Two sound cards

[Timbob505]

I don't think you can play stuff on both at the same time because in games, mp3 players, etc, you have the option of choosing A specified device to send the outout (sound). I don't think you would have problems installing 2 cards, you'd just be using 1 at a time and that seems pointless unless you do gaming and analog audio recording . If you are just looking for 4 speaker output, just by a 1/8" splitter jack and plug in 2 sets of speakers. Other than that, I don't see any good reason to use 2 soundcards.

Oh wait....maybe you could play mp3s on one card and play a game simultaneously on the other card....might work as long as the cpu is powerful enough and you have enough ram. Try it out, maybe you are the first. Let us know how it turns out. It could be pretty interesting / useful to some. Good luck!

Timbob

[OC Guy]

I have two Compaq sound cards. Their both old and aren't very strong(low watts). I was wondering if I could install them both, and play sound through them AT THE SAME TIME.

[JonmaTifa]

I used to have two sound cards in my system. And if you set it up right in the control pannel, (something like playback device is default or something...) then you can play back multipul sounds at once. Like Mp3's and games, icq and mp3s or games, and you can record and play back at the same time too. but if you have a PCI sound card, it can do all of the same stuff but better.