First post, by walterg74
Hi folks,
Trying to make up my mind on what sound card(s) to pick for use on the different systems I am building, and looking for advice/opinions on the matter.
These are the systems I have so far. For the "486 type" systems, I'm *almost* sure I will end up keeping just one and sell off the rest though I'm not 100% sure yet. Same for the 386s of which I have 2.
- 286 25MHz / 2MB RAM
- 386SX 40MHz / 4MB RAM
- 386DX 40MHz + FPU / 4MB RAM
- 486DX-2 66 MHz / 16MB RAM
- 486DX-4 100 MHz / 16MB RAM
- AMD 5x86 133 MHz / 16MB RAM
- Pentium MMX 233 MHz / 32MB RAM
- Pentium II 450MHz / 128MB RAM
- Pentium III 933MHz / 256MB RAM
- Pentium 4 3.0 GHz / 512MB RAM
And these are the sound cards I have on hand:
- Adlib clone
- Sound Blaster Pro
- Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 x 2
- Sound Blaster 16 (several of these, different models like 1740, 2230, 2290, etc. -none without one of the hanging note bugs, some with CSP chip)
- Sound Blaster 32 (CT3670 model actually, filled with 32MB SIMMs)
- Sound Blaster Live! x 2 (SB0060 and CT4670)
- Aureal Vortex 1 card
- Aureal Vortex 2 card by Aureal (kinda like the SQ2500 but not exactly that model)
- Many (around 15?) ISA cards, al most all of them with real OPL3/Yamaha chips (and ESS, Crystal, AD, etc. chips for PCM)
Ok, go.... 😀