XPS 8960, with GeForce RTX 4070 Super, new PCIe sound card?

If it's a tight fit, you may consider external USB sound card.  Example of Sound Blaster 3 from Creative Labs.

Do yourself a favor and ditch the Realtek altogether and there is no reason to get a Soundblaster.

Your RTX4070 is also an HD sound card.

I did it last year and never looked back.

@Element115s4​ OK. How do I connect my Klipsch 2.1 speakers directly to my RTX 4070? Do I need an audio extractor?

When I'm playing music from my Realtek audio and when I surf the internet at the same time, my music buzzes or hums for a split second. The more multi-tasking I do, the worse it gets.

I'm using external Klipsch speakers with subwoofer. I have one 3.5mm cable plugged into the sound card. I'm also using the Max Audio Pro Waves software.

Bios version 2.12.0 (9/18/24)

@jlsohio76​ 

I just use my OLED LG's HDMI/ARC so it's easy for me.

I also use a 3rd party program called FXSound for my equalizer (works great and it's free).

I did have issues with the Realtek and its drivers which are just badly implemented even though I did get them working ok.

I decided to just disable that (wished I could just disable the onboard sound in the bios like the 8960 can).

HDMI is so much better for sound...it's not even a contest. :)

@Element115s4​  OK, thank you for your reply. 

I decided to use my Focusrite audio interface as my sound card. Plugged my Klipsch speakers into it. Using the equalizer from my Plexamp app. Sounds pretty good.

@jlsohio76​ 

Cool.

It's not hard to improve on Realtek onboard audio. :P