Sound card advice!.. Sick of onboard

Smalltownboy · 27 Aug 2006 at 22:34

Can you lot advise me on a decent sound card from this site, compatible with a Asrock 939 dual sata (uli m1695).
As realtek sucks period!

FatRakoon · 28 Aug 2006 at 04:40

Anything.

I will say though, that I know of a couple of ASROCK Mobos that dont seem to want to play with Creative cards? God knows why, but there you go!

MeatLoaf · 28 Aug 2006 at 09:22

FatRakoon said:
Anything.

I will say though, that I know of a couple of ASROCK Mobos that dont seem to want to play with Creative cards? God knows why, but there you go!

Hmm, id do a quick google to see what the problems are before getting a creative card then. Depending on your budget id go for either an audigy4 or an OEM X-Fi

fish99 · 28 Aug 2006 at 10:45

You don't say what it's for - music, games, films etc... and you don't say what it's going to be outputting to - headphones, digital/analogue speakers, amp etc.

Biohazard · 28 Aug 2006 at 10:45

be a bit daft making a board that doesn't work with the planets most popular sound card

fish99 · 28 Aug 2006 at 11:13

Biohazard said:
be a bit daft making a board that doesn't work with the planets most popular sound card

Not quite yet-

http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html

Borden · 28 Aug 2006 at 11:43

fish99 said:
Not quite yet-

http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html

I think what he meant was:

Biohazard said:
be a bit daft making a board that doesn't work with the planets most popular dedicated sound card

fish99 · 28 Aug 2006 at 13:37

I was just poking a bit of fun TBH, but it's interesting to note that it's not even the most popular dedicated soundcard, far more audigy 2 and sblive's out there, as you would expect afterall they're much older and therefore have been on sale longer. I'm sure the X-Fi is very popular in terms of current sales though.

hohum · 28 Aug 2006 at 18:54

I have a XFI card on my Asrock Dual-SATA2, and it works fine. My old Audigy didn't work though, possibly because it had a firewire port on the card too... problem is that the PCI slots on this motherboard share IRQs with the USB controller, which can cause problems. In my case, after installing my Audigy, my mouse was disabled due to insufficient resources.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anything you can do about this as the IRQ settings appear to be hardcoded. Disabling devices makes no difference; onboard audio uses IRQ 18, USB ports use 20 through to 23. Disable the onboard audio and IRQ 18 is freed, but nothing will use it... when you install your card it will dump it on IRQ 20-23 regardless of what you do.

luminous · 29 Aug 2006 at 18:43

hohum said:
snip.

Weird that about irq sharing,maybe its why my asus premium doesn`t like my ol sblive and hard locks,but works fine in others.

InSanCen · 30 Aug 2006 at 06:51

FatRakoon said:
Anything.
I will say though, that I know of a couple of ASROCK Mobos that dont seem to want to play with Creative cards? God knows why, but there you go!

That'll be me FatRakoon is on about, (well, at least one of them)

Tried for months to get my SBLive! and LiveDrive! to work in my Asrock DUAL SATA2, but no go. Switched to my Neo2 Platinum and X2-4200, straight in, no problem's on the standard Windows Driver. Otherwise, the Board is great for the price. It's now been relegated to the GF's rig, with a SD3700 though, as I need the MIDI ports the LiveDrive offers.

@FatRakoon where's my RAM chubby?