hum well it says that soundcare only supports up to win xp.

"it includes a microphone and a new upgrade driver to support Windows XP/Me/2000/98."

so how old is it exactly?? an UPGRADE driver to support xp? that makes this card atleast 12 years old.

no offence but if you want a cheap sound card you can atleast get an audigy 2 or even an ancient sb live would probably be better than that.

make sure your settings both in windows and in the sound card software are set to 5.1. other than this im not sure i can help. as i have no experience with that card.

i dont think you needed a sound card at all. that mobo has onboard sound which supports 5.1 fine. you just have to make sure you install and configure the drivers properly.

Audio

1. Realtek ALC889 codec
2. High Definition Audio
3. 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
   * To configure 7.1-channel audio, you have to use an HD front panel audio module and enable the multi-channel audio feature through the audio driver.
4. Support for S/PDIF Out

Hi,

I'm building a PC soon. Is this build good? My budget is 500 dollars. I don't need a mouse, monitor, OS, sound card, speakers, or optical drive. I'm buying from PCCG and MSY. I plan on picking up the items myself so I won't have to pay shipping.

AMD Phenom II X4 840

Powercolor Radeon HD6850

Seagate Barracuda 500GB

Asus M5A78-L-M-LX All-in-One AM3 DDR3 motherboard

G.Skill 8GB RAM (Actually two 4GB sticks, bought individually)

CoolerMaster Elite 430 with side window

Thermaltake LitePower 500W

This build is 500 dollars exactly. I'll quote individual prices if need be.

Thanks

Daanyal

also do not be frightened to skim money away from the case. i know yours is not expensive but you could spend half as much and be totally fine. my £19.99 case is in its 6th or 7th year and is fine. nothing can really go wrong with a case. if it is machined wrong and things dont fit then send it back. other than that, nothing can break from normal use so buying brands you trust is irrelevent.

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itll be 20 atleast.

and no, jumping from dual to quad for games makes little difference. e7300 @3ghz is very similar to q6600. you can expect similar results in all games. i could give another example with shogun 2 before/after. before i could have all on high now i can have all max with all dx11 effects and 8x aa and still have more fps than i did before with no graphics card change.

04dcarraher

Now going from a Q6600 to a i5 2500k and actually seeing an improvement in performance (without benchmarking) can be hit or miss. If you take BF3 for example you would not see too much of a difference or any game that you seen 60 fps+ with the old cpu before. Now if you try a game like Shogun 2 or Star Craft 2 yes you will see a difference because of the fact that both games can not utilize more then two threads/cores, which means brute processing power from the i5 will out perform older cpu's. As long as the game is gpu bound and the cpu can provide the gpu with the data it needs you will not see major differences between cpu's. Cpu prone games like RTS's yea you can and will see differences with heavy loads.

just dont get a laptop.

for that price range the performance will be pathetic compared to a desktop. and then in 2 years that £600 will be worth nothing and youll have to pay out more all over again. think about what you throw away when a laptop goes out of date. monitor, case, keyboard, touch pad, hard drives, disk drives, motherboard, any graphics card it might have, power supply. all this gets thrown away.

with a desktop you can keep most of those components and just upgrade cpu/mobo/gpu every few years. you will save alot of money and your quality of gaming would be worthwhile, which it wouldnt be on a cheap laptop.

no because of the motherboard chipsets being different windows wont just magically adapt.

its up to you i usually do

Hey there,

My comp is slowly starting to break down, and since Im in college I thought it would be smarter to buy a new gaming laptop,

instead of fixing up my desktop.

My price range is 1,200-2000$...

Im looking for a good gaming comp..and also if it has a financing option, then that will be even better

Thank you!

Acez626

yes.

theyre worth it, anyone could hear the difference in a game or music or just in the windows startup riff. and the software that comes with them is useful too. i use an xfi card which is probably 6 years old now. switching to the "game" settings in the xfi console makes the soundscape much more accurate. and "entertainment" makes music so much better etc. i wouldnt play games without it.

itll be 20 atleast.

and no, jumping from dual to quad for games makes little difference. e7300 @3ghz is very similar to q6600. you can expect similar results in all games. i could give another example with shogun 2 before/after. before i could have all on high now i can have all max with all dx11 effects and 8x aa and still have more fps than i did before with no graphics card change.

you wanna pay $1500 to play diablo 3?

you realise that you need a permenant net connection to play diablo 3?

other than that. ive a bridge to sell you.