Good cheap basic sound card recommendations?

[crazyray]

How about the Turtle Beach Montego II PCI-A3D for $20? Any recommendations/advice welcome. (This is my first DIY computer, made mostly from inherited parts, including a Celeron 466 cpu.)

[SoopaStar]

I would go with the basic Creative Labs sound blaster 16 or awe64 value. pricewatch has them both for under $20.

Paul

[neo_otyugh]

if you can scroung up $20 more you can get a soundblaster live value and it is a world above a sb16...

[Ygor]

I've seen the sb-live value at $30, but didn't check on shipping charges.

Try www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com) if you haven't already.

[shadow]

Yup, Creative pci16 or Creative Ensoniq pci.
Pretty much the same card and both work well.

[wyvrn]

Soundblaster Live value is the best value in sound cards right now. The Diamond MX300 is a nice one too. Hey sound cards are cheap, spend the extra 20 bucks and get a current one.

[jad1097]

Check out BBA's recommendation in this thread. (http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/009081.html)