First post, by Vipachei
I finally gave up on holding onto Windows 7 so I decided to upgrade it to Windows 11. It's a Xeon E3-1230 on a Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV with an integrated Realtek ALC887 and I ran into the usual problem of not being able to find a driver that works with my analog 5.1 speaker setup. That means it's stereo only, no surround and absolutely no bass. I tried every possible driver available, every fix, solution and magic trick but couldn't get W11 to produce 5.1. I'm not surprised, my rig is 12 years old but it's more than enough for me.
So I decided to buy my first ever dedicated sound card that probably exceeds the value of the entire computer and found out that the market of internal sound cards is pretty limited. I don't really know anything about sound cards so I need your help finding the correct one.
Could you suggest me a PCI-E card that works under Windows 11 (and potentially W12 too), has 5.1 analog output jacks, isn't an ancient design/chip with new drivers and doesn't cost more than $75 (if possible)?
Thanks.