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Anonymous - Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:05 pm
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Anyone recommend any good sound cards? Something compatiable w/ windows xp (and hopefully windows xp)?

Maverick - Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:26 pm
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You should pick the one that looks good and makes the best sound when you throw it out of the window of the 10th floor.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:44 pm
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If your going for quality, then try the Creative PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook or Sound Blaster X-Fi.
If your going for just something to work, give me your mail address *cough*So-I-can-send-a-bum-to-rape-and-kill-you*cough*, and I'll send you one for free (just requires shipping and handling fees). Or you can find on on ebay.com.

-Your buddy, blah-er

P.s don't take the cough seiroulsy...

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:15 pm
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What does your motherboard come with, because 9 times out of 10, I'm pretty sure that it will do just fine. Speakers make a much bigger difference in sound than comparing high/low quality sound cards.

On that note, good sound cards are so over. Hardware accelerated TCP/IP is where it is at now-a-days. That thing could run Subspace completely without a problem.

Anonymous - Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:56 pm
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i use realtech audo 97' want something that will be windows vista compat and afforadable

Yoink - Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:24 pm
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Anonymous wrote:

i use realtech audo 97' want something that will be windows vista compat and afforadable

Audiotek AC'97 won't be Vista compatible? That'd fuck over the vast majority of PC users.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:31 pm
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I suggest you shouldn't get vista, unless your using somthing for 64 bit, or if you want a better GUI in your every day life. Other then that, vista is just going to use up most of your resources. I don't know yet if MS is going to make a new GDK+ for vista, but they'll still make SPs for XP users and have support along with it.

Other then that, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, if that answers any of your questions.

The Apache - Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:44 am
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blah-er... shut up.

It all depends on the specifications of your computer if you want Vista.
It may not eat all processes up.

Assassin2684 - Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:58 am
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I was thinking about getting vista. I probably will get it with my getting a new computer in christmas my comp will probably come with it already on it.

The Apache - Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:37 pm
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I would expect the computer would be way more expensive than todays computers that are for sale.

You would need high specifications if you want a fast Vista running on a computer.

I tried Vista and it sucked for me... too much of these security alerts - you have to go through a whole menu just to get to Task Manager,

Yoink - Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:27 pm
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The Apache wrote:

blah-er... shut up.

It all depends on the specifications of your computer if you want Vista.
It may not eat all processes up.

As far as I know, the Aero GUI will consume greater system resources than the current XP GUI. Though, realistically, who wouldn't expect that? As hardware excels, the software makers (apparently) have an obligation to make overall performance the same as ever

Assassin2684 wrote:

I was thinking about getting vista. I probably will get it with my getting a new computer in christmas my comp will probably come with it already on it.

Vista won't be out until January (at the very earliest). If you're going to buy Vista so you can play games, then there's no reason for you to buy a DX9 card. DX10 will come out and you'll have to upgrade when it becomes mainstream (which is still further down the road).

I play Guild Wars and Continuum, and as far as I know, I'll shell out the money for Cedega rather than simply buying Vista. I don't like the idea of supporting the monopolist company, I don't like the idea of DRM-compliancy, the DMCA, ugh, it's all just bullshit that I shouldn't have to deal with.

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:01 pm
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Yoink wrote:

As far as I know, the Aero GUI will consume greater system resources than the current XP GUI.

Aero is designed to take advantage of the video card, so it will take greater total system resources, but most of those resources will be the video card, leaving the processer even more free than it is with standard XP.

Play with Linux at all? Give XGL a try. Even with all the eye candy turned on, on a AMD 1400+ with a Geforce 2MX, XGL takes much less resources than standard Xorg.

Yoink - Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:46 pm
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

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Aero is designed to take advantage of the video card, so it will take greater total system resources, but most of those resources will be the video card, leaving the processer even more free than it is with standard XP.

Play with Linux at all? Give XGL a try. Even with all the eye candy turned on, on a AMD 1400+ with a Geforce 2MX, XGL takes much less resources than standard Xorg.

I'm using Ubuntu under the XFCE desktop environment =I.

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:56 pm
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Still give it a shot, you'd be surpised. Anytime you resize a window, move it to another desktop, etc, it is buffered nicely on the video card itself. Bonus is that OpenGL games and any video Overlays work nicer together.

Assassin2684 - Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:36 am
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I wouldent get vista for playing games. I would get it for its better and sleeker GUI. But if itd going to be out in january then forget it. But I thought I read somewhere that it was comming out this year.

Agurus - Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:41 am
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Vista looks nice.

So does the XP-Vista Transformation pack

The Apache - Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:41 am
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I hate the new desktop icons, and I hate the sidebar.

(FYI, the sidebar on the real Windows Vista looks nothing like the one in the XP-Vista Transformation pack screenshots)

Smong - Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:25 am
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The window title bars remind me of kde, which I associate with slowness.