Low latency ASIO PCI soundcard?

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I've decided to get back into writing music. After xmas I'm getting Cubase 7.5, a few soft synths and a midi keyboard.

I'm keeping it strictly in the box with no outboard synths/effects so just need a low latency PCI soundcard with good stable ASIO drivers under windows 8.1.

Anything worth having around the £200 or lower mark or should I bite the bullet and get an RME or Lynx?

Not that interested in USB or Firewire. Had them in the past and got a bit fed up of them losing sync and having poor hardware audio routings.

Not sure if a PCIe card will squeeze between my SLI GPUs.
 
Rossi~ said:
Never really bothered with PCI-E for recording interface. Always used USB, never had any problems. Currently have the Tascam US-1641

However, if i were going for a PCI-E solution, i'd go for this: http://www.thomann.de/gb/emu_1616m_pci_express.htm

Heard good things about it.
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Cheers, but that's not quite what I'm after. I don't need analogue ins/outs, just SPDIF to run to a DAC.

I could probably get marian trace pro and use the BNC AES/EBU if I dug out my Benchmark DAC1. Still quite expensive as I only need the basics of what the card can do.
 
An emu 0404 pci-e does spdif or aes/ebu via toslink or coax (phono) The 1212M adds ADAT support.
 
Kei said:
An emu 0404 pci-e does spdif or aes/ebu via toslink or coax (phono) The 1212M adds ADAT support.
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I was thinking of getting another 0404, I'd owned one before but remembered a press release a while back saying creative/emu weren't going to support windows 8 with their drivers. Not sure if they stuck to it?

[edit] just quick searched about gearslutz and it seems to be hit and miss getting it to work 64bit.
 
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