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Title: Sound Advice?
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 24, 2004, 10:35:46 AM

No, im not giving sound advice.. I need sound advice...

What is a good sound card? I have not bought a sound card since I bought a Diamond mx300 I think it was..
Was a good sound card with front and rear speaker outputs.. I feel it would probably still work but like win98, it is not supported anymore..

I have onboard sound at the moment.. AC'97 by Realtek and finding out it aint all I thought it to be. It sounds great.. Dont get my wrong.. But apparently I need more sound power for AH2.. The sound causes my p42.6c system to stutter..
I was looking at some kinda sound blaster card last night.. An Audigy 2 perhaps?? Was like $130 at Bestbuy.. I'm sure I will order it online though..

Title: Audigy 2
Post by: Eagler on June 24, 2004, 10:54:38 AM

I have one, blows away the onboard sound

Title: Sound Advice?
Post by: JB73 on June 24, 2004, 11:03:48 AM

SB audigy are great...

dont get the one with the front drive bay plate. its extra frivolous stuff you wont need (based on you not having a new card lately you dont do home recording)

Title: Sound Advice?
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 24, 2004, 11:35:28 AM

So, the Audigy 2 is recomended?

Title: Sound Advice?
Post by: Sandman on June 24, 2004, 02:24:28 PM

I've been using a Soundblaster Live for years. It's been great.

Title: Sound Advice?
Post by: capt. apathy on June 24, 2004, 02:41:37 PM

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Originally posted by JB73
SB audigy are great...

dont get the one with the front drive bay plate. its extra frivolous stuff you wont need (based on you not having a new card lately you dont do home recording)

couldn't disagree more on this.  I have the front plate for my audigy 1.    headphone, Mic, and line-in, fire-wire plugs for the cam-corder (just to name a few) on the front, save a lot of hassle and leave the kids no reason to mess with the wires on the back of the box.

plus I have a line that runs to my home theater receiver, just plug it into the headphone jack, and with my audigy remote, I have access to all 450 albums on my hard-drive playing through the surround sound.   you only need original Cd's for back-ups, and home made disc's for traveling.

all with no digging behind the desk.   the drive-bay cover and remote are a couple of my favorite audigy features.

I'm not sure what the difference is between audigy 1&2, I'm very happy with the audigy one and haven't begun to use all of the features it has.

Title: Sound Advice?
Post by: Charon on June 24, 2004, 03:52:20 PM

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So, the Audigy 2 is recomended?

Should give you better sound and even FPS increase. I have one I'm waiting to put in my game machine this wekend. (actually got it used for $40 at Computergeeks.com)

Charon