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Sound card ?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:07 am
by fox956
Hi.

Re: Sound card ?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:28 am
by Fozzer
I have always used the Sound Cards, Speakers, anything Audio, etc, from Creative Labs in all my various Computer installations

Re: Sound card ?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:48 am
by machineman9
Do you have a particular price limit in mind and do you mind where you buy it from?

To be honest I don't really think you will need an overly expensive sound card. That is mostly for people working with high quality sounds such as music editors and the such. Get something reasonable, but you shouldn't need to fork out a lot.


Paul posted some good ones, but basically anything aught to do. I wouldn't really spend more than

Re: Sound card ?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:31 pm
by NickN
the only reason a sound card is needed is if you require hardware sound encoding for AV production work

Modern motherboard 5.1/7.1 systems DO NOT impede performance like the onboard sound chips did a few years back

Re: Sound card ?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:55 pm
by Fozzer
My PCI Sound Card also has a Chip containing all the 128 General MIDI sounds and effects, and also serves the application for connecting MIDI musical instruments, MIDI In/Out, via its Game Port Socket.

So mine is useful for special applications.

Paul... 8-)...!

Re: Sound card ?

PostPosted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:01 am
by Brett_Henderson
the only reason a sound card is needed is if you require hardware sound encoding for AV production work

Modern motherboard 5.1/7.1 systems DO NOT impede performance like the onboard sound chips did a few years back




Yeah.. it's all digital anyway. Take the money you'd spend on the card, and put it toward even better hardware (audio amp/seperator and speakers).

Re: Sound card ?

PostPosted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:04 am
by beaky
the only reason a sound card is needed is if you require hardware sound encoding for AV production work

Modern motherboard 5.1/7.1 systems DO NOT impede performance like the onboard sound chips did a few years back





Yeah.. it's all digital anyway. Take the money you'd spend on the card, and put it toward even better hardware (audio amp/seperator and speakers).



Ditto... good speakers are a wise investment.