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Sound card for Windows 7

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My old computer in my sig is getting an update. Basically a Socket Nforce 4 939 board most likely going to a socket 775 board. I am getting a processor free on loan so I am pretty much locked into 775 path. I realize it is a dead path, but oh well.

My question is concerning if I should even use my Audigy 2 ZS with Windows 7. Since Vista dropped DirectSound 3D support is there even a use for sound cards for mainstream/gaming?
 
uh, yeah.

My system at home uses my Audigy 2... I still think it has better output than onboard, even though onboard has gotten better, but I think if you have it, use it.
 
OpenAL does everything DirectSound3D did before.
And Alchemy let you play DirectSound 3D games under vista/win7

I tried gaming via onbard sound when I buildt my rig...for about 15 mins...the pain of bad sound was to much.
 
The Audigy2 ZS is a fine card for Windows 7. I'd still recommend installing the Audigy support pack drivers from Daniel_K instead of the regular creative drivers.

The only reason I'm still not using mine is because I ran out of PCI slots so I got a PCI-E X-Fi. It really was not much of an upgrade...
 
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