For $35 as a max budget, I don't think you're going to find much even in the used market that will be suitable, or an upgrade over the factory chips.

I'd look at making the factory card work to do what you need. I don't recommend ASIO4ALL except in cases where there's no other alternative. My experience is that it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It would NOT work on my laptop with the factory sound chips. Others have said it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Using MME, the usual factory default driver, I can run BB & RB on my lappy just fine. The problem occurs when I go to RB and it's using a combination of real tracks (wave audio) and synth parts. The latency with the synth parts really messes you up.

When working on the lappy, I never had a problem, even with MME as the driver, when I wanted to render a track to audio. It always rendered the wave file.

As far as sound quality.... no matter if you have the cheapest sound card or a high end external interface...digital is digital. The digital quality is going to be exactly the same. There might be a noticeable difference in sound quality due to the audio circuits, but the underlying digital quality will be digital perfection. Your speakers and the amplifiers for them will be the major player in the quality you hear.

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