What Are Sound Cards?
“Sound cards are actual audio cards that you’d slide into a computer, or they can be external. In my case, I have an external sound card, which I’ll show. And basically, it plugs in through a USB interface, but typical sound cards plug into the PCI slot on a motherboard of a standard computer. Also, most laptops like I have here have integrated sound cards that plug in either on the front or on the side. These sound cards are just generally what literally, the computer uses to reproduce sound. Sound cards are generally not built into desktops. They are actual cards themselves, unless you’re looking at a low-end PC. On all laptops they will have some sort of sound card built in always. Whether that sound card has a microphone, or line-in, or specific connections is up to the manufacturer. Generally, the more higher end sound cards will have better connectors and digital infa interfaces. On my particular computer I have headphones, line-in, and microphone slots, as well as HDMI which sup
