Heft of an Audio Card? (1 Viewer)

[John*K]

I happened to see photos of a few audio cards, and noticed that the cheaper ones tended to be smaller, with a lot less chips. Does the general audiophile "amplifier weight test" apply to sound cards as well? From the looks of it, I would say ys!

 

[John*K]

To clarify, I was thikning of the soundblaster, with its add on card and drive bay piece. That's a lot of pasrts as compared to a lot of soundcards today.

 

[Sean W. Evans]

This will be a novice answer. But what I think you find, is with the "heavier" or larger" soundcards...more sound processing is handled on the card as opposed to being offloaded to the cpu. Now for example, a SB Audigy with the bay drive will have a higher sampling rate and performance wise is better for the computer. DVD audio sounds awesome on mine. But what I think and "assume" is more chips, more processing.