What should I look for in a Sound Card? Hello:
I have come to a point where my onboard audio has begun to suck. Listening at my favorite radio program on www.worl660.com, 6:00- 9:00 AM, the program starts to skip and stop, just loosing the sound and repeating this condition to the point of almost driving me nuts!
Therefore I am compelled to get a separate unit installed on the PCI slots on the MB.
I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audugy2 installed on another pc that’s running Win 2000 and Windows XP.
But moving up to a Windows 7 Sound Blaster seems to be a good solution in resolving this hiccupping system.Can anyone out there point to a compatible Sound Blaster to run on my mainboard which is listed below:
Property Value
Manufacturer MSI
Model 740GTM-P21 (MS-7302)
Version 1.0
North Bridge ATI RS690/RS690M Revision 00
South Bridge AMD SB700 Revision 00
CPU AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 240 Processor
Cpu Socket Socket AM3 (938)
System Slots 4 PCI
Memory Summary
Maximum Capacity 8192 MBytes
Memory Slots 2
Error Correction None
Warning! Accuracy of DMI data cannot be guaranteedThere are three vacant PCI slots, because the top one is occupied with an Nvidia 210 PCIe video card.
I am willing to stop looking and await any suggestion about the installation of this card.
Thanks in advance for your helpful input in resolving this critical piece of hardware gotchas.
Regards,
Purdew112
When losing sound and skipping with streaming audio the first place to look is you internet connection. If that is at fault, which is what the symptoms point to, a new sound card isnt going to improve matters. Stuart
It could also be you have too much junk running in the background. Shut down any software that doesn't need to be running and see if that makes a difference.
I agree with the above. It could be either or a combination of both. It could also be caused by spyware or malware. I doubt it's a hardware problem.
In addition to all the above comments which I agree with, some stations broadcast at low quality and will not sound very good even with a good internet connection.
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