First post, by elmirador
- Rank
- Newbie
I'm searching for sound cards for my SFF retro PC build.
Other than SB0090 and Xwave YMF724, I bought some of the no-brand clone cards just for fun.
6 of these 7 are ESS-based cards. 3 of the 4 Solo-1 clones are complete with boxes and driver CDs.
There's another one based on YMF754 on the way.
As you can see all boards are in red triangular shapes, probably come from some random factory in Shenzhen back in the day.
The PCB is... sparse, at most, compared to their legit counterparts.
I haven't tried them out yet but I guess they'll probably sound like crap 🤣
Even the boxes have two flavors.
Box1 front & back (All Solo-1 clones come from this box):
Box2 front & back:
(Does Solo-1 even support 4ch???)
One of the "solo-1"'s soldering job is absolutely disgusting.
I'll record some audio out of these cards once I got everything up and running.
HP T5710 (1.2GHz variant) / T5720 (No expansion module) / T5730 w/ expansion / T5740 w/ expansion
Toshiba Satellite 310CDT