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Postby Mr. Rogers » Tue May 04, 2004 5:24 pm

do any of you guys know of a good cheap sound card? i dont need anything really fancy
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Postby TheMelodyMaker » Tue May 04, 2004 7:29 pm

I'd go with the Sound Blaster 16 PCI card. That's the cheapest one I know of. ^_^
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Postby shooraijin » Tue May 04, 2004 7:32 pm

Seconded. It's inexpensive and the sound quality is reasonable for the price.
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Postby LorentzForce » Wed May 05, 2004 2:21 am

SB16 is DEFINATELY good, especially if you're into DOS gaming. I need to find another one.

Or if you desperately need 3D sound of sort, get Hercules Muse XL. You should be able to find it at a relatively cheap price, of around USD$30. Certainly worth it for a surround sound-system card.

http://www.avault.com/hardware/getreview.asp?review=hercmusexl
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Postby glitch1501 » Wed May 05, 2004 3:37 am

if i were you, id get this, $23 dollars is relativly cheap
and its a soundblaster live 5.1

http://www.turboled.com/productdetails.aspx?productID=229

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Postby shooraijin » Wed May 05, 2004 8:37 am

> SB16 is DEFINATELY good, especially if you're into DOS gaming.

That's a very good point, too. I use an SB16 ISA (not PCI -- it really is that old) in my 486DX4/133 I use for DOS games. Despite the age of the system, though, the card was bought just eight months ago -- Creative still makes and sells ISA cards.
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Postby TheMelodyMaker » Wed May 05, 2004 8:15 pm

shooraijin wrote:That's a very good point, too. I use an SB16 ISA (not PCI -- it really is that old) in my 486DX4/133 I use for DOS games.

You think that's old? I use an SB16 ISA in my 486DX/33 for my DOS & older Windows games. (I guess that isn't much older.)

shooraijin wrote: Despite the age of the system, though, the card was bought just eight months ago -- Creative still makes and sells ISA cards.

I'm not surprised; Creative still has drivers and such on their site for download for even their oldest SB products. (Somehow I found that the driver update I downloaded for my SB16 ISA card didn't work as well as the original driver that was included with the card, though.)
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Postby ThaKladd » Thu May 06, 2004 2:27 am

SB 16 is very old isn't it(I had one in 1995)?? You get a SB Live for very little money nowdays. I've seen some down in about 30$

to an older computer you can buy a SB16 with ISA slot, but I recommend a plug and play compatible SB Live! to a newer(I say pentium 3+) computer.
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Postby shooraijin » Thu May 06, 2004 4:56 am

Right, but the point is that SB16 would have much better compatibility with old DOS games if you chose to play them.

Otherwise, for strict Windows use, SB Live! (or Hercules -- Lorentz makes a good point, those are good as well) should do fine.
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