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    x-fi card..

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jl1989, Feb 1, 2008.

  1. jl1989

    jl1989 Notebook Evangelist

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    are the x-fi sound cards just for the laptop built-in speaker quality.... or would they affect the sound quality if you plugged headphones/speakers. etc in ??
     
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    jooooeee Stealth in disguise

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    If your talking about the express card slot ones I think they are just for your headphones or speakers not the laptop speakers.
     
    jooooeee, Feb 1, 2008
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    The major benefit is for the headphones and external stuff, you can use the compatability pass-through feature to do some tweaking for the internal speaker, but in my experience it's not worth it and increases gaming issues.

    X-Fi is primarily to boost the quality of your external output.
     
    TheGreatGrapeApe, Feb 1, 2008
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