audigy platinum (EX if you want the external audigy drive). of course this judgement is hard to make, sinc ei duno what u wana do with it...if you are looking for professional audio, there are other ...

If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.

Creative Sound Blaster AE-X Introduction Dedicated sound cards have become a niche upgrade in modern desktop PCs, mostly because motherboard audio has improved significantly over the past decade. Yet ...

What's the best sound card I can get for $40? I've currently got ac '97 built into the motherboard and would like something that doesn't have so many problems with skipping.