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Offlinemikeyboy
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New Sound card - SB Audigy?
    #5014614 - 12/04/05 05:00 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

Planning on upgrading my sound card

Currently have a SB Live! 5.1 but it's a lil hissy - tried new drivers etc still the same

Fancy one of these Audigy doo-dars

Are they worth it? I want minimal hiss!  :smile:


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Re: New Sound card - SB Audigy? [Re: mikeyboy]
    #5014700 - 12/04/05 05:21 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

They are really nice cards. You can get an Audigy 2 pretty cheap now too. Get one of those and you wont need a new sound card for many years.


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Re: New Sound card - SB Audigy? [Re: mikeyboy]
    #5014806 - 12/04/05 05:47 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

X-fi is supreme man...i got the cheap version (Xtrememusic) for like $114. Gave me a nice performance boost in games. Also cpu is only used 2% when I have winamp going. Its worth a little extra money.

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Re: New Sound card - SB Audigy? [Re: mikeyboy]
    #5014996 - 12/04/05 06:36 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

I have an Audigy2 ZS, it's pretty nice but I second the X-fi recommendation.

However, a hiss can come from a lot of things and with your relatively new card I kind of doubt it's the culprit. Have you done anything to eliminate electrical noise? Try putting it in your bottom PCI slot, or whichever one is furthest from your CPU and core logic chipset. Make sure you don't have any cables resting on it. Use the SPDIF out if you can, or else leave the output level up high in Windows and use the volume knob on your speakers.

Just a few suggestions before you shell out for a new card.

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Re: New Sound card - SB Audigy? [Re: mikeyboy]
    #5016905 - 12/05/05 08:46 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

Which is most important to you, gaming or listening to music? The Audigy will perform better in games, but it wont sound as nice, which probably won't be noticable unless you have decent speakers anyways.


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