Sound For New Rig: Audigy 2 Zs Or ?

[Kaos]

Almost forgot about a key component of the new rig! Looking around at sound cards, it seems that the Audigy2 ZS OEM has great bang-for-the-buck, and is recommended by lots of folks here. Just thought I'd check and see if there's anything else in its price range I should consider. Basically $75-80 or less is my sound card budget. Anything that's priced higher than that, I can pretty much guarantee that I either won't use all the features it has, or that I won't even be able to hear the difference anyway. It'll just be driving a set of 4.1 Altec Lansing speakers.

 

 

Edit: Well, zzf had a rebate going on it, so for $40 after rebate, I had to pick it up. So kindly disregard this thread.

Edited December 5, 2005 by Kaos

[xPETEZx]

HDA Digital X-Mystigue 7.1 Gold

 

Cost me

[ady1989]

id go onboard if you just want tose speakers. i have an asus p4p800se, and i hafta say the onboard sound is excellent considering its onboard... i might get a hight end sound card soon only to go with a pair of soon to be high end headphones (maybe sens, or something) i wanna use for CS.

[romeo55]

id go onboard if you just want tose speakers. i have an asus p4p800se, and i hafta say the onboard sound is excellent considering its onboard... i might get a hight end sound card soon only to go with a pair of soon to be high end headphones (maybe sens, or something) i wanna use for CS.

590722[/snapback]

 

umm

 

#1, onboard does not have its own proccesing chip, just a codec, so it uses the cpu

 

#2, onboard=crap, Ac97 codec ust sounds extremly crappy on 5.1 speakers

 

#3, pretty much featureless

 

#4, No Eax, No 24bit,

 

#5, it sounds crappy

 

I'm sorry but the Audigy pretty much owns ALL onboard sound codecs...

 

Edit, Yeah the mystique is cool, but i'd still reccomend the Audigy 2 ZS. Its kinda buggy.

[TRex]

I use and recommend audigy 2 xz

All the settings did miracles for my cheap 4.1

Now upgraded to 5.1