Re: OT: PC sound cards?

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:53:57 +0000, wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Andy Hewitt) wrote:

(sorry this is a bit long, I was trying to get some Mac elements into
it!)

You'd be better off using a Mini for this, you know! Not that even
slow G4 ones are cheap or readily available, but the idea's good. 35W
for a 1.5GHz G4, I've forgotten what the Intel ones suck up. And sleep
works reliably, to bring it down to about half a watt.

I'd love a Mini instead for sure, but I don't think even selling the PC
would recover enough, the Minis seem to sell for silly money at the
moment.

I'm looking at replacement sound cards, but my budget is very tight at
the moment.

Have you tried switching the card into different PCI sockets? It's
possible there's some interaction with the local magnetic fields
causing excess scruff in the sound. Note that Windows will almost
certainly get upset if you do this, and reinstall the driver.

Not an option, it's a RealTek onboard system.

There seems to be a bit of a minefield with these, but I
don't want to be buying something that's no better, or spending loads on
a 7.1ch DTS super dooper cinema card either.

My current setup is to simply send the signal to my Yamaha AV amp, so I
only really need a good quality 2ch signal. I don't want any fancy audio
editing either, I can use my G5 for that. Any suggestions for a
reasonably priced card, that'll sound better than the OB one?

Oh yes, it'd be handy to have it work with Linux too - I have Ubuntu
installed on this too.

Get a bottom-end Creative Live! card for about a tenner, if you can
find one (eg ebay item 180215025741). Otherwise any sub-£10 5.1 card
will be fine, there's only about two generic chipsets in use and Linux
supports them.

Righto, cheers. Any point in trying to get better than a 16bit
processor? As it's only going to be feeding from iTunes most of the
time, and I'm not big on gaming.

I just had a rummage through my bits boxes and don't have any kicking
around, which is a shame. Unless you've got an ISA slot in the PC, in
which case I've a lovely Gravis Ultrasound...

No, just PCI slots, it doesn't even have AGP - the GeForce is a PCI
card.

Mind you this was a very cheap PC at the time, I know Emily wasn't going
to stick with it for long, so I just got the cheapest one I could find.
Posted on another group, I went for a Fujitsu Celeron 2.8GHz, bunged
some RAM in, and the GeForce, and it was up and running for a little
over £200.

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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