suggestions for buying a sound card for a friend... max budget 2k

[crazyysoul]

@ Cerberus..Got ur point bro...thanks...

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and its good that it works on win 7..
but one last query @ cereberus ... Xfi xtreme gamer sb0770 vs xfi xtreme music sb0460...which one is better coz i can get sb0770 upto 2k...

[Cerberus]

Honestly I didnt used it. BTW people say they are almost identical. and people here selling x-fi xtremegamer OEM at 3-4k. So i think there is no point getting almost identical performance card on 3x higher price.

[sohaib50k]

Both cards posses the same chip CA20K1,109snr (multichannel)
And the same DAC of cirruslogic,so sound "quality" would be the same.

[Usama Ahmed]

Get Creative Xfi Xtreme Music.

[Cerberus]

Both cards posses the same chip CA20K1,109snr (multichannel)
And the same DAC of cirruslogic,so sound "quality" would be the same.

one thing, XtremeGamer has dedicated 16MB X-ram, while X-fi has 2mb hynix ram, but there were few games who uses this memory

[sohaib50k]

Well he asked abut quality,so ram is irrelevant, although No game IMO uses x-ram.

[Cerberus]

Well he asked abut quality,so ram is irrelevant, although No game IMO uses x-ram.

yes only few used it.....when x-fi was released