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    Philips PSC805 Aurilium USB External 5.1 Sound Card

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by gustav213, Jul 19, 2007.

  1. gustav213

    gustav213 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was wondering what you guys thought about this e xternal sound card, are there any better ones I found this one for 30 something bucks so I think its a good deal. Do you recommend any other ones??? Not to expensive though.
     
    gustav213, Jul 19, 2007
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    mschmitt5 Newbie

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    I've had one of these for four or five years. I used it on my desktop, currently it's on my office computer. (It takes a little bit of CPU overhead, more than PCI soundcards do) I don't think it's still made or supported, but it's been great, very versatile and trouble-free. It's got a nice feature that it detects headphones, mikes, etc, so all I need to do is plug the headphone into the unit, which is right next to the monitor, and the speakers switch off.

    For my notebook, however, I use the tiny Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Amigo, also a USB device. It's cheap, seems as good as the old Aurilium, and is the size of a car key. And it doesn't seem to take any CPU overhead.
     
    mschmitt5, Jul 21, 2007
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