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Thread: External Sound Card?

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    I can't use my front headphone socket on my comp. because it don't work so it's inconvenient to keep getting on the floor to reach round to the rear one when I want have loud sound via my headphones!
    So I'm thinking of getting an external sound card "Audigy 1/2"
    are they worth getting?

    Will using this external card allow me to have a box on my desk top from which I can plug my head phones in and adjust volume etc. and also plug my surround sound speakers in?

    Also I have a 5.1 surround sound on-board motherboard
    will the external card still work ok?

    Can anyone suggest what else I could buy to plug my headphones/ surround sound speakers into instead of a external sound card?

    Thanks

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    can you link us to one? how does it connect to your comp if its external?

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    Buy corresponding adaptors/connectors to your built-in sound card, so that you can connect whatever you want. I think this is universal audio connector.

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    I used a Soundblaster Extigy with my old mobo, and yes, you get a external box with volume, phone, mic and speaker connections with that unit.
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    Originally posted by clocker@2 December 2003 - 00:28
    I used a Soundblaster Extigy with my old mobo, and yes, you get a external box with volume, phone, mic and speaker connections with that unit.
    Yeah it think thats what i want to get so I can put it on my desk!
    Is it anygood?

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    Yes, I thought so.
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    *update*

    This is the one I was thinking of getting do you think it will do all that I want?
    Looks like it to me!

    Audigy 2 NX

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    Originally posted by BILLY-THE-FISH@1 December 2003 - 17:17
    *update*

    This is the one I was thinking of getting do you think it will do all that I want?
    Looks like it to me!

    Audigy 2 NX
    The other option, in fact, the one I will be putting in my new rig, is the Audigy Platinum, which has all the same features but mounts the unit in a 5' bay in your pc case.
    Either way, Creative Labs is the benchmark by which others measure their sound solutions.
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  10. Software & Hardware   -   #10
    Originally posted by clocker@2 December 2003 - 01:28
    The other option, in fact, the one I will be putting in my new rig, is the Audigy Platinum, which has all the same features but mounts the unit in a 5' bay in your pc case.
    Either way, Creative Labs is the benchmark by which others measure their sound solutions.
    That option is ok but I don't want all the wires from my surround sound system sticking out the front of my tower!
    The Audigy 2 allows you to let them hang out the back!

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