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Try using a USB to PS2 adapter if you have a spare PS2 port. There are mini USB to 3.5mm adapters, but good luck finding a USB to 3.5mm adapter, esp in USB female to 3.5mm male configuration.

Tsk tsk, speak not of things you know nothing about.

Headphones with a usb connector instead of the typical 3.5mm jack tend to have a usb sound card built in, just plug it into a usb port.

Tsk tsk, speak not of things you know nothing about.

Headphones with a usb connector instead of the typical 3.5mm jack tend to have a usb sound card built in, just plug it into a usb port.

I know that asshole, he made it sound like he didn't even have a USB port to plug it into. You need to get off that I'm a genius fantasy Mesh and come down to Earth. :roll:

Be courteous, please. ;) Personal attacks aren't needed.

very true. That card hasn't been made for a while. M-Audio makes a good effort if EMU is too rich for your taste...

USB headphones have the DAC and amp inside the headphone itself. its a great (cheap) way to get ride of distortion on the speakers themselves. But is also not as high quality as other headphones.

Take what I say with a grain of salt...not everyone (like me) has owned $300 headphones with DAC's, and headphone Amps.

Paradigm Shifter, I'm sorry, it was in the wee hours of the morning and I couldn't resist.

Besides, FM has sent plenty of 'things to shovel' my way in the past, hard not to do the same.

I'll edit the post if you want.

Soduka has a headset, so he's probably interested primarily in a soundcard for games, so M-Audio/EMU stuff would be a bit off anyway...

I happen to have both a creative x-fi and a sondigo callisto which could be considered the 2 extremes of audio cards. The x-fi being the 'everything including the kitchen sink' model while the callisto is the spartan 'only what is needed' model.

Personnally, I prefer the callisto.

No driver problems, no audio glitches due to poorly coded pci routines and best of all, it just works.

Cpu usage isn't really that different between the 2 either. I get maybe 5% tops with the callisto and it's on an older x2 cpu too.

The money you save from buying something like creative's or any other decent pci sound card can be put to better use in a cpu or memory anyways.

This is not the "Creative or not Creative" thread, so it'd be more interesting to know why you favor a 'spartan' card over your mobo's sound chip ;)

...he's probably interested primarily in a soundcard for games, so M-Audio/EMU stuff would be a bit off anyway...

I've heard many make comments like this, but I've yet to see one that does actually try an M-Audio for gaming. It's a very good card for any use and I've never had driver problems with it. In fact the only time I have any audio problems at all is in games that have audio issues, like DiRT and GRID's poor 5.1 support for example.