Does onboard audio on A7V133 affect CPU performance?

[chris154]

Sorry for my rather newbie question(or if it's dumb for that matter)
I read on many HW websites that onbord audio affects CPU performance. This has something to do with south bridge integration right? So does the A7V133 have a separate sound chip(and what the heck is AC 97 codec?). Reply would be greatly appreciated

 

[sohcrates]

onboard audio is an option on a7v133's. i'm running that board, but w/out onboard audio right now

onboard audio is usually pretty crap, and i don't see any real advantage to it, so i'd shy away from it all together

 

[Archknight]

The AC97 Codec is partially software base solution for onboard sound, it dependent on the CPU for processing data, thus slow down your PC overall performance. Also the sound is crappy.