Hi Bill, Technically speaking youtube will sound fairly horrible no matter what you pipe it through, the original quality of your mp3's will play a massive part, which leaves us with better games performance as the key factor. I don't know a lot about products currently aimed at the avid home user because I tend to run anything that's important through the high-end interfaces I use to record music, but they'd be totally overkill just for games price-wise. One piece of advice I can give you though is don't be drawn in by Creative's marketting speak. These days, you'll pay over the odds for what is a very average card with fairly naff D to A conversion if you go with Creative, it always amazes me that people swear by cards that perform badly technically just because the brand used to be good when there are a miriad of alternatives. If accessible games titles are your main focus though, seeing as none of them yet really stretch the capabilities of a high-end card, I'd suggest considering setting aside a chunk of what you've got to spend for decent cables and either speakers/headphones depending on how you tend to play.
Hth, headphones are more my bag, so if they get added to the spending list I can be more specific on those... Scott On 12/27/09, William L. Houts <cad...@q.com> wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > I'm getting a new Dell tower in the next few days and am thinking of buying > a new set of speakers to go with it. Does anyone have a suggestion for a > good brand to look into? Something that'll really give You Tube, MP3's and > games a rocket boost? > > > --Bill > > ---- > > "Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar!" > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
