Need PCI Express Sound Card

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Need PCI Express Sound Card

I have a pair of Creative Inspire 6.1 (6600) Series Speakers. (the ones with the 3 audio jacks for the surround speakers)

I need a decent sound card that will fit my new shiny Mac Pro. So far I haven't been able to find anything.

Looking for around $100.
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=669&product =17927

Only problem with this one is, I don't think there is any Mac drivers for it.

Any recommendations would be grateful, thanks!

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 16, 2009 9:02 PM

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flommer

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Mar 16, 2009 10:35 PM in response to zynizen

Couple problems..

The only PCIe cards for Mac are pro-level big $
I don't think Creative has ever made a Mac driver
There are Firewire interfaces that will give you multi channel output....

But there are not many applications on the Mac that are coded to use surround sound. About the only thing is DVD player.. No games, iTunes, etc are surround enabled. I've never really understood why this is, but that's the way...

The optical output will stream encoded surround (for DVDs), but whatever you connect it too needs to do the decoding. Most home stereo receivers will do this..

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