Bang for your buck Soundcard

UltraDad

UltraDad

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Hello again i am back for some more advice :p

Been through all the threads, checked out reviews on all cards available on OCUK and even put down paper with sound cards on, blindfolded a sheep and let him pick something but he went the wrong way :D

So i have come back here to ask you wonderful forum people, what do you think is the best value for money sound card at the moment :confused:

Was easy building my system, grahics card was no problem but realy stuck with the sound card

As you can see in my sig i like a lot for little cash :D Using onboard sound so looking for a upgrade and some head phones, got £100 to work with ;)

Thanks for any help, info and combintions :)
 
Thanks a lot for answering my thread ;)

I am mainly doing games, videos and stuff for my daughters ipod:p Up most nights due to ill health so don't want to wake anyone up :D

As no one had got back to me i tried looking at a few different combinations of cards and headphones and usualy was around 80-90 quid so i just went for the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 Sound Card with Free Fatal1ty Headset :D and hope it plays nice :p

Will be with me in the morning as long as Intercity dont get lost :)

ps i did like the look of the xonar sound card
 
I've had the X-FI Xtreme Music for a few months, I've been using Vista Home Premium 64 since the start of the year, not had one problem with my soundcard. I'm using them with a set of Sennheiser HD555's which are fantastic for the price, mine were 55 quid from a certain auction site.
 
Thanks DQN for the info :cool:

A lot of ppl on the forum have said how good those headphones are, gonna ask for them for Fathers Day present i think :D
 
I had the Extreme music soundcard and it was very good. I used it with the medusas 5.1 and tbh, you can't go wrong.

I recently had problems with the Xfi drivers. Every time i tried to install i got a blue screen, so I thought FK it and got a razer setup. The razer soundcard is awesome, however for £50 the extreme music soundcard is very good.

I'm not sure what headset / speakers you will be using, but I'd opt for good quality. Its with good quality speakers / headset that you will notice the big difference between soundcards ;)

cheers
 
Got my stuff today, used the drivers from creative website and put the other bits on from the disk, sounds dam good tbh :D and its playing nice no problems :cool:

What surprised me the most is the temp drop on the DS4 chipset when i switched off the onboard sound, went from 50 down to 44 :eek:, big drop as i though it was the cooling, even bought new fans a few weeks ago and then put it down to the motherboard being a bit warm

Thanks to everyone for suggestions and stuff ;)
 
I'd say avoid the creative cards, to many people have problems with them (including myself). They are cheaper, but you get what you pay for.
 
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