Looking for gaming sound card

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The onboard sound on my asus mobo sucks under xp. In vista, I was impressed, however, in XP, it has a lot of noise, so I disabled it, and used an old usb audigy with the standard xp drivers.

I'd like to get something a little better. I am looking for somethign that can do 5.1/7.1 surround sound, and something I can use the advanced audio settings in most games.

I haven't had an add-in sound card since my old audigy 2 back in the day.

I remember the creative drivers where rather bloated.

What are todays options?

I also plan on buying the turtle beach 5.1 headset to go with it.
 
the only option to use all the audio features in modern games in an x-fi. do NOT get the extremeudio as its a software codec only. get an extremegamer, extrememusic, or fatailty

also u would be better off with good quality headphones instead of the 5.1 jobs- the xfi does great surround sound effects with normal headphones
 
use the Daniel_K A2zs drivers, which I using now which working great. He also modded ALchemy to work with the Audigy/2zs which I also using. I dont have any problems with it or the modded drivers.

I'm Able to use my A2zs normally in vista til my pre-order comes. I know it works because I using it on my Audigy2zs right now. You dont need to buy a XFI now. Unless you just want to.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=25012 For the Daniel_K modded Audigy2 ZS drivers,Also the same drivers that has the 4gb ram fix

the link for Alchemy modded for the Audigy2zs is here http://files.filefront.com/Alchemy+Universal+10004rar/;8371783;/fileinfo.html

Then you will be all set
 
AdmiralFlameberg said:
use the Daniel_K A2zs drivers, which I using now which working great. He also modded ALchemy to work with the Audigy/2zs which I also using. I dont have any problems with it or the modded drivers.

I'm Able to use my A2zs normally in vista til my pre-order comes. I know it works because I using it on my Audigy2zs right now. You dont need to buy a XFI now. Unless you just want to.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=25012 For the Daniel_K modded Audigy2 ZS drivers,Also the same drivers that has the 4gb ram fix

the link for Alchemy modded for the Audigy2zs is here http://files.filefront.com/Alchemy+Universal+10004rar/;8371783;/fileinfo.html

Then you will be all set
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I'll try these with my USB audigy and see how it goes. If it works decent and does decent surround effects with the headphones I got, maybe I'l just opt for better headphones.
I didn't see any type of a compatibility chart for these drivers, I know my external audigy is hella old.
 
Well I tried to install the drivers, the one says its not a valid win32 app, the other says its not for my version of windows, and tells me to upgrade to vista.
 
I was googling and came upon a site that hosts the orig. creative install cd's, so I am going to see what I can get out of this usb card.

I'd rather have a sound hardware solution though.
 
sc0tty8 said:
Well I tried to install the drivers, the one says its not a valid win32 app, the other says its not for my version of windows, and tells me to upgrade to vista.
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Oops I forgot to tell you that they was for vista ,and I though you may have been on vista. sorry.
 
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