Which would sound better????

I was going to transfer my PCI Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card to my new PC which will be running on a MSI K4M4-V mboard.
Should I transfer the card or will the onboard sound off the mboard, ie VIA1617A Codec 5.1 Channel AC'97 software audio, sound better???
Thanks
Richard

I agree with osnavi. I had a sound blaster audigy in my computer when I first built it. Thought everything sounded great. Then I had some hardware conflicts and the sound card was to blame, so I removed it for troubleshooting purposes and forgot to put it back in. I started playing one of my games and I was astonished... The onboard was actually able to produce lower bass and in general sounded clearer.
As you have a different board than I do try both. Get a song that has extremes in both high and low sound and see which you like better. One thing as both ironcatt and kafkacell mentioned is in using the onboard sound, the CPU is used more, but with a seperate sound card some pressure is taken off of the CPU because the card is able to handle it. Performance in games is where you will notice most of the difference. But I have never even thought about going back to that card (although I am eyeing the new X-Fi cards).
Good Luck
Jeremy

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