Best Sound Card for Vista64

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Snowis

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I've got an Asus A8N32 Sli Deluxe Mobo and my Creative X-Fi card started making all kinds of static after i reinstalled windows. I've been looking for a solution but with little to no results. So now I'm looking for a replacement card with decent to good performance for a 5.1 sound system PCI-E x1 interface but above all, few to none compatability issues with Vista 64. Thanks in advance.
 

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    AMD 4600 Toledo 64X2
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    Asus A8N32 Sli Deluxe
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    Corsair DDR400 4GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA NVidia 8800GTS
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer
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    Two 22" Acer WS LCD
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    1920x1200
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Snowis said:
I've got an Asus A8N32 Sli Deluxe Mobo and my Creative X-Fi card started making all kinds of static after i reinstalled windows. I've been looking for a solution but with little to no results. So now I'm looking for a replacement card with decent to good performance for a 5.1 sound system PCI-E x1 interface but above all, few to none compatability issues with Vista 64. Thanks in advance.
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Your onboard sound no good? I have a 4870 x2 and my xfi kept causing crashes, I know because once i removed it the problem went away. I use onboard sound {sound max} with my new board and its excellent, before that I had a mother with real tek and that wasn't to bad either. Unless you need it for sound mixing or whatever, your not going to get better sound anyways.
 

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There are a couple of the "Best" sound cards for Vista, mostly Creative cards, but to get ANY hardware to be fully "Issue Free" is impossible...you just have to work out issues if they arise sometimes.
One thing I MUST make sure you know is, check with Asus to make sure your PCI-E x1 slot is not proprietary to that card. I know some of their other boards (Commando for one) has a proprietary x1 slot that ONLY the SoundMax Supreme sound card will work in. No other PCI-E x1 device will work in the x1 slot on those MB's, so make sure your's is Not one of these first.

I have been looking at the CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER X-FI PLATINUM FATAL1TY CHAMPION SERIES myself, which is PCI-E, but for a x1 slot I would go with the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series

Thing is tho, if the current card worked before you reinstalled, it should work now so I would say that the drivers are not installed properly or are corrupt, or you have the wrong drivers.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Personal Build
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    Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo
    Motherboard
    Asus Commando MoBo (P965/ICH8R)
    Memory
    4G's Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC26400 RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum FATAL1TY (next)
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    2 x 22" w2207 LCD Monitors
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    1- 1680 x 1050, 1 - 1920 x 1080
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    3 x 500G SATA II WD Caviar HDD's
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    EnerMax NoiseTaker II 600W
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    NZXT Lexa Classic (modified, dual doored & windowed)
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    Zalman 9700 CPU cooler, 4-120mm fans, 1-90mm
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    Logitech Optical Trackman trackball
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You could also consider the Auzentech Prelude 7.1 card. Its based off creative cards.
 

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    Intel DX48BT2
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    Kingston PC3-10666 4Gb
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    XFX 9800 GTX XXX
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    Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
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    2x Samsung SM-T220HD 22"
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    1680x1050 on two monitors
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    WD Raptor X/150Gb in RAID0
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    Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
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    Thermaltake Armor
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    Tuniq Tower 120
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    Dell Multimedia Enhanced USB
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    Razer Diamondback 3G
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swarfega said:
You could also consider the Auzentech Prelude 7.1 card. Its based off creative cards.
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+1; it works perfectly with Vista x64. 5.1 sound, DTS Connect, Dolby Digital Live all work with no issues. I ditched a static-laden X-Fi Platinum for the X-Fi Prelude.
 

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  • CPU
    Q9450 SLAWR
    Motherboard
    XFX 780i
    Memory
    8GB OCZ SLI 5-4-4-12@800
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX 8800 GTX 768MB (2)
    Sound Card
    Auzen X-Fi Prelude / Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung Syncmaster 214T
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200
    Hard Drives
    300GB VelociRaptor / 750GB / 500GB / 750GB
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    Antec 1000W TPQ
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    Antec 900
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    4 x 120mm, 1 x 200mm
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    Microsoft Entertainment Desktop 8000
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    Logitech G7, Razer Lachesis
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