On board is easier and for any audio enthusiast, sounds like trash by comparison.
I have yet to meet an onboard audio solution that didn’t give you garbage in the output. Whether it’s coil whine, a low hiss or a 60hz him, there’s always something.
Onboard, in my experience also distorts way earlier into the volume slider by comparison.
But yeah, onboard is much easier.
Sounds poor.
It was the early days of computers, so it’s not like that’s really saying much. Most of it was a mishmash of stuff