i guess you might want one now if you have some fancy surround sound setup or something but other than that every motherboard has integrated audio hardware and modern CPUs are more than capable of doing all the FM synth, wavetable synth, and direct sample playback you could need
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i guess you might want one now if you have some fancy surround sound setup or something but other than that every motherboard has integrated audio hardware and modern CPUs are more than capable of doing all the FM synth, wavetable synth, and direct sample playback you could need