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Looking to buy an old used PCI sound card to put on my retro gaming pc. Any recommendations? 

Main PC: ROG Zephyrus G14 2020
CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS |

RAM : 16Gb DDR4 |

GPU : Nvidia GTX 1660Ti Max Q |

Storage : 512Gb NVme SSD |


Secondary PC:

CPU : Xeon E5 2620 v3 |

Mobo : Jingsha X99 D4 |

RAM : 16Gb DDR4 |

Cooler : Deepcool Ice Edge Mini FS V2 |

GPU : Nvidia GTX750Ti |

Storage : Samsung 860 EVO 250gb (OS) |

PSU : Super Flower SF-500R12N |

Case : Cube Gaming Fernos |

 

Peripherals:

Monitor : AOC 24G2 |

Keyboard : Digital Alliance Meca Fighter Ice - Akko CS Vintage White |

Mouse : HyperX Pulsefire Haste |

Headphones : Phillips SHP9500 |

Mic : Taffware BM800 |

Mic Arm : Some cheap bogstandard arm |

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Soundblaster Live for anything from Windows 98 to Windows XP.  You can even stretch it into Windows 10 if you are not afraid of community written drivers.

 

For DOS, I would have to say Gravis UltraSound is the gold standard.

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Look for some cards with Aureal Vortex 2 chip of you want good 3D sound but not perfect compatibility with DOS games. Look for Creative SoundBlaster cards or some cards with good FM chips if you want good music reproduction in older games ...

 

How retro do you want to go? if you mean DOS games, see channels that are into stuff like that.. .Phil's Computer Lab, forums like https://www.vogons.org/ and its wiki

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20 minutes ago, rice guru said:

Don't ask for best if it's for retro games a generic sound card from Asus for like $50 should be fine. 

He's definitely going to need the best on the market RME HDSPe MADI to get the job done ?

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11 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Soundblaster Live for anything from Windows 98 to Windows XP.  You can even stretch it into Windows 10 if you are not afraid of community written drivers.

Cool just found one for a dollar, Thanks. 

Main PC: ROG Zephyrus G14 2020
CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS |

RAM : 16Gb DDR4 |

GPU : Nvidia GTX 1660Ti Max Q |

Storage : 512Gb NVme SSD |


Secondary PC:

CPU : Xeon E5 2620 v3 |

Mobo : Jingsha X99 D4 |

RAM : 16Gb DDR4 |

Cooler : Deepcool Ice Edge Mini FS V2 |

GPU : Nvidia GTX750Ti |

Storage : Samsung 860 EVO 250gb (OS) |

PSU : Super Flower SF-500R12N |

Case : Cube Gaming Fernos |

 

Peripherals:

Monitor : AOC 24G2 |

Keyboard : Digital Alliance Meca Fighter Ice - Akko CS Vintage White |

Mouse : HyperX Pulsefire Haste |

Headphones : Phillips SHP9500 |

Mic : Taffware BM800 |

Mic Arm : Some cheap bogstandard arm |

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On 9/17/2019 at 8:37 PM, TheAgnda said:

He's definitely going to need the best on the market RME HDSPe MADI to get the job done ?

Thought that MIDI port was Mcintosh's MCD port for their CD players, i need to stop buying mcintosh gear ._.

LTT's Resident Porsche fanboy and nutjob Audiophile.

 

Main speaker setup is now;

 

Mini DSP SHD Studio -> 2x Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC's (fed by AES/EBU, one feeds the left sub and main, the other feeds the right side) -> 2x Neumann KH420 + 2x Neumann KH870

 

(Having a totally seperate DAC for each channel is game changing for sound quality)

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1 hour ago, Derkoli said:

Thought that MIDI port was Mcintosh's MCD port for their CD players, i need to stop buying mcintosh gear ._.

generally a financially wise choise

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22 minutes ago, rice guru said:

generally a financially wise choise

This, I agree with.

LTT's Resident Porsche fanboy and nutjob Audiophile.

 

Main speaker setup is now;

 

Mini DSP SHD Studio -> 2x Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC's (fed by AES/EBU, one feeds the left sub and main, the other feeds the right side) -> 2x Neumann KH420 + 2x Neumann KH870

 

(Having a totally seperate DAC for each channel is game changing for sound quality)

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