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Plz sugst Vista compatible sound card

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/plz-sugst-vista-compatible-sound-card.76330/

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piyush1989kap Original post #1
Dec 22, 2007 at 4:00 AM
My mobo dont have onboard sound.So i want to purchase vista compatible sound card.Plz advise me that sound card which is better than current generation motherboard onboard sound(intel 965,G33 etc).
spitfire
Dec 22, 2007 at 8:03 AM
piyush1989kap said:
My mobo dont have onboard sound.So i want to purchase vista compatible sound card.Plz advise me that sound card which is better than current generation motherboard onboard sound(intel 965,G33 etc).

Mobo without onboard sound ???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which mobo do you own dude ?

By the way whats ur budget for the card ?
If its around Rs 500 then go for Realtek prima which is based on ALC888

If its around 1-1.5k then go for Audigy value 7.1 24bit

if you can shell out over 2.5k then get an Audigy2ZS which is the cheapest card that has its own DSP

And if you have around 8-15k then look at the x-fi series..
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Dec 23, 2007 at 2:05 AM
I want a sound card which is at par or slighlty better with intel HD audio.?????????
Is audigy value better than intel???????
sidewinder
Dec 23, 2007 at 7:32 AM
yes..it is much better with full eax support and thats the cheapest you get from creative !
T
Dec 23, 2007 at 11:51 AM
I never used a seperate Audio Card lol.

Anyway I only use it for games and use headphones so a realtek HD Audio onboard is more than enough.