Sound Card On G5 1.8dp, Sound Card Advice Options

[unexpectedaaron]

I just bought a G5 Dual Processor Mac, and am in the market for a sound card.

I've searched and browsed the forums looking for advice, and found many topics on what cards don't work (such as the M-Audio and Delta-44) with the new G5's, but not much on what does work.

I don't need much from my sound card. Mostly I want to have an additional sound output port, so I can use it with Live or DJ software so I can save the built in port for cueing sounds. Maybe later it might be nice to have a midi input, or a surroud sound outport, but that's not essential for now.

I'm looking for something inexpensive, under $200.

With my last system I tried a usb adapter, but man that thing blows and is always cutting out. Hoping that an internal card would work better.

Any advice?

[_T2k_]

guys.  you cannot fit a normal old style pci card into the slots of a G5 no matter if it has pci-x or not.  the slot is different.

Good morning - that's what we're talking about.

the dual 2 ghz G5 are pci-x compliant.

No, it's not simply compliant but it's even has few PCI-X slots - just like my DP G5 1.8GHz.
But still none of them will take the oldschool 3V PCI cards.

if you want a good card for not a lot of money get the delta 44.  150 dollars us and works great.  get a patchbay, a nice mic/instrument preamp and your set.

Whereas I believe you, $150 worth device usually lacks couple of important stuf like sync/smpte etc...