Hi! I'm planning of buying a new sound card for my pc but I don't know what brand or type to buy. I wanna make sure that I will buy the right type of sound card to avoid wasting of money. I have an ASUS Motherboard (Asustek) and am running with Pentium III 500 Mhz. 128 Mb of SDRAM. Another question isthat how ca n I know if my motherboard will allow PCI or others. Thanks.

nan, One was it to go to www.asus.com or if in the USA then http://usa.asus.com and search for Technical Reference for your particular motherboard. Or, you can open up the machine, and look to see if you have any PCI slots open. I believe that PCI are usually white, and AGP is brown. Most motherboards I have worked with only have one AGP slot ( for video ). Being that you have a Pentium 3, I would doubt that you have any ISA slots, and most of the new soundcards are PCI anyway. For some reviews of soundcards, you can try going to www.tomshardware.com or www.zdnet.com/reviews and search for soundcards. I have had good luck with Creative SoundBlaster cards in all the machines I have fixed or worked with. Maybe someone else will come up with a better response. Good luck. TnT

Hi, if your motherboard is ASUS and works with PIII, then you must have PCI slot as well Creative soundBlaster is good, but you want any other type just ask the seller if it is Microsoft compatible sound card. good luck

I'd go with Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! I guarentee it'll work with a Pentium III board. Now that Creative has come out with the new Audigy sound card, the soundlblaster live is pretty cheap, and it's an awesome sound card that comes with a lot of cool software.

hi, i have a simple question: i have no sound .if i look for the sound card there is some quesion marks near the sound letters. i think i know what happened. i was deleting some old stuff and i think i deleted my sound card.. is there anyone that can help me get it back??