Is a soundcard essential?

[Wurlitzer]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is necessary to have a soundcard installed on the machine running GB-PVR?

The reason is that I´m running a purpose built WHS at home on which I´m thinking of installing GB-PVR but I´d like to keep the installed hardware/drivers down to a minimum too eliminate as many fault sources as possible.

My Hardware:
ASUS P5KPL-VM Motherboard (with Integrated G31 Graphics, Realtek HD Sound, Gigabit LAN)
Intel Celeron DuoCore 1,6 GHz
2 Gb RAM
Promise S-ATA300 TX2-Plus
Terratec Cinergy T XS Hybrid USB TV-Tuner (BDA Driver)
1 320 Gb HD Main HD
6 500 Gb HD (DATA)
1 400 Gb HD (Recording Drive, not part of the drive extension WHS uses)
Windows Home Server

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If you want to hear sound when playing a video on that machine, then you'll need a sound card, otherwise you wont need one.

[Wurlitzer]

Wonderful!

No, I don´t want to watch anything on it. It´s just gonna sit in my closet recording and serve up files for my different PC´s and other UPNP players.

Thanx a lot for such a quick answer.