sound card selection

[kahchye]

Yo guys, i'm havin a Altec Lensing ATP 4 speaker set and using on board sound card. I would like to get a new soundcard apart from audigy (too expensive), mainly used for gaming and listenin to mp3. No recordin/sound editing. What do you guys recommend? thanks man!

 

[lwj81]

Santa Cruz.If thats still too expensive,you can go with one of the Hercules cards like the Muse or the Fortissimo.

 

[Zalkryn]

Hercules Digifire has 7.1 capability and is around $75.

Pentium 4 2g
Asus P4T-E MB
512 PC800 Rambus
Gforce 4 4200 ti 64mb
Linksys 10/100 network card
SB Live 5.1

 

[r2k]

Hercules Fortissimo III (should be around $45).
Even cheaper: Hercules Muse 5.1 DVD (around $30 IIRC).

 

[kinney]

at newegg.com the audigy oem (which is use) is $50..
audigy 2 with soldier of fortune 2 and hitman 2 (full versions) is only $100..

i would get one of those two unless you have some holdover grudge against creative.

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Athlon 1700+, Epox 8RDA (NForce2), Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 80GB 8MB cache, 2x256mb Crucial PC2100 in Dual DDR, Geforce 3, Audigy, Z560s, MX500

 

[skligmund]

Yeah, just don't but CREATIVE, unless you want poor quality and driver/hardware/OS/game issues.

My Duron 1300 eats P4's for dinner. Oh, the Celerons make a nice snack too.

 

[kinney]

You must be living in the past because my audigy has none of the above issues.

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Athlon 1700+, Epox 8RDA (NForce2), Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 80GB 8MB cache, 2x256mb Crucial PC2100 in Dual DDR, Geforce 3, Audigy, Z560s, MX500