Which soundcard?

louandgra · 12 Oct 2007 at 11:34

Ive got Vista 64 and 4gb Ram. Xmas is coming up and going to get the missus to but me a soundcard and those Logitech 5.1 speakers £200 odd quid ones.

What soundcard do I get? £100 - £200

Ive heard loads of pproblems about the Creative card with Vista 64?

Whats the alternative? I would rather not have to mess about with drivers and stuff.

humax · 12 Oct 2007 at 15:14

i just got this. and im very happy with it it

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-000-AZ

james.miller · 12 Oct 2007 at 15:22

if you want gaming, any of the x-fi's would do really. i dont really see the point of the prelude

jbloggs · 12 Oct 2007 at 15:30

james.miller said:
if you want gaming, any of the x-fi's would do really.....

Without a doubt, if you do a lot of gaming, something from the X-Fi's range is what you want to look at...possibly the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer......

just Scott · 12 Oct 2007 at 16:01

If you want sound quality, get an external DAC. EMU 0404 USB is very good (probably better than most sound cards) for £130. Comes with lots of features and a decent headphone amp.

louandgra · 12 Oct 2007 at 18:22

I thought there was loads of issues with Creative sound ccards and Vista 64 with 4 gb of ram?

Kobrakai · 12 Oct 2007 at 18:24

louandgra said:
I thought there was loads of issues with Creative sound ccards and Vista 64 with 4 gb of ram?

No longer a problem since last weeks driver release.

Tute · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:13

Apparantly the Xtreme Music is better than the Xtreme Gamer.

Something to do with the capacitors on them?

Kyo · 16 Oct 2007 at 12:49

Tute said:
Apparantly the Xtreme Music is better than the Xtreme Gamer.

Something to do with the capacitors on them?

Seeing how I just happen to be looking for a sound card which is really better for gaming?

The price of a xtreme gamer and a xtreme music are around the same price and many have said the gamer is better however tute comment is interesting, would u really go for music despite it being an older card. It classed as 5.1 instead of 7.1 is that true??

james.miller · 16 Oct 2007 at 14:40

whoever told you the gamer was better is talking shash mate. they are both the same design, except the music uses better components and you can generally plug a lot more in to it.

Kyo · 16 Oct 2007 at 15:00

Lo James - long time no see

o0ol0o0o0o so if i had a choice better to go for the music then for gaming

. The physical card for gaming is dinky (small) compared to the music card which is huge in comparison.

Only thing i really hate about creative is that they have a tenancy to forget past customers and shelf discontinued and EOL products. Kinda worried that if i get the music card, in the distant future they would then eventually stop making drivers/software/support for it and leave u out in the lurch, like they done with my current ancient 5.1 card which is doing fine as i got a 2.1 setup