Sound card question

swinada · Post by **swinada** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:23 pm

I was looking around for a cheap sound card. Found this http://www.aopen.com/products/sound/aw850.htm
anybody any experience with this card? good or bad.
Would be using it on a ECS board with Celery chip (2Ghz) and GeForce MX 400 videocard. Running ME, may be XP.

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:32 pm

That's the c-media 8738, it is excellent. To me it sounds better and richer than a live value card. Cannot beat it for the price.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 6:03 pm

No IRQ problems either.

walker2009 · Post by **walker2009** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:48 am

A great card for the price, i just built a pc with one in and it sounds as good as my audigy card!
Ive had no probs with it!

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:17 pm

do these cards have dsp and soundfont cappabilities (the only reason i stay with creative because i use them for music production)

Slugbait · Post by **Slugbait** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:19 pm

My Asus mobo has this chip built-in. Was originally gonna disable it in favor of a SoundBlaster, but it worked fine, sounded good, so I'm still using it...

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:57 pm

Originally posted by BillyGoat
do these cards have dsp and soundfont cappabilities (the only reason i stay with creative because i use them for music production)

I don't think so, but check over their site to be sure.

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:16 am

Dosnt appear so, but it still looks like a damn fine solution 6.1 , 100db signal to noise, 96k sample rate- all those things are comparble to audigy and santa cruz audio