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"Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not in the same way, as you aren’t using the integrated gpu at all if you get an external one. I guess if you’re talking about shared ram this makes sense though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I seem to recall the integrated sound wasn't used either, when I had my sound card in - the audio connectors were going directly into the sound card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yea, IDK how it works as I've never had a computer back then, but the quoted reply makes it sound like getting a sound card would take load off of the CPU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

oh - my apologies, I forgot that on-board graphics have a dedicated chipset. Also, no idea whether on-board sound would have used CPU power back in the late days of soundcards, as the comment I responded to was claiming... might have been a sound chip for that, too..