This determines the quality of the sound the computer produces. The good quality of sound card therefore produces quality sound, hence is preferred if you intend to use the computer for music, games and video. Most Educational CDs or DVDs as well as DVD movies, require sound card availability on your computer.

There are many brands and makes of Sound Card in the market, but they all fulfil the requirements they intend to give, all you have to look for is, just see what features are mentioned in the specification, and how they are compared to the other versions of the same make available for you to choose. Wavetable sound cards are more realistic as they produce a highly complex music based on samples of real recorded sound; others use synthesiser.

Updated: 10 Dec 2011

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Yohannes Berhe