Well I put together my secondary rig a couple of nights ago and managed to install an OS and play around with it yesterday. However, I noticed the onboard sound is pretty shoddy compared with my 'sig' rig with Audigy. Im not sure if it's driver problems or just the case with mobo onboard sound in general. The motherboard isn't high end stuff, just one of those I got for £25 on eveshame bay: an MSI Neo4-F (platinum according to the splash screen on bootup). Anyhow, I have been reading about X-fi and how great they are.
I have noticed there are different versions and not sure how they differ. Also will I benefit greatly or will I be better off spending a tenner on a audigy or other brand?
My uses are: movies, games and Internet
My budget: as little as possible (around a tenner perhaps, but if need be they X-fi price )
Oh the rig is below titled 'Super budget rig'
thanks