Samuel M. Goldwasser wrote:

IMO There are only a few onboard chipsets that are good in quality -
the rest, including realtek, tend to be rather noisy.

That's my feeling at this point. I'm also not that fussy as long as
it sounds decent. I don't need to shake the foundation.


On board sound chip failure is very very common. I wish I had a £($)
for every new machine or mainboard I've seen that had to have sound
card added because of it !

I've seen chips fitted rotated 90 out on the mainboard.

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Best Regards:
Baron.