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Originally Posted by Staren
You'd lose speed plugging into a USB port rather then a built-in sound card that is a given. I'm not sure if you would lose a lot of quality, but logic says you would lose 'something' forcing the data down a USB ware rather then the short hop over a PCI slot.
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Transfer speeds are considerably faster on the PCI slots than the USB 2.0 ports. Theoredcially, a USB 2.0 can transfer 60MB/sec (480 Megabits/sec) while a PCI slot can handle 1 GB/sec or 1000 Megabyte/sec (8Gbit/sec).
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