damonrpayne Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 I'm building a new gaming computer (finally). What's the hot sound card for multichannel gaming right now? I was looking at the latest Audigy 2 ZS gamer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor.Ham.Slap Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 Word on the street is that the Nvidia SoundStorm is great for gaming. It is the only sound card on the market right now that does on the fly DD 5.1 encoding. You can only get this as an on-board audio option, but there are a lot of great boards that carry it (the Abit NF-7s being the one I have put in a few machines). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted December 24, 2004 Author Share Posted December 24, 2004 Already got the new motherboard, was looking for a PCI card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 For gaming the top choice is Creative's Audigy 2 ZS card.Anyone claiming otherwise has little clue,its not a music card we are talking about here,its gaming. Audigy 2 ZS is it,and for music is more than most with little speakers will ever need. For music the new Creative EMU 1820 beats all the would be great cards(MAudio,Audiotrak and Co.) So see kids Creative is not as bad as some of you would like to belive. I compared the EMU 1820 with Dynaudio Air monitors at home against both MAudio and Audiotrak competition and the 1820 bests them both,and the gain in quality is audible.With high end monitors,forget cheapo PeaSee sepakers here kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinipig523 Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Ear, The Creative 1820, where did you get yours? I have some Polk LSi (9 and 7) that would probably benefit from this soundcard. We arent talking PeeSee speakers here ya know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verso Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 For $400, the EMU 1820 better kick some serious ***. Heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 I got mine from my contact who works in a music(instruments,DJ gear and the works) store. Paid around cost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkpark Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 you'd do just as well with an EMU 1212M card which is only $199 MSRP. To clarify some things, EMU is not creative. creative just owns EMU which create the FX chips for the the creative labs sound cards. the FX chip on the EMU cards is of better quality than the one in the sound blaster cards. Also, Creative just released the Audigy 4 Pro which retails for around 279 USD. check this out: http://www.soundblaster.com/products/Audigy4pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinipig523 Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 From what I heard, the audigy 4 is a useless upgrade from the audigy 2zs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 Thanks all. I built the rest of the machine already, think I'm going to go get the audigy2 gamer today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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