EggXpert

 I searched the forums didn't find anything but will a decent sound card raise my FPS at all? All m games run great on my rig I was just curious if I could squeeze out a few more FPS with a good sound card???? thanks for any & all replies!!!

First!!

OMG   SOUNDCARD+ FPS  ....  FAIL

This has to be the second most idiotic questions asked. Sorry for the bluntness but comeon can you really think that a sound card is going to increase FPS. Can we say NOT.

i came back to lol. integrated sound already uses next to nothing on your processor. sound card is for better sound.

meh it don't hurt to ask just thought about it. Most of my game files were audio so it makes sense to me. lol. I don't have a audio CPU usage monitor machine! haha.

That's the thing, there is no such thing as an Audio Processing Unit. Audio is processed by the CPU through the OS subsystem exclusively.

The only thing "Getting a better sound card" does for you, as stated, is better audio QUALITY.

You are still completely misunderstanding the concept of how Audio and FPS interact: They Do Not.

same as the people who buy separate network cards because they think they get a lot more FPS in games...

There was a time where having a separate sound card did help take some load off the CPU (barely still though). But that was a long time ago, onboard solutions are good enough for most people now and CPUs are more than capable of handling game audio without a sweat. The money is better spent elsewhere if you're concerned about FPS.

The answer is: in most games, no FPS difference.  

About 10 years ago, when 3D accelerating cards were far from ubiquitous, many games offered software rendering.   That is, if you lacked a card that supported OpenGL, Glide or Direct3D, you could still play a game at very low quality settings using CPU alone.  That optiion is now gone - game will do what it can with your video hardware, but no more.

It is kinda similar with sound these days.  Games for the most part will make use of a n EAX card if they find one, but if not, you simply get basic sound.   Not that many games DO bother with advanced sound that could use an EAX card, truth be told.    And only a handful of games (Crysis is one, I believe) offer advanced sound via software - that is using the CPU.  So, if you are playing one of those games, and chose the 'advanced sound via software', and have a monster video system that is constrained (or close to being constrained) by a sub-optimal CPU, then a dedicated sound card will increase performance.   Lots of ifs here.  

Real reason for an X-Fi card is quality of sound.   Not the 'audiophile' type quality, but rather the sound environment.    I.E. Fear, Thief 3, Bioshock all sound incredibly more detailed with an X-Fi card.   The card can resolve a lot more sources at once, with proper application of distance and occlusion. 

See that's the educated answer I was shopping around for thank you!!! lol. Everyone else don't respound to posts if you're just going to say something stupid. Not what ppl on here are looking for.

Well am glad someone felt pity on you to spend the time to elaborately say no sound cards don't increase fps.

It was still a question that common sense could have answered for you. What governs fps? The video card does and to some extent the cpu.

I did say sorry for the bluntness.

You must always remember some of the royalty you are blessed to be threadin with here AMD.

There's been a few times I have, myself, bowed and kneeled upon entering.

lmao.

 

sparker366:

Well am glad someone felt pity on you to spend the time to elaborately say no sound cards don't increase fps.

It was still a question that common sense could have answered for you. What governs fps? The video card does and to some extent the cpu.

I did say sorry for the bluntness.

And the RAM... but yes, it's very simple and should be common sense to the average PC user that adding an extra card with an on-board audio chip should not alleviate workload from the CPU and therefore cause the system to have more resources available and hence run faster. Because thinking so would be against all logic.

Not really considering how often tech advances plus its not like u can shut everything in your comp off and only your vid card is used and nothing else.. your RAM and CPU HDD all exist and are used to some extent in gaming so its a valid Q. Not like i didn't research it at all 1st i just thought I would bring my Q to this community vs trusting other explanations online but a majority ppl are kind of rude on here so i guess i shouldn't of expected much. lol Anyways forgot to respond back to this thread thanks every1 for all the responses

Hence the sarcasm... I agree with you, it's a valid question.

MEH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmjnYKlVnM

This exactly why I stopped using this forum, what a bunch of asinine and immature  comments! Sorry about your experience AMDGuy.

brightstar:

This exactly why I stopped using this forum, what a bunch of asinine and immature  comments! Sorry about your experience AMDGuy.

The posts are funny.... Laugh...

My friend has a pigeon and I asked him if I could borrow it to boost my Internet speeds.. so I can get faster FPS in games..

 

 

People trust Newegg and come to the forums expecting mature answers...even If they are silly questions to us, they are not to the poster. This kind of chastising can rune a brand and turn people off from shopping here. While I may laugh behind my screen, I would politely explain the matter, not tell them how stupid they are.

I feel like this forum is so "rune"ed too.

What kinda Runes tho? Or glyphs maybe?

this thread is now a sueless flame fest, locking.