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    Will an expresscard soundblaster increase performance?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Ddraig, Jun 13, 2008.

  1. Ddraig

    Ddraig Newbie

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    Hi all. I just picked up a dell m1530 laptop. Now it used to be that having a dedicated sound card in a desktop system would increase your system performance a bit because it was taking work away from the CPU. I'm not sure how true that is anymore with integrated sound cards on motherboards. I'm even less sure about how it works for a laptop as this will be my first one.

    Will getting an expresscard soundblaster for my laptop increase performance over the "integrated soundblaster audigy?" I'm sure it will give me better sound, but will it actually have an effect on performance by removing some work? Sorry if I'm completely off on this, it's been years since I put a system together.

    Thanks
     
    Ddraig, Jun 13, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    working from an external device is usually slower. It will still use the CPU
     
    flipfire, Jun 13, 2008
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Express card has the chip but no processing power so as ff side does not take load off CPU.
     
    powerpack, Jun 13, 2008
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