Video card sound quality

[mrcrazyshoes]

is the sound quality of a video card through hdmi any good? is it at least better than the on-board audio? My card is an HIS HD 6770. My onboard audio can't output surround sound into anything useful so i have to either get a dedicated sound card or get surround through the video card.
Thanks!

 

[linkin]

Never tried it, but hey, they'd be hard pressed to make audio worse than Realtek on board. A dedicated sound card is the way to go though.

 

[allen9600]

idk how well the audio gets produced through the hdmi on the video card.

but i can tell you that a dedicated sound card will always sound a lot better than any other. its definitely worth spending some money on them if you want true surround on your pc.

ASUS Xonar Essence STX is a nice card
http://www.eio.com/p-9740-asus-xona...ace-124-db-snr-headphone-amp-card-retail.aspx

 

[User0one]

I use Geforce GT 520 it has the fifth generation of PureVideo HD, has great performance when decoding H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 codecs and TrueHD and DTS-HD Audio Bitstreaming Support.

 

[Bdavis0410]

I have an ATi Radeon 5770 HD graphics card, and I use my hdmi cable from my xbox. Works great, and sounds even better. My monitor isn't anything to brag about, but the sound output is very good. Also, I haven't ran into any problems with it either. The surround through the video card with be just as good, and for a cheaper price than buying a dedicated sound card for just the cost of an hdmi cable. Hope this helps!