what's a good sound card?
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Yea if you want something affordable, I'd say just get a Soundblaster Live 24 Bit.
$25 on Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102176
Works fine for me.
Although I would like to try an X-FI card sometime
$25 on Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102176
Works fine for me.
Although I would like to try an X-FI card sometime
Turgo
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Sound card eh? well heres my advice.
dont go with the Soundblaster Live 24 Bit, The Live series had all kinds of problems with windows xp and various motherboards. I should know I owned a Sounblaster live valu card. The cheapest card that I would ever recomend is the Turtle Beach Rivera. I consider that the bottom on terms of whats good. As for a realy good card I recomend the Creatives Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
Here are my reasons.
1. Its THX certified! So it has to sound good. You will hear things that you didnt on most other sounds cards, even on the Rivera card this has 2 to 3 times better sound quality.
2. It 24 bit capable, and it suports up to 7.1 surround, can you say over kill!
3. It seem to be the best card for the price.
Thats it.
unless you want to get the X-fi card. with is a little better, but costs more x-fi is basicly the Audigy Zs2 with a few more studio and recording features.
Btw Dont get anything on it that says Value.
Here are the newegg.com links/reviews, and prices
Audigy Zs 2
Rivera
dont go with the Soundblaster Live 24 Bit, The Live series had all kinds of problems with windows xp and various motherboards. I should know I owned a Sounblaster live valu card. The cheapest card that I would ever recomend is the Turtle Beach Rivera. I consider that the bottom on terms of whats good. As for a realy good card I recomend the Creatives Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
Here are my reasons.
1. Its THX certified! So it has to sound good. You will hear things that you didnt on most other sounds cards, even on the Rivera card this has 2 to 3 times better sound quality.
2. It 24 bit capable, and it suports up to 7.1 surround, can you say over kill!
3. It seem to be the best card for the price.
Thats it.
unless you want to get the X-fi card. with is a little better, but costs more x-fi is basicly the Audigy Zs2 with a few more studio and recording features.
Btw Dont get anything on it that says Value.
Here are the newegg.com links/reviews, and prices
Audigy Zs 2
Rivera
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but2002
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May Be Ridiculusly Expensive, But Ive seen it in action, THis baby has some fuckin power!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102191R
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102191R
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DDRPIP
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..shit.. 320 bucks?! well...itll last me a while so I'll have to save up till November (i get 750 then)
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Turgo is that the card you were talking about or the one in your post thats like $26?
cause thats a turtle Beach Rivera?cuase thats a huge difference...doesnt sound that good if it's only $26
Edit:
Turgo is that the card you were talking about or the one in your post thats like $26?
cause thats a turtle Beach Rivera?cuase thats a huge difference...doesnt sound that good if it's only $26
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I recently bought a Audigy 4:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102004
Even though it is 'only' the internal version, it is almost perfectly shielded against interference from other PC components. I have it connected to a Hifi system and the sound is awesome. Absolutely NO background noise is audible, no matter how high I dare turn the volume without any sounds playing. The digital-analog conversion keeps all the information intact, so your mp3s have never sounded crisper.
7.1 support, up to 192 kHz / 24 bit resolution, and (if you're a musician) ASIO with latencies below 3 ms.
It is, however quite poorly equipped with anything else than 3.5mm jack plug exits for the speakers, line in and mic in. No gameport, no MIDI in, no SPDIF connectors (neither TOSLINK nor RCA), no USB or FireWire. You get all those with the Pro version, which costs four times as much.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102004
Even though it is 'only' the internal version, it is almost perfectly shielded against interference from other PC components. I have it connected to a Hifi system and the sound is awesome. Absolutely NO background noise is audible, no matter how high I dare turn the volume without any sounds playing. The digital-analog conversion keeps all the information intact, so your mp3s have never sounded crisper.
7.1 support, up to 192 kHz / 24 bit resolution, and (if you're a musician
) ASIO with latencies below 3 ms.It is, however quite poorly equipped with anything else than 3.5mm jack plug exits for the speakers, line in and mic in. No gameport, no MIDI in, no SPDIF connectors (neither TOSLINK nor RCA), no USB or FireWire. You get all those with the Pro version, which costs four times as much.
legend of zelda
Just another Zelda fan
um, this may be a little late to post this, but if you've got the money, i'd go with something of the x-fi series. i got this sweet deal on newegg.com a while ago, x-fi fatal1ty for 199.99 no tax, free shipping. the deal's probably over by now, but it's a kick ass sound card. i get better frame rates in my pc games and i can put the sound setting on ultra high or whatever in them. it's got a lot of other cool features too, you should look at them at newegg or the creative website. hehe, actually i just looked on newegg, that deal is still there on the x-fi fatal1ty, it's $80 off the normal $280 price tag. i'd say it's probly better than the audigy 4, but i cant really say since i've never owned one. so, either the x-fi fatal1ty or platinum would be a good choice. i'd get the fatal1ty though since there's a good deal on it right now and it's only $20 more than the platinum. i'm pretty sure the only difference between the fatal1ty and platinum is the fatal1ty has the 64MB of x-ram, which not many games support right now though. dont get the xtreme music or the elite one though. the xtreme music one only comes with the software for music and stuff, so if your gonna play games with it, it's pretty much useless, and the elite just isnt worth the money cause you wont see any performance gains with it and it costs so much more. so yeah, go with the fatal1ty, or the platinum if you dont have the dough or the deal expires before you buy it. here's a link to the fatal1ty on sale at newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102189
