How good are motherboard dac now?

or just use a sound card /dac+amp

I have an Asus gayman MAXIMUS LXILLMSNDI FUCKING GOD EDITION that cost 10000$

Not good enough to power any proper headset at full power at least. Good enough to power your gayming headset.

Use a phone

As good as they have always been.
Motherboard, and interior of the chassis, is still an electrically noisy environment, though.

supremefx is just realtek

My mobo has alc1220
Absolutely no issues and the quality is great. Dacs are mostly useless nowadays

The motherboards worth buying at around $250 all have transparent dacs. Can plug your JDS atom or magni 3 directly into them and enjoy HiFi

My 8 years old PC with alc889 sounds perfectly, 0 noise. I checked and it says it's 108 dB SNR. In my search for an upgrade, I've seen many "good" modern mobos with considerably shittier DACs (on paper) than mine, which I think it's the reason mobos are known to be shit at audio, mine never having given me any problems because it was actually good. So if I upgrade I'm looking at alc1150 (115 dB SNR) or better alc1220 (120 db SBR), better than mine on paper, and I suggest you do the same.

none of those reach their rated SNR really, sure the DAC is rated at it, but the DAC alone is not the entire sound system

based, are you using headphone?

>not buying a motherboard with an optical output

Yes. Sennheiser HD569 (low impedance).

i have an x code, it drives a 600ohm set of headphones well and also no hiss. You can also buy MSI boards with 6.3mm jacks, yet there are no sound cards with them.

my board cost ~$300

I have an x470 taichi with HE400is should I buy a dac and amp?

should have waited for sale

How do you put the sound into your ears tho without a dac

Load up all sounds on a variety of record players for the 100% analog experience.

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Mine doesn't hiss but the volume is shit
Garbage honestly just get a inline dac amp
Lol just use a 3.5 adapter