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I'm kind of curious: is there any reason at all that someone might want to get a dedicated sound card for a modern PC?

I'm kind of wondering why they're still made

@Felthry Some workstation motherboards have no on board audio, for starters. And a lot of motherboard manufacturers don't have the best track record, though they're much better now. (Also I imagine recording studios.)

@Felthry Possibly there's ones dedicated to handle some specialist interfaces?

@Motodrachen What does a discrete sound card do that the one on the motherboard can't?

@Felthry my motherboard's sound stopped working so

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My last PC had one (it came with it).

I could have the audio channels separate for streaming, meaning I could broadcast game audio without voice-chat audio.

I can't do that on my current stack.

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