Correct Sound Card for My Needs

Hello everyone,

I just had a wonderful new computer built for me and I am thrilled
with all parts except the onboard sound. Seems I need an actual sound
card to do the movie making/editing I wish to do. In the past, I
would have just gone out and picked up a $25 card. But since this is
my mega computer, I want something really nice that will work well.

My specs are this:

Motherboard - MSI P6N SLI-FI (MS7350-010) nVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
(that's what the book says!)
Graphics Card - nVidia 8800 GTS
Processors - Intel Dual Core 2.66Ghz
Onboard Sound - Realtek High Definition Audio.
Speakers - Logitech 2.1 (can't find the book for them right now - will
probably buy new ones)

This computer is used for gaming and as I said above, movie making/
machinima and of course listening to music and watching movies and
video. Does anyone have suggestions? And if you need more info, I
can try to get it to you. Much thanks in advance!

Smooch

Smooch wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just had a wonderful new computer built for me and I am thrilled
> with all parts except the onboard sound. Seems I need an actual sound
> card to do the movie making/editing I wish to do. In the past, I
> would have just gone out and picked up a $25 card. But since this is
> my mega computer, I want something really nice that will work well.
>
> My specs are this:
>
> Motherboard - MSI P6N SLI-FI (MS7350-010) nVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
> (that's what the book says!)
> Graphics Card - nVidia 8800 GTS
> Processors - Intel Dual Core 2.66Ghz
> Onboard Sound - Realtek High Definition Audio.
> Speakers - Logitech 2.1 (can't find the book for them right now - will
> probably buy new ones)
>
> This computer is used for gaming and as I said above, movie making/
> machinima and of course listening to music and watching movies and
> video. Does anyone have suggestions? And if you need more info, I
> can try to get it to you. Much thanks in advance!
>
> Smooch
>

There are 71 sound devices listed here. Each one has customer reviews. You
don't have to buy it here, but with the reviews, you'll get a good idea
if any of these meet your requirements. An amazing number of these
get the thumbs down from customers, because of driver issues.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010360057...bcatego

As for PCI Express versus PCI sound cards, Asus has a Xonar product
on the way, that has a PCI Express x1 connector. But until someone reviews
it, we won't know just how bad the Asus driver and game support is.
I wouldn't expect them to fix problems that fast, because they
aren't really an audio company.

Paul