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| Thread ID: 52260 | 2004-12-15 23:48:00 | Integrated Sound AC97 issue | somebody (208) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 303172 | 2004-12-16 03:06:00 | The pop would have been the sound card dying. | george12 (7) | ||
| 303173 | 2004-12-16 03:27:00 | yeah looks like the sound card has killed itself - get a new one - onboards arnt that good anyway go you should consider it an invesment | noone (22) | ||
| 303174 | 2004-12-16 03:58:00 | cheers guys - time to go soundcard hunting... | somebody (208) | ||
| 303175 | 2004-12-16 07:59:00 | This onboard sound card seems to be very erratic. Had tried to install the driver but it just failed to work. After given up and went to install some other application program and upon re-booting, it sprung into live unexpectedly. It is really a funny soundcard :confused: | bk T (215) | ||
| 303176 | 2004-12-16 08:19:00 | Most onboard soundcards share PCI bandwidth and IRQ resources with the 1st PCI slot. Try moving the device you may have here to another slot and see if that makes any difference. | b1naryb0y (3) | ||
| 303177 | 2004-12-16 09:59:00 | for a sound card go creative they are by far the best | noone (22) | ||
| 303178 | 2004-12-16 18:20:00 | I have a SBLive! in the other PC and it's great. | somebody (208) | ||
| 303179 | 2004-12-16 20:43:00 | you can get the basic 5.1 channel sound card from creative for around $70 then there are all there external boxes that will bring the total to over $300 - most of the time un nessecary | noone (22) | ||
| 303180 | 2004-12-16 21:22:00 | It really depends on what sort of sound quality you want or need . The Creatives are excellent and Lives should be very inexpensive now - if you just want basic sound reproduction just get the cheapest card you can find (Creative or otherwise) because any PCI sound card will do if your not worried about sound quality and almost any PCI sound card will sound better than your AC97 . If your a gamer or just like good quality sound go for a Creative - I recommend the Audigy DE - I think it's the cheapest of the Audigy range but will do anything you require of it and the next step up is the Audigy2 (which includes onboard DTS decoding) - basically anything over the basic Audigy2 card is overkill - sure all the extra external parts are nice to look at but would you ever use them (with the exception possibly being the remote)? |
HadO (796) | ||
| 303181 | 2004-12-18 23:20:00 | Cheers HadO. I think I'll grab a cheap SBLive!, as I like good sound quality, yet I'm not a gamer so there isn't point splashing out in a better card. |
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