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1 RECOMMENDED by 152 people for OVERALL
Creative Labs Sound Blaster  Audigy 4
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$35.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.pricegrabber.com
    5.0 Stars it plays music with higher fidelity than most other sound card.
  2. from www.pricegrabber.com
    4.0 Stars built systems for my kids to hoard their mp3's and play games, used this sound card in both.
  3. from www.mwave.com
    4.0 Stars summary: built systems for my kids to hoard their mp3's and play games, used this sound card in both.
  4. from www.circuitcity.com
    5.0 Stars easy to install, and is a big diffence over my old sound card, i could tell the diffrence as soon as i started playing music.
  5. from kgivens, www.pricegrabber.com
    4.0 Stars cards offer even higher sound fidelity and offload more sound-processing workload from the cpu summary: built systems for my kids to hoard their mp3's and play games, used this sound card in both.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Easy Installation, Great Sound Quality, Card Interface: PCI
2 RECOMMENDED by 279 people for OVERALL
Diamond Multimedia XtremeSound 7.1 Sound Card
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$43.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from ChrisP from P-burg,WV, www.circuitcity.com
    4.5 Stars you can't find a card with digital optical for this price and it sounds great and has a real recording program not a trial version.
  2. from www.pricegrabber.com
    4.0 Stars it has a good features set including dolby ex and dts formats 7.1 channel, 96k/24bit playback, 48k/16bit recording, 7.1 virtual speaker shifter providing surround sound, eax 2.0 and a3d sound support
  3. from Jim S from Blairsville, GA, clickfrom.buy.com
    5.0 Stars you wont get the sound of the more expensive cards but it is great for listening to music while you work.
  4. from NA, www.pricegrabber.com
    5.0 Stars strengths: -dolby digital live -music sounds good -sounds great with games -rebranded turtle beach montego ddl -no static on mic weaknesses: -can't have analog and dolby digital at the same
  5. from www.pricegrabber.com
    4.0 Stars however, i do listen to a lot of music (cd's and mp3's), and the sound quality when listening to those is near perfect.
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Positives: Easy Installation, Easy To Use, Nice Sound Quality, Output Mode: 7.1 Channel Surround
3 RECOMMENDED by 55 people for OVERALL
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
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$300.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars allows for enough speakers and the programs it come with allow me to clean up and fix my old music.cons: some might find the card a little big.
  2. from www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars 3)the sound card was a pain to install, for instance the jp1/shunt piece for use of condenser mics to record with was so small and tedious to install.
  3. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars great sound, 7.1 support, eax 4.0 hd (wow.), tons of inputs for audio junkies, nice suite of software for beggining music writers and samplers.
  4. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars fire wire works and is also in front of the case.cons: fire wire creates a small audio noise when starting or stopping video recording.i have never found these artifacts after rendering.
  5. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars when i finished installing the audigy2 zs platinum, i heard a vast improve ment on my music.
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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, Easy Installation, Easy To Use, Output Mode: 7.1 Channel Surround
4 RECOMMENDED by 189 people for OVERALL
Creative Labs Audigy  2 ZS Sound Card
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$380.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from A Customer from Fountain Hills,AZ, clickfrom.buy.com
    5.0 Stars it provides excellent sound quality for music and games.
  2. from www.pricegrabber.com
    5.0 Stars uses it's onboard cpu when set to advanced feature instead of using the one in your laptop, leaves more room for your internal cpu to work on all the data for your game, movie, music, or dj software.
  3. from www.circuitcity.com
    5.0 Stars i note that people rarely touch on the recording features of sound cards.
  4. from aceruser, www.shopping.com
    5.0 Stars the bottom line: better than even my audiophile expectations, this card has made my best ever recordings, and plays midi instruments wonderfully.
  5. from www.pricegrabber.com
    4.0 Stars the card also supports 24-bit/96khz recording (same as playback) along with asio 2.0 support which should be sufficient for casual recording.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Easy Installation, Great Sound Quality, PC Card
 
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