A sound suggestion... Go for an OEM SBLive! card... very cheap, heck goto Future shop. THey sometimes have returned ones...that are both cheap & useful ;p
I found hardware hacks to turn an SB 512 I believe into an SBLive too ;p As an aside, Xgamer/Mp3+/Live! are all the same. Just diff s/w bundles Femme Brian Durant wrote: > Hi again, > > Thanks for all the help so far from Roger, Paul and Shane. To save some > money, I was thinking of using my Iomega ZipCD 650 CDRW with this > configuration. Does anyone have any experience using a CDRW USB 1 with > Mandrake 8? Any problems. By the way, the main caveats for my > configuration are as follows: > > 1) As little legacy stuff as possible. No ISA ports and a minimum of > serial and paralel ports. > 2) This is a $US 1,000 box so while a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/ > Live! sound card and a ATI Radeon AIW 32mg video card sound great, I am > not sure that I can squeeze those into my budget. The point about CPU > slowdown with onboard sound is well taken however, and I will try to find > a dooable alternative. > > Here is a reminder of the original configuration with the extra RAM > added, which I understand is a must: > > - Pentium IV 1.6GHz > - Mainboard Intel D845BG > - Memory 512MB DDR Ram > - Harddisk 40GB 7200Rpm IDE > - VGA Geforce2MX-200 64MB > - FDD 1.44MB > - Casing ATX P4 300Watt > - Sound Onboard > - Speaker Active > - FireWire Card 3 ports > - USB 4 ports (support 2.0) > - NIC Ethernet 10/100 Mbps > - Zip Internal 250MB > - 17" Viewsonic E70 > > Cheers, > > Brian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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