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In the past the simple answer was "yes". Today, the answer is a bit cloudy. Better quality sound from a dedicated sound card? Absolutely. Better performance, maybe. If you have an older computer with a single core processor, then better performance will be seen, but with something like a Core2Duo, you may see a tiny improvement, but not enough to really make a difference. With new computers it's a sound quality question, how nice do you want it to sound?