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Sound Cards

PostPosted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:06 pm
by Franky_4_Fingers
Hi All:
I was thinking of replacing my old and outdated music PC with a new but cheap PC. The sound card is a Sounblaster Live Platinum of which I am very fond of and i'd like to put it in a new but cheap rig for itunes etc.
My question is, can i put the SC in a PC that has a built in SC in the motherboard and do i need to bypass the built in SC somehow?

Re: Sound Cards

PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:10 am
by waspiflab
yes you can

Re: Sound Cards

PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:04 am
by Franky_4_Fingers
Thanks for the help, it sounds like a breeze. I hope i don't have to go into bios, i don't really know what i'm doing in there.

Re: Sound Cards

PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:27 am
by machineman9
It should just use it by default. If not, you may just have to go into the sound mixer on your computer and just select that sound card as the output device.

But usually when a piece of hardware knows it is obsolete, it hides in the corner.

Re: Sound Cards

PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:47 am
by Fozzer
I still use my lovely old Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024 Card, with its Emu Voice/Effects Chip, (ideal for MIDI applications), but, being an ancient Card, its Drivers were designed for Win '98, so with Alrot's help, managed to find some Drivers for Win XP Pro SP2.... :)...!

Paul.... :)...!