Sound card recommendations

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I have been experiencing continued problems in CS:S. Specifically I get a "sound loop" where CS slows down to a crawl and I hear the same sound over and over. I recently purchased a new video card and reformatted before I installed it (I was overdue anyway.)

I thought this would take care of my problems, but the 1st time I fired up CS after the clean install I got the same "sound loop."

Sooooo, I have concluded it must be due to some conflict between my onboard sound and CS. Therefore I have decided to pick up a new sound card. I don't want anything top of the line/ too fancy, just a good reliable sound card.

Anyone have any recommendations based on the problem above and the system specs below??? (including possible solutions for the sound loop if I am overlooking something basic....)

ASUS k8vse
AMD 64 3200
x800xl (agp)
1 GB pc 3200
onboard sound
windows xp home

Thanks.
 
That was a known issue with the source engine: http://www.blep.net/hl2stutter/

There was supposed to be a patch in the works early this year, but I have not heard anything since. I kind of assumed it was fixed via a steam patch / upate some time ago given it was supposedly in beta in feb 06, but who knows.
 
Chaintech AV-710 is the cheapest 7.1 card out there. it's an envy24 chip, and has optical out (if that's your bag)

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zero_vertical said:
Chaintech AV-710 is the cheapest 7.1 card out there. it's an envy24 chip, and has optical out (if that's your bag)

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the the 710 comprable to the audigy series in hardware processing?
 
I was surprised (pleasantly) to see no creative recommendations. Are the 2 recommendations above comprable as far as quality and features go??

Thanks FreiDOg. Now I'm really perturbed. I don't use my pc for anything besides work, fantasy football and CS, so I'm not going to be happy if I can't play CS anymore.
 
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