Types & Advantages of Sound Cards. ... To use anything other than a small, monophonic internal speaker, you'd need to buy a card that plugged into an expansion slot on your computer.

In the past, sound cards were installed to expansion slots -- a socket on the motherboard to which additional hardware could be inserted -- but most modern computers now feature an integrated chipset.

When you buy the Nu Audio Pro 7.1 you will receive a Nu Audio Pro stereo (with 5.1 optical out) card plus a Nu Audio Pro surround card bundle offering quadraphonic, 5.1 or 7.1 analogue surround sound.

Linux has a horrible history of sound card support! OSS, ALSA, PulseAudio etc. If it works at all, it either has slight timing issues or can’t do full-duplex operation.

For example, Seagate’s 1TB Storage Expansion Card is down to $125.99 at Amazon ($94 off), ... allowing you to dish out 360-degree sound for up to 14 hours with or without stereo pairing.

Card Types Today, PCI Express (PCIe) is the card interface in common use. These are the expansion cards in desktop computers since the IBM PC AT in 1984. For a brief description of each, see PC ...

Seeing graphics cards which can take on the strain of decoding high-definition video is quite usual, but ASUS have turned the tables slightly with their Xonar HDAV1.3 sound-card.