Sound Card Noob Question

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flegg

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Are there half-decent sound cards that can be placed in PCI-E x16 slots?

The only reason I haven't bought a UD3P mobo yet is I need a slot for a wireless card and a slot for the sound card. After I place my cooling system I will only have one PCI slot left as well as the other PCI-E slot that is meant(?) for crossfire.
 
I stand corrected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

PCIe slots come in a variety of physically different sizes referred to by the maximum lane count they support. Common sizes are x1, x4, x8, x16 . A PCIe card will fit into a slot of its size or bigger, but not into a smaller PCIe slot.
 
Confirmed - I had a machine with 3 PCI-E x 16 (actually 2 of them were x8's ) was one of the x48 or x56 intel extreme boards. 2 PCI-e x1 and 1 PCI-e x4. I had a video card, and 5 Hauppauge 1800 hd tv tuners in that thing. Worked wonders. All 5 tuners worked simultaneously without a hitch.
 
Creative make a pretty good PCI-e soundcard now, a version of the X-Fi Titanium.
Dont get the old PCI-e X-Fi Xtreme audio card (no hardware acceleration).
 
bobdole369 said:
Confirmed - I had a machine with 3 PCI-E x 16 (actually 2 of them were x8's ) was one of the x48 or x56 intel extreme boards. 2 PCI-e x1 and 1 PCI-e x4. I had a video card, and 5 Hauppauge 1800 hd tv tuners in that thing. Worked wonders. All 5 tuners worked simultaneously without a hitch.
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Just curious, why would you need 5 tv tuners?
 
So you can record multiple TV show's at the same time.
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This.

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