ISA sound card or NIC?

[JackAndCoke]

i have 1 ISA slot left in my comp but don't have any sound should i go with a sound blaster PCI and get a ISA NIC(do they even make them with an RJ-45 port anymore?)or vise versa? thx...

[darkmallard]

For sound, use the ISA slot. For the NIC card, use the PCI clot. Unless you are a multimedia production company looking for a high-end sound processor, you are not going to notice a difference in sound quality. PCI is just convenient for sound cards since most motherboards have done away with the ISA slot. Many companies make 10Mbps ISA NIC cards (Ethernet with RJ-45). I have one in an older system. You will see 100Mbps NIC cards only for the PCI slot.

[This message has been edited by darkmallard (edited 02-08-2001).]

[dosmastr]

unless you are a hardcore gamer,
i would say the same as mallard, i have seen isa NICs pull 15kbps, but i have seen PCI NICs on the same network pull 37kbps ( i believe it was a 128isdn network but i'm not certain)

good luck
Dosmastr