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A sound card is not necessary unless your motherboard does not have an on-board audio chip or the on-board audio chip does not meet your audio needs. Many on-board audio chips on motherboards now also have HD audio i.e. featuring surround sound and special digital audio inputs/outputs. If you are an audio fanatic and require extremely high quality sound input, you should invest in a separate quali... read more.
Nop, i think you allready have one on board, else you can't listen with your headset.
A pci soundcard isn't needed, it only makes the quality better, and it has more funcitons (like tvout, etc) As long if you don't need this, you dont need a pci soundcard  Mark
Do you mean a NEW soundcard. If so, I think you don't need. The quality's not very different. If you want a new sound card with 5.1 sound output. You'll need to buy new speaker system also.
Unless you are a death-fan of games, you should stay with your current soundcard.
u have a sound card it is on board. if you didnt you will never have sound sept ur pc beep.
ur game is crashign for other reasons such as ram video or cpu or heat or power tell us ur pc specs and we will try to help u fix ur prob ( sound isnt it) QUOTE(lisim @ Dec 22 2005, 12:57 PM) u have a sound card it is on board. if you didnt you will never have sound sept ur pc beep. ur game is crashign for other reasons such as ram video or cpu or heat or power tell us ur pc specs and we will try to help u fix ur prob ( sound isnt it)  Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 Intel Celeron 4A, 2433 MHz (6 x 406) 512mb of Ram 80gb Hardrive Radeon 9200 (Planning on upgrading to a 6600GT soon) I think that's it.  Hope that helped.
QUOTE(Jdz @ Dec 22 2005, 01:00 PM) Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 Intel Celeron 4A, 2433 MHz (6 x 406) 512mb of Ram 80gb Hardrive Radeon 9200 (Planning on upgrading to a 6600GT soon) I think that's it. well that should run cs:s i have had it runnign on a on my second box ezy uhh maybe try a fresh install of game * delete ur gdf files in ur steamapps folder and re downlaod other wise maybe try gfx card drivers or a fresh windows install
To be honest, I think it's the ATI Radeon 9200 that's getting you your freezes, it's quite an old type of graphics card and you can't really expect to have it run CS:Source smoothly can you? You should get that 6600GT as soon as possible
Anyway, you don't actually need a soundcard in a computer, it will run perfectly fine without it. Playing games is also very possible without sound, I play Call of Duty all the time without the gamesound and with music which is really comfortable btw. So playing without sound won't affect your gaming too .
if it is the case of the gfx card then bring the res and gfx settigns down i have seen cards worse then any 9000 series run cs:s its just a matter of quality and performance
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A sound card is not necessary unless your motherboard does not have an on-board audio chip or the on-board audio chip does not meet your audio needs. Many on-board audio chips on motherboards now also have HD audio i.e. featuring surround sound and special digital audio inputs/outputs. If you are an audio fanatic and require extremely high quality sound input, you should invest in a separate quality sound card, which are quite expensive in the high-end range. These specialised sound cards have features (e.g. electromagnetic shielding) that help deliver high quality sound without distortion, although differences may not evident in all situations where audio is used.
Ya, but remember, most sound cards don't offer hardware acceleration anyways. It's not going to pull much performance off the system even if you had a hardware acceleration.
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I don't really remember, but as I know if there is no sound card or something or similar stuff, the processing is done by CPU as said, so if I don't have one, and will try to play an MP3 file, it will be done by the chip using CPU which will be much slower than with a decent sound card, besides almost all motherboards include a sound card drive and yeah, if you have a bad sound system, speakers and etc, only stereo you don't really need a good sound card, for a better sound you should have at least 5.1 surround system or even better, only when you should get a good sound card.
As said above, sound cards are NOT required on contemporary computers (the past 8 years) because that's what the onboard sound chip is suppose to do. Newer sound chips are just as good as sound cards since all the processing is done on the CPU anyways.
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a sound card is only nessissary if yu wish to have sound, if you are a gamer is is recomended depending on what game you play as it is required to hear some commands but for general email ect you don't need it but it is nice
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