J
JURB6006
- Jan 1, 1970
- 0
Hi;
Many of you know my PC isn't that great, but it must function just a little
longer and when I build another, it would be nice to have a backup. Heck the
thing is good enough to get on DSL and burn disks at least.
Anyway I had another soundcard take a crap today. I've checked all cables etc.,
and it's putting out noise in the left and very very low audio. It's the card
itself.
What I need is a high quality ISA soundcard. I have no PCI slots left. I've had
cheap ones and found their S/N ratio unacceptable, you see my entire stereo
runs off the PC. I haven't touched a CD that I didn't burn in months, and the
thing won't skip no matter how loud you turn it. It will skip due to software
issues, like being on a primary connection to P2P, or loading a complex
webpage. Typoing, printing, scanning and usually even online it's OK.
So I've gone through two SB cards so far and I'm getting sick of it. First of
all, with the power it's hooked up to, I need a really good S/N ratio, 110dB
would be nice, but I think 90 will do. Even less but I wouldn't want to go less
than say 75.
Now these things should be cheap with ISA being phased out, what I'm looking
for is a really good (audio) quality card, and, if there is a difference in
processor resources used by the card like a winmodem vs. a hardware modem, I
would like the latter.
Any recommendations ?
Thanks for your time.
JURB
Many of you know my PC isn't that great, but it must function just a little
longer and when I build another, it would be nice to have a backup. Heck the
thing is good enough to get on DSL and burn disks at least.
Anyway I had another soundcard take a crap today. I've checked all cables etc.,
and it's putting out noise in the left and very very low audio. It's the card
itself.
What I need is a high quality ISA soundcard. I have no PCI slots left. I've had
cheap ones and found their S/N ratio unacceptable, you see my entire stereo
runs off the PC. I haven't touched a CD that I didn't burn in months, and the
thing won't skip no matter how loud you turn it. It will skip due to software
issues, like being on a primary connection to P2P, or loading a complex
webpage. Typoing, printing, scanning and usually even online it's OK.
So I've gone through two SB cards so far and I'm getting sick of it. First of
all, with the power it's hooked up to, I need a really good S/N ratio, 110dB
would be nice, but I think 90 will do. Even less but I wouldn't want to go less
than say 75.
Now these things should be cheap with ISA being phased out, what I'm looking
for is a really good (audio) quality card, and, if there is a difference in
processor resources used by the card like a winmodem vs. a hardware modem, I
would like the latter.
Any recommendations ?
Thanks for your time.
JURB