sound card

[Flipside]

HI,

I've been told that creative cards are superior to the cheaper cards, I just dont know if it's worth the extra bucks.
I just got my first set of 5.1 speakers and need a 6 channel sound card.

Any thoughts or comments will be appreciated.
Also, if you've got a second hand card lying around lemme know!

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

U can pickup the Sound Blaster LIVE! 24-Bit PCI 7.1 Sound Card for R250-R300... mayb less. I would say its worth the extra cash, support for the cheap cards just die. Saying that, i dunno much about the quality of the cards.. just that, back in the day, sound blaster was the stuff to have.

 

[Darth Garth]

Yep SB Live is better than most onboard sound except the NVidia Soundstorm in the nForce2 motherboards.

 

[Flipside]

where can I get it for that price? All the prices I've found was R300+

 

[Scooby_Doo]

u can go all the way up into the X-Fi line but the entry level is about R800... All the way up to R2500... But they are very nice cards.

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

http://www.digitalplanet.co.za/shop/product.asp?StockID=60407

If u order from DP, dont expect immediate delivery. Mayb email them and ask them to find out when they can deliver. I ordered a bunch of stuff from them on 1 May, still waiting for a hard drive. Mayb one of the dealers here can help u out

 

[Flipside]

Thing is I dont want to buy a R800 sound card for my R600 x-530's.

Found Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1, 24-bit for even cheaper, anyone
bought from simplicity.co.za?

Thanks for all the help, I'll look around a bit before I buy.

The cheap boards dont have onboard dolby decoding if I understand
correctly, how resource intensive is it decoding with software like powerDVD, or
have I got the cat by the tail?

thx again.

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

anyone
bought from simplicity.co.za?

Got a link?

EDIT:

http://www.simplicityonline.co.za/s...d=437&osCsid=f35fca7542879c015f08a123be43dcc6

Looking at the above, it seems as if they using the description for the 7.1 card