What is a good CHEAP sound card for under 35?

[MikeMike]

turtle beach is to expensive i thought it was less b4?

any good soundcards for under that the sound card i am replacing is a friends and it is atleast 4-5 years old on a p2 400 i think what would be a good sound card for it for cheap?

 

[Huma]

what features do you want?

 

[Snoop]

C-media very good card for cheap.

 

[jcmkk]

The two best sound cards in that price range are the Creative Live! 5.1 OEM and the Hercules Fortissmo II. I guess the real question is, do you like Creative or not? I think the Hercules uses the same audio chip as the Santa Cruz by the way.

 

[MikeMike]

Just the basics and fortissmo shoul be good enough where is it the cheapest or is pricewatch a good hope combined with ANANDTECHS RESELLER RATINGS?

 

[Jerboy]

<< Just the basics and fortissmo shoul be good enough where is it the cheapest or is pricewatch a good hope combined with ANANDTECHS RESELLER RATINGS? >>




I never used anything better than no-name Yamaha YMF724 based from local shops.

 

[billyjak]

Hercules Muse is a very good card, sounds sweet, you can get it for around 29.00
Iv'e installed 4 of these in computers I built for friends.

 

[jcmkk]

The Muse cards are half duplex. I don't know if the Muse XL cards are, but the original Muse sucked in my opinion. I promptly took mine back.