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    A Good Sound Card????

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Vedya, May 23, 2008.

  1. Vedya

    Vedya There Is No Substitute...

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    Hey,

    I need a sound card for my nb. Budget is around 50-75$. Uses will be audio editing, movies, games etc. What do you reccomend?
     
    Vedya, May 23, 2008
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  2. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Dude, as I said on the Clevo forum :
    -USB sound card Live! 24bit from Creative
    -Express sound card ,from creative also.This one is suposedly giving you a boost in fps too.
     
    eleron911, May 23, 2008
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  3. tangograndma

    tangograndma Notebook Geek

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    I take it you're NOT wanting to modify that Clevo with desktop soundcard, right? I mean it HAS the room, right?

    If not, then the express card one that Eleron911 mentioned will suit all your purposes. If you're non-pro then it will be fine. By the time you NEED a more pro one, you'll be able and know enough about gear that even on a seriously limited budget, you won't regret getting the above. Having it NOW, vs, later, .... better than that won't make any difference in the real world, for now.

    the BEST solution though is sell that Clevo (sorry, it's really a game rig, not pro media machine) and get something that can either fit a pro card or go back to desktop OR migrate to the latest MAC (better integrated ADC/DAC's from what I remember, though this might have changed with the tiny differences these days in ADC's that are new).

    If you want to stay in a mobile format and not go Apple, then possibly something like an Inspiron no older than 2-3 years old (1.4ghz cpu minimum). We media people RARELY use our media apps AND other apps (they take up all our monitor space, so we alt-tab if we're using like a browser or something, right?). Why Inspiron?????

    Because they offer that cheap old D-Port that will plug into ANY of their line of notebooks older than a few years that can hold an outside non-firewire/usb soundcards (you can fit any of the soundcards that are 32-bit 33hrz into a D-port) so you could use something like a M-Audio Delta 1010 pro rack with your consumer-based game or Inspiron rig!!!!

    Who knew???

    The XPS's, of any kind, will work too.
    Now I'm wrong if the Clevo has a Dock that can fit a full pci card though, otherwise you're better off selling it and getting a more suitable machine for the other things besides gaming- or else that express card WILL BE TOTALLY FINE!!!!
    Yeah.

    :p
     
    tangograndma, May 23, 2008
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  4. Vedya

    Vedya There Is No Substitute...

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    Which do you think is better eleron?
     
    Vedya, May 23, 2008
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