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)
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
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
VodkaOriginally Posted by Ephesians
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.
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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?
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
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.
Last edited by Funkstar; 12-01-2007 at 06:51 PM.
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