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Another soundcard question?

What kind of speakers / headphones are you using? It might not make sense to spend more on the soundcard unless you have a good output device.

If you're going to be gaming, that particular X-Fi isn't a good choice as it lacks the harware acceleration capabilities of the other versions.
 
If this comes back in stock at $50 with google checkout, this would be a cheap one to get for gaming.

Getting better output devices though be high on your to-do list if you do get an X-Fi. Without better devices, you're not going to get as much benefit from the new card.
 
Originally posted by: brave71heart
Thanks for the reply Soundman to be honest i have what i can afford at the moment.
I wanted a card with harware acceleration.
These are my current speakers.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...ctCategoryId=cat01055&id=1083710906282
Headphones

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...ctCategoryId=cat01056&id=1134699671497
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Save your dough. I'm not knocking your HP and speaker choices but you really wont benefit with a sound card upgrade. My 2 pennies.
 
Thanks for the input guys,I have used soundblaster cards in the past in Hp and 1 custom built machine and it was an improvement,but that was a couple years ago or so.
I was digging through my pc stuff and found an older soundblaster 5.1 live card i guess ill give it a whirl and see was it sounds like.
 
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