News - Creative launches pair of USB soundcards

[HEXUS]

New external solutions bring enhanced audio in a compact form factor.

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[BullDogg]

Sigh, this made me wistful. I remember reading an article in PC Zone (which also made me wistful, both for the magazine and for the idea of getting PC/gaming news from a paper periodical) that said you could improve frame-rates by up to 10% in some games using a discrete sound card simply because it took pressure off the CPU.

How times change.

[Jasp]

You won't with these, unless they have made some under the hood changes neither features a hardware chip and uses CPU cycles...

[TooNice]

USB sound cards tend to eat CPU cycles. But given that I am rarely, no, never impressed by onboard sound cards it could offer a slight improvement for not too much money compared to a few years ago. Then again, Creative have not done much for sound cards since the X-Fi :/