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khenry
I knew my soundcard was on its way out for a while, firstly with the clicking when playing any CD (they couldn’t all be scratched) and the sudden cutting out of one of the speaker channels for stereo when recording. Rather than actually dying when the motherboard and fans went in my Jeantech case, the channel cut-out just presented itself as a fault all the time rather than the twice monthly that it happened before and I got sick of the card playing back without a problem, but screwing up my recordings.
So that was ripped out and I had the choice of buying an X-Fi, using the motherboard’s integrated sound or shuffling the cards around. So far, I’ve chosen the latter and put my Audigy 2 value from the other machine into the new build and resurrected a Live! 5.1 that’s not been inside a PC for three years. Of course, the Live! worked as if I’d bought it that day and in a PC that’s never going to have Vista on it, it’s all I need - and I’ve denied Creative a sale, until they release OEM X-Fi variants which actually use the modern chipset like the retail cards do. The ideal solution would be a retail X-Fi and then I wouldn’t have to care about my OS as the sound quality *should* remain the same in XP and Vista. Sadly, that £50 went on fans for both machines instead.
Still, the oldest part of the new build is now the network card from January 06 bought at the same time as the Socket A MSI board and NICs can surpass even soundcards for lasting almost forever. At least one of the computers is working as intended.
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