- Feb 22, 2006
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am using a really old dual p3 700 mhz 1 GB ram system at home for surfing. it used to work really great till I installed a sound card in it. It didn't have one before.
Got this one from newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829130001
problem is that the sound cards using up so much cpu and memory that the PC crawls to a halt. things get back to normal if I disable the sound card and kill mixer.exe
I think if i get a sound card which does a majority of the processing by itself thing will be much better.
which one would be the bare minimum to purchase so that it doesn't take a toll on my PC. am not looking to spend more than $20.
any suggesstions?
Got this one from newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829130001
problem is that the sound cards using up so much cpu and memory that the PC crawls to a halt. things get back to normal if I disable the sound card and kill mixer.exe
I think if i get a sound card which does a majority of the processing by itself thing will be much better.
which one would be the bare minimum to purchase so that it doesn't take a toll on my PC. am not looking to spend more than $20.
any suggesstions?