I have encountered quite a few computers where you could hear the CPU/GPU “accelerating” in the sound card.
I never owned such a cheap board. Lucky me. Mainboard for enthusiasts are much better than those in the laptops and “large-scale” PC sales.
The round up (https://www.techspot.com/review/2907-amd-x870-motherboards/) shows impressive values for all modern enthusiast mother boards.
Again, today is so easy to achieve pro-level audio quality, for only few dollars (literary).
For example, the cross-talk for:
- Consumer audio: -60 dB or lower is acceptable.
- Professional audio (studio grade): -80 dB or better is typical.
The roundup article above show values over 80db. The THS is also ridiculous small. Compared with your “classic” analog amplifier (1 to 10%), you can simply say they are net zero!
Again, today is ridiculously easy to obtain high quality for audio. You can buy 5 class D amplifier chips (like PAM8xxx) from ebay for 2.5 euros (this includes shipping over the ocean). Preamplifiers are only a few cents. If you buy at bulk, the price goes under 1c.
Any board that has low quality sound, shows how little they care about quality or how willing they are to sacrifice quality in order to save under $1.