Quote Originally Posted by mikekim View Post

you my find some discernible difference in sound quality, depending on what speakers you use, and the room setup you are using, but i very much doubt that you will.
the main reason for using an additional soundcard in a PC today, (if you are not using it for music production) is to alleviate the sound processing task from the main CPU freeing up processing cycles for other tasks. the onboard chips supplied on motherboards are comparable to aftermarket cards for gaming and audio playback.
My bose speakers got an USB plug in and allready had good sound quality without a soundcard. So i'll just stick with that.