I was thinking about getting a new sound card and putting my old SB Live Platinum in my mother's computer. I would like one that is linux capable so I looked at Creative's new Audigy sound cards but ...

If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.

I am trying to build a new computer (Athlon 1.4ghz, MSI KT7 266Pro-R), and am interested in getting a good sound card. I currently have an ESS 1869 chip el cheapo isa sound card, and obviously would ...