Possible to use sound card and onboard sound simultaneously?

[tomster2300]

Would this work?

When I was using my old desktop (still in my sig) I had my usb turntable plugged into the external sound box that came with my sound card. I had it configured that while my computer was turned on, I could put a record on and have it play through my computer's surround sound without having to enable a thing or even touch my computer.

With my new computer I bought the Gigabyte DS3R mobo because of its HD audio and no longer use a sound card (I've never had one in this computer). I'm rearranging my room and would like to reconnect the turntable up to my new computer, but am kind of stumped on how to do it. The only solution I can think of is to put the old sound card into this new computer and use the external box to plug the turntable's phono RCA jacks into it.

I believe my HD onboard audio on this mobo sounds better than the Audigy 2 card, so is there a way to use both? I want the sound card just to be used for the external box, and everything else use the onboard sound.

[Lespaul20]

You can use two cards at once but you might have to play with the audio settings. If you have a control panel from creative you should be able to control it with that or you might have to change something in control panel in windows.

[Tin]

I use 2 cards in my main rig. I use the onboard for games and my Prodigy HD2 for music. Some apps let you choose which card you want to use. Foobar2000 lets me pick the HD2 ASIO driver...while everything else runs from the onboard. Just try not to mix cards of the same manufacturer, thats where you get audio issues.