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First post, by fargo

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What PCI sound card do you guys recommend for my Athlon 1GHz PC? Is there a PCI card with OPL3 chip and joystick/midi port?

Reply 1 of 6, by Joseph_Joestar

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Yamaha YMF724 or 744.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 / Audigy2 ZS
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 980Ti / X-Fi Titanium

Reply 5 of 6, by fargo

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Thank you guys.

I got YMF724. The 744 and 754 have 4 sound channels instead of 2 and other features that I'm not interested in. They are also much more expensive than 724 on ebay currently.

Reply 6 of 6, by LightStruk

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The YMF7x4 cards have wavetable MIDI support in their Windows drivers. Not any help in pure DOS, but it works fine in DOS games in Windows 98 SE.