upgrading sound card what to get?

[imnotplutonium]

I have the old soundblaster live! and it is slowly crapping out. now-a-days i can not run anything hardware rendered or I get a loud buzzing noise. driver is updated.

I am wanting a new card that is of good quality and performs well under games, i play fear and bf2142. I like the x-fi extreme gamer fatality but have heard bad reports from it. i really like the remote and front interface. any other good card that has those qualities?

[Goshawk]

if your planning on upgrading to vista eventually, and want to carry over your sound card, i'd check out some of the X-Fi cards... it looks like there are some cards that are having issues because of the HAL being removed from Vista.


~ Gos

[Kleinee]

dude get the x-fi extreme music , or if you dont like it check into the audigy 2s. There both good options and good cards the catch is, do you have the dough for it?:confused:

[imnotplutonium]

yea I was checking out the xtreme gamer and the audigy 2 zs. I think i'll get the x-fi chip since it is more of the future I guess. seems the audigy 2 is being phased out.

what about the x-fi platinum?