Dell has recently dropped the SoundBlaster Recon3D sound card as an option. Does this XPS 8700 Special Edition have the SoundBlaster sound card?
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No, Dell does not offer the card; this product uses an on-board sound solution.
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Mine is hooked up to a desktop with a discrete sound card. I "suspect" if you go into control panel>sound, just make sure you choose the right output in "playback" tab of sound in control panel. It wanted to have AMD high definition sound but I changed it to my card. You can do this and if you are not sure which is the correct one, make sure you have music playing as you try each possibility, the one that lets sound come out your speaker is the correct one. This is a windows sound configuration issue, not a monitor issue, just saying. Hope that helps, if not, if you get the results and have amazon contact me I will try to help more. This is basically what Rick, the previous person tried to say. Mine is hooked up to a desktop with a discrete sound card. I "suspect" if you go into control panel>sound, just make sure you choose the right output in "playback" tab of sound in control panel. It wanted to have AMD high definition sound but I changed it to my card. You can do this and if you are not sure which is the correct one, make sure you have music playing as you try each possibility, the one that lets sound come out your speaker is the correct one. This is a windows sound configuration issue, not a monitor issue, just saying. Hope that helps, if not, if you... » Read More Mine is hooked up to a desktop with a discrete sound card. I "suspect" if you go into control panel>sound, just make sure you choose the right output in "playback" tab of sound in control panel. It wanted to have AMD high definition sound but I changed it to my card. You can do this and if you are not sure which is the correct one, make sure you have music playing as you try each possibility, the one that lets sound come out your speaker is the correct one. This is a windows sound configuration issue, not a monitor issue, just saying. Hope that helps, if not, if you get the results and have amazon contact me I will try to help more. This is basically what Rick, the previous person tried to say. « Show Less
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I dont know. but this usually sounds better than the computer on board sound on old computers. But I am using the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI Express Sound Card and it is awesome sounding get that one like that if you want a good one.
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Works fine for me, I use no sound card. Let me say this though: I use FL Studio, which uses that special audio driver, and it doesn't seem to like it when I do live recording via the FL sound driver. I have to go into my Audio options, disable my audio, and then it will function for recording live sounds (just a pain really, but still works). Other than that, I have no complaints running it through my 20$ logictech speakers.
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No particular additional sound card; but your computer or laptop needs to already have an audio output jack.
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no, you will need a sound card regardless to play sound on your computer ..... speakers of any kind only work with a soundcard installed.
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The card does support sound via the hdmi cable. I had to open my playback devices and set the default to 50 PCT3D-OE-3 NVIDIA HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO DEFAULT DEVICE
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I don't think so. The audio jacks (both front and back) that came with the computer are hard wired to the motherboard and once you enable the sound card, those are disabled. I bought the card my built in sound card failed. I was hoping the new card supported EQ function but it does not thus the audio/music sound like crap. I eventually swapped computers with my wife and gave her the Creative card as she can't hear the difference. I was disappointed the this card performance.
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Yes a sound card will take the sound processing off the CPU you games will have higher FPS and reproduce sound effects in games better, I would recommend Sound Blaster for my gaming rig I'm using the Sound Blaster Core 3D Fatality Champion not sure if the sound could be directed though the HDMI I have mine though the SPDIF on the card out to my RCA 5.1 receiver.
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i dont know wats in it or if it can be upgraded but you can get something like this. http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Soundblaster-Surround-System-SB1095/dp/B0044DEDCA/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1364767961&sr=1-2&keywords=external+sound+card
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Wow, I am truly sorry that one is too technical a question for me. I purchased to replace a Sound Blaster card that wasn't compatible with Windows 7 updates. It works great and the sound is fine but other than it works for me is the best I can tell you.
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Yea I have the asus xonar Dx it's great once you get a sound card there's no going back. Unless you get a rog board those have great sound cards on board the mobo
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Theoretically, a sound card will make a difference unless you happen to have a very good quality sound chip on your motherboard (very unlikely). If you can hear the difference or not depends on you. Good speakers are certainly more important than a dedicated sound card though.
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it has powee cable and one audio cable. you just plug it in to the audio jack of your dell
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I have heard, from LinusTechTips on YouTube, that the ASUS Xonar sound cards are great. I have the DGX, one of the cheaper ones, and it sounds really good.
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u can prob plug headphones or speakers into this unit and it does have a sound card,but to be honest there are better units or stuff like that on the market,have u tried going to ur computers official site and redownloading the soundcard drivers,solid states don't actually have real sound cards,the drivers work on laptop
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If you have this slot on your computer. It will support everything the built-in sound card does. This is an older verison of X-Fi and windows 8 may have better mixing software. Most computer today don't come with this Express card slot and I think Creative has gone to USB and on-board motherboard applications. Finally, this particular version (Notebook) you have does sound better than all of the rest, in my opinon.