Of course most serious gamers use headphones, I personally own $100 headphones just for gaming, (not that I'm proud to say they cost $100 :P), but if you've ever compared a set of high-end headphones, maybe the Sennheiser HD-280Pro for example, with integrated motherboard sound and with a Creative X-Fi or any somewhat high-end soundcard you WILL notice a difference, usually a considerably large difference in quality at that.
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Of course most serious gamers use headphones, I personally own $100 headphones just for gaming, (not that I'm proud to say they cost $100 :P), but if you've ever compared a set of high-end headphones, maybe the Sennheiser HD-280Pro for example, with integrated motherboard sound and with a Creative X-Fi or any somewhat high-end soundcard you WILL notice a difference, usually a considerably large difference in quality at that.