Soundcards

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Chaintech AV-710

-basically, one of the best non-Creative soundcards you can buy

Links:

http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=654
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php? ... ge=5&pp=15
http://htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?s= ... topic=3616
http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75655


EDIT:

Note that Sensaura is now owned by Creative. Thus, if you want a soundcard that doesn't make Creative any revenue........bust out your old Turtle Santa Cruz


EDIT2:
Firmware flashing guides:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lof ... 24367.html

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

The first PCI soundcard to do hardware Dolby Digital encoding (ala Soundstorm):

http://www.bluegears.com/soundcard_xmystique.html

Pretty bad@$$.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Turtle Beach has one now:

http://techgage.com/review.php?id=3708

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Guide to mod your Audigy/2/4 to an X-fi:

http://www.overclock.net/sound-cards-co ... o-x-7.html



Creative Daniel's way:

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs ... .id=135363
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/2009/01/2 ... for-wind-7

As an aside, the PCI Express X-Fi Xtreme Audio is not a true X-Fi which is why it's cheaper. It's just an Audigy with specialized drivers. Thus, one can deduce that the mod works.

[[Fallen]Thumperup]

Whats a sound .... Card.