Audigy 2 and the Audigy 2 platinum sound cards? Or can I get the full capabilities of the Z-680 from my Audigy soundcard? PS. My budget is around $500. hi! I currently have an Audigy soundcard and some shitty speakers ;) and i'm going to upgrade by christmas....

What should I upgrade?!? Soundcard? Videocard?. So, for the last week I have been giving it some thought and I want to upgrade a few parts. Here are my stats: 6600 Core 2 Duo @ 3.2ghz eVGA 680i Motherboard 600watt Kingwin Modular Power Supply eVGA...

Upgrading soundcard. Hi, ive got a Dell dimension 3000 with the intergrated sound, i play my music thru an amp but im looking for a better sound quality. Would getting a better soundcard do any thing and if so could anybody recomend one. Ive been looking at...

specs: Motherboard: ABIT KN8 Ultra 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD (Needs Upgrade) Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ Manchester 2.0 GHz 939 Dual-Core (Needs Upgrade) Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 Channels PCI (Needs Upgrade)...

Suggestion on buying a sound card. Dear all, Recently I've bought a AV amplifier that support hardware AC3 and DTS decoding. (see I'm considering to upgrade my soundcard that support optical output to feed into the amplifier. Is there any good suggestion?...

use the computer for this) and use headphones in my soundblaster live for gaming (keeps voice chats cleaner). I want to upgrade my soundcard and am thinking about the Hercules Fortissimo 3 (or maybe the SB Audigy 2). If I do go for the Fortissimo I'll probably...

isn't dominated by noise from the soundcard then you may not get a noticeable increase in quality by upgrading soundcards. For example maybe the speaker system is where most of the noise you hear is from. A better soundcard in this instsance might not buy...

Certified TOSLINK Cable (Optical Cable) for it and I am using my motherboards onboard audio which is Realtek AC97'. Now i want to upgrade my soundcard to decrease the load on my processor and also to enhance performance. My main use for the soundcard is...

Best Speakers/Sound for **Quality** of music. I've searched the postings and haven't anything that really answers my question very well, so I'll go ahead and post it. Im looking to upgrade my soundcard/speakers here soon. I currently have a sblive! x-gamer...

more expensive, but the long term possibilies are much better. I started by hooking up my computer to an AV Amp, and then upgraded my soundcard to the live value model. I then upgraded my receiver to a Teac AG-D9320 Dolby Digital DTS, and eventually bought...