When did you last uprage your sound card?

[Zak33]

Seems as though the Sound Card is still bottom of the upgrade pile....but when did YOU last upgrade?

Was it with a motherboard, and was the onboard one, or are you still using a Live card from 5 years ago?

Intrigued

[dave87]

In my desktop rig, I'm using NVidias SoundStorm - which is actually rather good.
In my laptop, I'm using the inbuilt HD Audio from Intel, but looking to get either a USB or ExpressCard replacement, as it is nothing special, and only manages 2 channel audio

[chuckskull]

Last week. Went from Audigy 4 to X-fi. makes a difference in game, even more from the nvidia on board tat. The Audigy 4 was good for music, but in gaming it cant touch the x-fi.

Being able to crank it to 128 voices makes a load of difference in games like Company of heroes and BF2142.

[Pdog]

Tbh I haven't upgraded my sound card. I just use the onboard as it was always better than my generic Sound Blaster . Currently using a DFI - Lanparty UT. Sounds is pretty good.

[htid]

Seems as though the Sound Card is still bottom of the upgrade pile....but when did YOU last upgrade?

Was it with a motherboard, and was the onboard one, or are you still using a Live card from 5 years ago?

Intrigued

that's me exactly. Until christmas when i get an X-fi.

[magneticman]

got audigy 2 but pondering x-fi, do you know if creative will have a new range soon?

i only had my audigy for a while then x-fi came out...

[wmsteele]

Have had an Audigy 2 for ages..... cant see me upgrading anytime soon.

[Skillian]

I bought an X-Mystique about a year ago, and seeing as it's still the only card available (that I know of) that's capable of sending a Dolby Digital signal in games to my receiver, there's no option for me to upgrade at the moment.

[kempez]

Bought a Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty last week. Worth every penny

[Clunk]

I bought an X-Mystique about a year ago, and seeing as it's still the only card available (that I know of) that's capable of sending a Dolby Digital signal in games to my receiver, there's no option for me to upgrade at the moment.

What he said ^^ only i got the X-plosion, brilliant card and i avoided the X-fi as they didnt play nice with the DFI board i had at the time, although saying that, nothing played nice with that soundcard wise.

[kalniel]

Earlier this year, got an Audigy2 ZS.

[noTHINGface]

I got an Audigy 2 ZS early this year, Its ok, sounds good with the 7.1 setup I have. Still thinking about going to X-fi though.

[BlindMelon7]

Dont need to... mine kicks ass

However, this seems to be the perfect place to complain about the disapearance of the soundcard box in "My System". Is it just me or is it completely removed? If it is removed can we have it back please?

[shaithis]

Bought a Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty the week they launched due to a new system build at the time.

I wouldn't say I was completly overjoyed with the price but its done a very good job of providing very clear audio and having a lot of easily accessable connections, which was the reason for purchase.

Wished they would make some OSX drivers for it tho

[MadduckUK]

when i went from a Skt-A shuttle with Soundstorm to a A64 x2 with a CMI8768+ chipset soundcard (same as X-Mystique), as Skillian said theres very little choice if you want DD encoding. and none from creative because there far too busy making cards with "64MB of "X-RAM!!!"" to listen to what people need.

[Funkstar]

Only ever bought two sound cards in my time. The first was an AWE64 Gold. Still got it. It's an amazing looking card - dark brown PCB with dark copper traces and gold stenciling. Shame it is an ISA card. Can't remember the name of the other one, it was one of the first with a break out box. Had a huge thick cable linking it to the PCI card. Might dig it out and use it in my HTPC, my mothreboard doesn't have digital out for surround.