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Puterguy
10-15-2003, 06:19 PM
I am first and foremost a web design, print advertising and video editing type of person, but over the years I have enjoyed GigaStudio as a hobby on my old P3 700 with an original SB Live.

I am building a new \"for fun\"/hobby-oriented PC for a few games and messing with GS160 and the like, but want to spend most of my money on an Athlon64 3200, a gig of ram and a large hard drive. So the barebones of the PC will be plenty strong enough.

That said, what is a nice, cheap sound card option for my XP setup?

I do have an Audigy MP3+ laying around that I could pop in there. Would the kX Project drivers be sufficient enough to work with this?

I will rarely, if ever, do anything but capture some wavs within GS160. I mean, this is only a hobby... and the limited \"professional\" use will be with some Macromedia Flash web sites which crunches the sound anyway.

So, would these kX drivers be fine, or should I look elsewhere? The cheaper the better since I want to put the current budget into the processor, mobo and such.

I searched for plenty of topics on this, but they\'re all around 8 months old minimum.

Thanks in advance.
killerbobjr
10-16-2003, 01:00 PM
M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 -- cheap, good sound, good drivers, low latency -- we use it in our base units.
killerbobjr
10-16-2003, 01:01 PM
M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 -- cheap, good sound, good drivers, low latency -- we use it in our base units.
Puterguy
10-17-2003, 01:51 PM
I\'ve heard of some past problems with Audiophile 2496 drivers. Has all of that been sorted out? I\'ll be using XP Home. And will switch to XP 64-bit when it\'s out.

I basically need something no more expensive than that... $150 is my absolute maximum breaking point since I\'m trying to build a whole Athlon64 system from scratch.

Thanks, all.
killerbobjr
10-17-2003, 03:36 PM
Sorry about the double post -- not quite sure what happened there. If you use the WDM ver 5.10.0.27 drivers you will be fine. The .29 ones seem to have problems.
Puterguy
10-17-2003, 04:27 PM
Thanks a million. I\'ll probably go with this one.
korayus
10-25-2003, 12:20 PM
Hi there,
M-Audio Announces AMD Athlon 64 Processor Compatibility

For details,
http://m-audio.com/news/php/amd_64.php (\"http://m-audio.com/news/php/amd_64.php\")

I\'d like to say \"Thank you very much M-Audio.\"
But also we need to hear same from Nemesys\'s (Tascam) GigaStudio 64-bit support.