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?
@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
@noiob yeah that's reasonable
@Felthry
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.
I'm kind of wondering why they're still made