Who can recommend me a soundcard?

gejr · 2007-09-18 09:15:29

I want a soundcard for my desktop computer which supports hardware mixing. Dmix is obviously not the way to go. I don't care about having a really good soundcard, I just want to be able to play music while I'm playing games.

So, if I've understood this correctly I need a rather simple card with a few different channels that work well with Linux.

Any recommendations please? PCI is preferable.

Pierre · 2007-09-18 09:27:48

All cards with an emu10k1 chip on it are well supported by linux/alsa.

gejr · 2007-09-18 10:30:30

Thank you. Which cards are that again? All Audigy and SB Live! cards?

Will even this modest card do?
Creative SB Audigy SE PCI, 7.1 Surround, 24-bit/96KHz, Retail..

It is listed at a humble $45 here in Norway.

Last edited by gejr (2007-09-18 10:38:17)

Pierre · 2007-09-18 10:37:27

No, there are some live and audigy cards with some other chips.

Lone_Wolf · 2007-09-18 13:07:45

Alsa soundcardlist for creative

The Creative SB Audigy SE DOESN'T use an emu10k1 or emu10k2 , so you'll have to look firther

gejr · 2007-09-18 13:22:57

Thanks a lot for pointing me to that site. Great stuff. Seems no vendors sell Sound Blaster Live's anymore unfortunately. I'll have to do some thorough googl'ing on this one^^

samoturk · 2007-09-18 13:35:00

Sound Blaster Audigy 4 should be still available. It is an excellent card.

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Who can recommend me a soundcard?

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