On 07/05/17 12:44 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
It has nothing to do with long-livedness -- it just makes a damn lot of sense from an economic POV. A "real" soundcard is like 13× the price of a 1-bit mainboard speaker because of all the logic chips, occupies a precious PCI slot in your 1RU server, and you still don't have speaker boxes to hear beeps (or soft PCM bells)...
I'm puzzled. My Dell Mobo has sound output and video output and USB output but none of the slots are occupied. As far as I can make out all these functions are managed by the Intel 82 thousand chip set. It seems to be not the 'extra chips' so much as you get all this in the chip set whether you want it or not. If I wanted blazing video, yes I could plug in a nVidia board (assuming my PSU can handle it) and disable the on-board. If I wanted 5-dimensional surround sound (and paid for all the speakers and power amps) I could plug in a sound card ditto. YMMV. I don't have the motivation. I'm sure there are enough consumers quite happy with cost effectiveness of the integrated 'everything you need on the mobo' approach. I don't know if there is a old fashioned speaker. I'll look the next time I open the box to clean out the cat hair jamming up the fans. :-) When I come to think of it I get to wonder abut how many PCI slots vs what's on the mobo with my cell phone and table :-) OBTW: Its a Dell Optiplex 755. I have a headphone jacked in to the front socket but the headphone's own volume is turned off. -- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org