Had a power failure due to the snow here, when I turned my PC back on no sound was playing through the speakers anymore. The speakers themselves (Klipsch ProMedia 2.1) are working fine when I plugged them into the phone, and when I tried to output through the very very very horrible quality built in speakers in my HDMI monitor that worked... if you can call that mess working, but it's not outputting audio from the audio jack anymore.
I need my audio working soon, so instead of spending days trying to see if the audio hardware is indeed fried somehow or if something else happened, I am just going to quickly order a USB soundcard/DAC and use that, at least until I can fix this (Or just keep the USB card as it's likely going to be better quality).
Since the card is only temporary as this system itself is a temporary system until I can get my main PC which has a Sound BlasterX AE-5 I'm not looking for some high-end DAC that could be expensive. I just want something temporary for now that would be at least on par if not better than the motherboard audio from this old workstation. I see prices vary wildly from ones as suspiciously cheap as $10 all the way up to $200 and likely higher if I kept looking.
Another problem I have though... just how much USB power do these devices use? I already have a lot of the USB ports on this system used up, and I am worried a higher-draw device will take too much power. Do any of them have an option of being powered externally? Or am I looking way too much into this?
Any recommendations for what I am looking for? Preferably on the cheaper side if it's a decent one. Would love one that's $30 or less but if it's really worth it I can see doing one that's around $50, not looking to go into the triple digits.
Specs:
Dell Precision T3610
CPU - Xeon E5-2667 v2
Motherboard: DELL 09M8Y8
RAM: DDR3 ECC 32GBX4
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GT 720
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Drives: 250GB SSD, 1TB SSD, 2TB HDD
PSU: 675W (Proprietary)
USB devices: Cm Storm Trigger Keyboard, Genesys Logic USB V2.0 4-Port Hub(Part of the keyboard), SteelSeries Rival 310 Mouse, HD Pro Webcam C920, NVIDIA stereo controller, Xbox360 Controller, EPSON Perfection 2400 Scanner
I need my audio working soon, so instead of spending days trying to see if the audio hardware is indeed fried somehow or if something else happened, I am just going to quickly order a USB soundcard/DAC and use that, at least until I can fix this (Or just keep the USB card as it's likely going to be better quality).
Since the card is only temporary as this system itself is a temporary system until I can get my main PC which has a Sound BlasterX AE-5 I'm not looking for some high-end DAC that could be expensive. I just want something temporary for now that would be at least on par if not better than the motherboard audio from this old workstation. I see prices vary wildly from ones as suspiciously cheap as $10 all the way up to $200 and likely higher if I kept looking.
Another problem I have though... just how much USB power do these devices use? I already have a lot of the USB ports on this system used up, and I am worried a higher-draw device will take too much power. Do any of them have an option of being powered externally? Or am I looking way too much into this?
Any recommendations for what I am looking for? Preferably on the cheaper side if it's a decent one. Would love one that's $30 or less but if it's really worth it I can see doing one that's around $50, not looking to go into the triple digits.
Specs:
Dell Precision T3610
CPU - Xeon E5-2667 v2
Motherboard: DELL 09M8Y8
RAM: DDR3 ECC 32GBX4
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GT 720
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Drives: 250GB SSD, 1TB SSD, 2TB HDD
PSU: 675W (Proprietary)
USB devices: Cm Storm Trigger Keyboard, Genesys Logic USB V2.0 4-Port Hub(Part of the keyboard), SteelSeries Rival 310 Mouse, HD Pro Webcam C920, NVIDIA stereo controller, Xbox360 Controller, EPSON Perfection 2400 Scanner
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