Sound Card Advice?

[ij]

Lo ppl,

U lot tend to sometimes, on the odd occassion, hardly ever but now and again, on the off chance get things right :)

My system format and everything gone fine (didnt know windows could start that quick :D ). All hardware fine except my soundcard. Now i dont think i ever got drivers for this, its an aureal summit or other. Never really worked too well anyway tbh so just gonna change it.

I want a cheapish but cheerful card. If it does MP3's, CD's, sounds from games i'm happy :) I only have two speakers, but may adda nother two, but only looking for quad support. I'm thinking arounf 30-40 pounds.

Any suggestions? (Rather it was widely available, dont want to have to wait 30 days for it to come in or anything :) )

thanks ppl
IJ

[Nerfie]

m8y wot you need is not what I got cos I got a platinum :D and im dead chuffed with it...
but what you need is a

Creative Labs Sound Blaster 1024 Player OEM £42.30
includes VAT

or the slightly better one ----->

Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! Player 5.1 OEM
Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound £57.58
Inc VAT.

or mine :E -------->
Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum £146.88

heheheh :)

[devilin]

sound advice that

[Macwedd]

Sound Blaster Live Value

can't remember exactly how much tho but it's a nice card

[Fallout]

What about the new one from Videologic, the Sonic Fury or something like that. It's new, in it's early driver set but apparently as good as the Sound Blaster. About time Creative labs had some competition, the Microsoft of the sound market that they are.

[Phillie Time]

I've got a sonicvortex2 and it's sweet :)

[Nerfie]

yup must mention sonic fury cards Etc..... cos they use the A3d while all creative cards use EAX ... ONLY.... so I dont actually think there IS that much diff....? but anyways I mean for solid hardware soundcard *WITH* a livedriveII Infrared for £55 :) Bargain m8y :) plus it is totally hardware I believe, only uses emulation on dos games

[ij]

i shall be purchasing tomorrow ;)

tyvm all (woooo, first message on formatted comp)

:)

IJ

[GibsonXXI]

I have the original Live! Platinum with the Live Drive II.

only difference is it doesn't properly support 5.1 surround, but apart from that it's a spiffing card.

Incidentally the Live! 1024 and the Platinum are idetical cards (i have both) the only difference is the 1024 has a lesser software bundle and none of the extra bits like the digital DIN backplate or the Live! drive.

Regards,

[Fallout]

You forgot to mention the £100+ difference too.

[Richtofen]

I got the Live Platinum free, well in payment for ripping it out and putting in a better one to a m8s brand spanking(2hour old) PIII 1000 :laugh:

[ij]

35 quid from a local shop,

well happy, thanks all :)

IJ

[AeroBob]

Personally, I have a PIII 733, 246mb RAM, 16 gig hard drive space, GeForce 2 3D Accelerator Card, 52x CD ROM, CD Writer, and...

A four year old Creative Labs Soundblaster 16, the only proper soundcard I've ever got. Odd, that...