Sound Card to help play WMV-HD

[Kenjix]

I just bought a shuttlle SN95G5v3 an amd 3200+ 939 with 1GB Dual channel Corsair PC3200 and a Nvidia 6800 (not unlocked yet).

So far everything works very well and I couldn't be please more with the unit. Although since I'm using Media Center XP I'm trying to make sure playback of WMV-HD videos playback well. I know that the requirements say 2.4 or 3.0GHz processor is optimal but I'm able to play all the videos from thier website without issue. The problem comes when I'm trying to play the Dead or alive HD trailer for Xbox 360, since I'm having problems playing it I'm using this as my final video test. For some reason I can get the video to play smoothly if I play it with high quality mode turned off but I can't get the sound to stay synched.

I am currently using onboard sound and was wondering if getting a sound card would improve performance and drop cpu usage so that this video could play with no issues.

Also if so what sound card would be best ?

 

[Megamixman]

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS is the ideal platform for Windows Media 9 content including full 24-bit/96kHz audio in discrete 5.1 surround sound.

That is from the sound blaster site. How true it is, I don't know since I dont know much about sound cards, but that should give you a lead you can work on.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Megamixman

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS is the ideal platform for Windows Media 9 content including full 24-bit/96kHz audio in discrete 5.1 surround sound.

That is from the sound blaster site. How true it is, I don't know since I dont know much about sound cards, but that should give you a lead you can work on.

Hardware audio acceleration = you're set