Confused about PCI

Rubbish, it will work fine. As long as your motherboard has PCI slots of course :) They were probably just trying to sell you a new card to be honest.
 
Yeah definately a lot of trollop! Most if not all motherboards on the market have PCI slots on them. Ignore them as Trigger says they probably just wanted you to spend money on something in their store!
 
I thought most boards come with sound built in these days and wouldn't that be better than using a 5yr old card?
 
Sel said:
I thought most boards come with sound built in these days and wouldn't that be better than using a 5yr old card?
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May have extra inputs and whatnot though such as MIDI etc. Although I know next to nothing about sound cards so I could well be wrong :o
 
Assuming there are XP drivers (or even Vista drivers). The physical card is supported - but there might be an argument that it can't be used in a modern OS system.
 
On my old NF7 board the onboard sound actually went dodgy I could hear consistent pulses coming from my speakers. Good thing I had the Sound Blaster 128 PCI in the drawer to plug in :)
 
artaxerxes said:
Assuming there are XP drivers (or even Vista drivers). The physical card is supported - but there might be an argument that it can't be used in a modern OS system.
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XP's driver base for things like this is surprisingly good though and anyway, XP itself is nearly 6 years old now so I would expect there to be an XP driver somewhere for it :)
 
it will be fine as long as you got drivers but these days the on board sound is very good even better then lot of high end cards u can buy
 
Thinking back I did have some awfull sounds at first with XP and had to use an SB128 myself but my last two motherboards have been ok for sound.

Even now people keep telling me I need a better sound card but I can only use three speakers and most of the time I have to use Headphones so whats the point
 
Woooahhhh easy chaps...!!!

It's a M-Audio Delta 24/96.. that's an Audio Interface, yeah it comes with analog ins / outs, MIDI & SPDIF (digital) I/O. They still make the v same card years later.. it's just good at what it does, and sounds good to boot..
hence me goin to a music shop (can't remember if i mentioned that!)

It uses it's own ASIO drivers btw

I tend to use the onboard for system sounds if I get me set up right

seems it's too early for PCI express audio interfaces.. not cheap at all, and not many of em either yet.. us musos can be a fickle bunch i spose.

ta all.. :)
 
Isn't there both 5v PCI and 3.3v PCI standards?

I'm not sure if they both have the same shape socket, the older ones are before my time.....
 
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