtek sounds better.

Has anyone compared these two? What are your thoughts? TIA. :D

gabs556

I also have Realtek audio for my motherboard. But, I'm using an Audigy 2 Value as well. Most of the time, the Realtek is fine. But for some reason, it kept crashing Crysis in the last Boss battle. I turned it off and installed my old Audigy 2 Value. The game's audio has been fine and dandy since.

After crossfiring and having to live with the onboard audio when testing I found it to be just fine, but my MB has pretty good on board sound so I dont really need the SB Sudigy, but no doubt the Creative stuff is pretty neat and the quality is nice.

I have no idea what to use between the onboard Realtek HD sound from my ASUS P5QL-PRO motherboard and my Creative Audigy 2 Value. I try to distinguish the difference and I don't know if my ears are playing tricks on me but it seems like the Realtek sounds better.

Has anyone compared these two? What are your thoughts? TIA. :D

gabs556

I don't know about the Audigy 2 Value, since that's a pretty old sound card at this point.. but I can hear an almost night-and-day difference between my onboard Realtek and my X-Fi Xtremegamer. Even on just a decent set of 2.0 speakers the whole spectrum of sound is much clearer with the X-Fi. That being said, I know there are many people who are very happy with onboard sound, since it has come a long ways since the early days.

There's an OBVIOUS difference on my set up.

Z-2300 speakers + creative x-fi xtreme music compared to my GA-EP35-D3SL's onboard.

I don't want to hijack the thread, but i have a question. I have an old pc (probably like 6 years) with a creative sound card. Would this be better or worse than my current realtek onboard? Would it be worth putting it in?

I don't want to hijack the thread, but i have a question. I have an old pc (probably like 6 years) with a creative sound card. Would this be better or worse than my current realtek onboard? Would it be worth putting it in?

kraken2109

Well... I'm still torn between the two. Still can't get to a conclusion as to which one's better.

i would say the realtek will probably sound better.

My Old Sound Audigy 2 blows that realtek joke outta the water :P I mean the dang microphone jack doesnt even work for my board... On Z-5300 Logitech. Its just betta.

I have Creative T3130 2.1 speakers. Very good budget $50 speakers if you ask me.

Here's what I got:

The Realtek is louder and boomier. Also has more noticable highs.

The Audigy has better mid range.]

I dunno, I think I'm just looking for a reason to justify using the Audigy's.

I have Creative T3130 2.1 speakers. Very good budget $50 speakers if you ask me.

Here's what I got:

The Realtek is louder and boomier. Also has more noticable highs.

The Audigy has better mid range.]

I dunno, I think I'm just looking for a reason to justify using the Audigy's.

gabs556

Well... I'm still torn between the two. Still can't get to a conclusion as to which one's better.

gabs556

If you google just about any other forum they say any value audigy > realtek onboard. Depends on the speakers also if its crap like the other poster suggests than forget it. With software update it can support the latest EAX, and also some of the sound is software emulation for realtek. It is subjective is whichever sounds best to you, is more like do you have the card around from an old rig? If you dont, dont worry about it.