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I'm looking for recommendations people have for a good/great Sound Card:
- Price vs Quality
- Configuration software
- Compatibility with various operating systems
- How it should connect: Externally, PCI, PCI-E, etc...
With this question I'm attempting to discover if there is something out there people are "raving about", and would strongly recommend and why.
There are other questions talking about aspects of the system to "skimp on", if there's even a need for a separate sound card and discussions on the more important components of a motherboard, where the quality of the Sound Card is outlined as "pretty good on expensive motherboards"
This card uses software mixing instead of hardware mixing, which has a small performance penalty (not necessarily important), but means you have to have software mixing working in Linux. The old Sound Blaster Live 5.1 from the 90s is actually a better card than this one. – Neil – 2010-10-14T19:42:43.170