I need a nice new sound card with opitcal, and I'm willing to spend around £50ish. What do you think would be my best bet?
(I have inspire 5.1 digital 5700 speakers and decoder)
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I need a nice new sound card with opitcal, and I'm willing to spend around £50ish. What do you think would be my best bet?
(I have inspire 5.1 digital 5700 speakers and decoder)
fifty quid? oh nononono.. grab one of these
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/106539/rb/24408921291
http://image.ebuyer.com/UK/P0106539_...8_P0000000.jpg
info for it here:
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/?q=en/PCI/CMI8768_plus
review for card with same chipset
http://www.atruereview.com/bluegears/index.php
If its for playing music and getting 5.1 sound over optical, then your best bet is to try and find any of the Auzentech cards. X-Mystique, X-Plosion will do fine :)
Most of the Terratec sound cards have optical.
If your thinking of Vista, best to check around for driver support, especially if your going 64 bit.
It's for playing music really. With having the decoder will I notice a diffrence when going from the Dell onboard opitcal out to a sound card?
fair enough, thanks for the tip :)
i've not really used anything other than built in sound for years.
EDIT: nice looking cards, but they are a bit more than i was planning on spending. It doesn't help when they are the X-Mystique is $70 on the site, but the lowest on Froogle is £120!
they also list Overclockers as a re-seller, but they are not listen on the Overclockers site.