A/V Recommend a sound card and/or Gaming headset

feathers · 13 Mar 2012

PhoenixTank said: ↑

I think I have more or less settled on either the Corsair 1300 or 1500 as far as a headset goes.

I do hear plenty of good things about the DX for value and quality. I'd have no gripes about buying from ASUS.

I was honestly surprised, but after listening to some audio samples (on TomsHardware, I think), a few microphones in their gaming headset roundup were far from clear.
As above, definitely will consider the Asus cards.

The repeated delays don't fill me with confidence, though the 10 driver idea is interesting. Thanks for the advise on USB sound - nice to know there is a clear benefit to dedicated sound cards and headsets.

Fairs well in reviews, and particularly happy that it seems to pick up microphone input well without boosting. I have actually found somewhere I can buy one, which is great.
Corsair 1300 & this card? Tempting. Only "flaw" is the use of PCI, but I'd be fooling myself if I said I would want to carry over this card to a new build in a few years time, so not a big issue, I think.
Thanks for posting, Feathers.

Thanks everyone!
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I was a bit worried about PCI myself but my previous PCIe soundcard the Titanium XFI was so bad I realised limiting myself to PCIe was not the best idea.

Motherboards will carry PCI for some time yet.

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