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The purchase method of sound card

Now the sound card market can be said that the wonderful submissions, intense competition, the

sound card manufacturer in accordance with the characteristics of their own products implement

different marketing strategies, different positioning of the product and to provide more choice to

the majority of computer users. Sound card brand can be seen on the market less than 20, but

the high, mid-range sound card innovation and Diamond two, which is characterized by quality,

overall performance, and higher prices; and low-end market, there are a large number of Taiwan,

Hong Kong and manufacturers of products in the Mainland in the competition, characterized by

cheap, quality is also good, of which there are some treasures, can meet the general

requirements of users and compatible vendors love to use them to assemble sales.

In fact, with the development of the sound card technology, the new sound card launched, is

considered to be high-end sound card, and also down today has become in the low-end sound

card. If divided by price, high-end sound card for more than $ 600, mid-range sound card for

300-600 yuan, low-end sound card for 300 yuan. Sophisticated high-end sound card production,

advanced technology, extraordinary sound processing capabilities, delicate sound, the sound fie ld

expansion capability, the price is high, and need the support of multimedia speakers. Cost a good

mid-range sound card, have access to high-end sound card most of the features, coupled with the

right speaker, to obtain satisfactory results, just lose some ability to deal with 3D environmental

audio. The low-end sound card, cheap, mostly less than 200 yuan, technically relatively slightly

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behind some of the very limited capacity to deal with 3D sound, can only provide general 3D

sound effect, CPU occupancy rate is relatively high.

Sound card chip manufacturers, only a few of these chips to produce the sound card

manufacturers are numerous, but the sound card's performance is determined by the main chip

on the card, and therefore to buy a sound card, sound card chip detailed understanding and

choice is very important. With a chip, while the brand is different, the differences between them

is that the sound card work, materials and functional design and software. In the purchase of

products for Diamond, a clear understanding of the agents on the box label, innovative products,

you should choose the Chinese packaging, in order to avoid parallel to buy after-sales service is

guaranteed. Sound card for the purchase of low-grade should be selected brand than the sound

quality assurance; conditions, should allow the business to try to put some games and music can

also be used such as Audio Winbench99 test software to test and see How to.

In accordance with the requirements of different user groups on the sound card may provide the

following optional reference scenario:

The demanding tone

User for computer composing computer music lovers and sound card, sound card sound high, the

music features to complete, should choose the innovation of the Sound BlasterLive And

innovative sound card has its own unique music performance is unmatched by other brand of

sound card. The card can provide up to 28MB of hard wave table, 512 notes of polyphony, 128

MIDI channels, professional musicians to play a high standard will be selected configuration.

Game enthusiasts

Attaches great importance to the gaming enthusiasts of the game audio, you can choose the

innovative Sound Blaster Live! Value, Diamond MX-300 MX-200. Less than 1000 yuan price,

allows you to fully experience the charm of 3D environmental audio. Users who want to create a

home theater environment, you can choose Diamond MX-300, coupled with the MX-25 sub-card

is a perfect home theater solution. Of course, but also carefully configured your speaker system,

such as the choice of 4.1 or 5.1 speaker system.

Mid-range users

Economic well-off enough and want to covet 3D environmental audio style user can be chosen

Diamond MX-80 and IS90, innovation, the Sound Blaster PCI128, the Sound Blaster PVI164

matched 2.1 speaker system or high-quality wooden speakers, to get satisfactory results.

General application

For general users, only look at the VCD, enjoy CD music, multimedia education and playing of

Internet telephony, and the sound of the game do not ask, optional sound cards using YAMAHA

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chip, more than 10 varieties. performance and quality, it is recommended Ling, GVC, Yu and Kao,

high-profile sound card is selected, or the use of the ESS Maestro-2 chip Diamond IS70 can meet

the daily use. Would like a little cheaper, is optional to the first generation of PCI chip, such as

ESS's Maestro-1, Trident company 4Dwave-DX chip, ALS company ALS300 chip and the S3

SonicVibes chip sound card, but also to get better results . The same time, if the CPU

performance is good, such as PII and K6-2, memory, 32MB or more, it may be fitted with the

S-YXG-50 type of wave form, with the CPU processing power is now accompanied by a pair of

good wood speakers, maximizing access to a more perfect wave table sound effects, virtually

equal to the sound card to the next level.

Integration of the motherboard

There are more and more on the motherboard integrated sound card, get the good results of the

3D environmental audio, the price is also cheaper than the purchase of the motherboard and

sound card respectively, and eliminates the trouble of installation, may also reduce the use that

may occur errors. In addition, also in the BIOS or a jumper on the motherboard to set whether to

use the integrated sound card, sound card for future upgrades is very convenient for DIY family

selection.

Sound card upgrade problems

Seldom the sound card driver upgrade, mainly due to the upgrade effect did not like to upgrade

the card driver and motherboard BIOS file as obvious, and therefore can easily be overlooked.

But now the sound card function has been greatly improved than in the past, but also more

complex than in the past, technology updates fast, manufacturers often update the driver.

Regularly upgrade the sound card driver to improve the performance of the sound card to

improve compatibility, give full play to the sound card is a great effect at. But should be noted

that many no-name sound card manufacturer does not provide a driver upgrade download.

In general, the sound card chip manufacturers will provide its production of chips corresponding

to the sound card driver, but this is a common driver, while the sound card manufacturer to get

the sound card chip soundcard design, design ideas vary, and the meaning of the produced sound

card function will be different, the drivers used are also different. Only provided by the

manufacturer of the original sound card drivers, in order to have the best support on the sound

card. 3D environmental audio technology continues to evolve, more and more game makers

added to the boom support A3D and EAX 3D environmental sounds in the game increased,

greatly increased the environmental effects of the game.

Sound card to upgrade a content update to the wave table file, because the wave table file is

stored on your hard disk, so the update is easy to use, once the vendor has released a new wave

table file, just download, copyed hard disk overwrite the original wave form The file can wave

table file to the Windows system folder. If you think the other brand sound card table is good

quality, can also be borrowed to use, provided that the file size must be the same, if the wave

table file format is inconsistent, you can use a conversion tool to convert wave table file formats

your sound card to identify and changed the file to the same name.