Cheap trustable internal PCI sound card

Zet12345

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I recently bought a new motherboard("GA-78LMT") but unluckily it does not have a 5.1 on-board audio it only has 2 audio + 1 microphone I think for quadro .
Before this motherboard I had another("Asrosck A75 Pro4-M") that had for even 7.1 , my speakers had 3 mini jacks(for 5.1 speakers) I think green-yellow(or orange)-black-"the other one empty" ('excuse me if I am mistaken on green or yellow)

So , as I was satisfied with my old's motherboard audio how much I have to pay for a internal PCI trustable audio card .

In addition should I buy PCI or PCI-Express sound card ?

Do you have any suggestions how much should I pay for an equal internal sound card or a little bit better ?
 

Lutfij

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According to Gigabyte's GA-78LMT-USB3/GA-78LMT-S2P specification page they both support upto 7.1 audio output.

* To configure 7.1-channel audio, you have to use an HD front panel audio module
and enable the multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver.
^ page 8

To configure 7.1-channel audio, you have to use an HD front panel audio module and enable the
multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver.
^ page 13
Courtesy of this manual provided that is the board that you own. In a nutshell, you can get 7.1 audio on your new board but you'll have wires connected to the back and front of your machine.

With respect to your audio on the ASRock A75 Pro4-M you get an ALC892 chip whereas you get either a ALC889 or an ALC887 chip on the respective Gigabyte boards so the ASRock's solution is a step up from that. I'm assuming you have your PCI-E slots populated with a dedicated GPU thus the only options is to get a PCI-E x1 riser card and picking up a PCI-E x1 sound card like:
Asus Xonar DX
Asus Strix Soar
HT|Omega Fenix

or buy a PCI based sound card though in this day and age, it'll cost you alot primarily because they'll be in limited availability or none.