few sound cards truly support EAX, and even fewer on-board onesthe on-board soundboard, like the other on-board features that were exclusively external once, are there just to fulfil one goal, to provide a minimum of support, because it costs time and development money to squeeze so many features, that you would find on a 4 inch long sound card, into a 0.5squareinch sound chiplike the integrated video cards, you can see and work with them ( browsing, office work, movies ), but don't expect to play the Witcher with all graphic details on HIGH on a ATI HD3200/nvidia 8200/intel 4500 integrated video card, so don't expect EAX 5 and audiophile sound quality on a Realtek/ADi2000/CMedia chip(ok, so many actually expect that their integrated video card works ok with Witcher, and they come here complaining, sorry
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