I just bought a new desktop (with Windows 7 home premium) that has a small tower....it has all the "bells and whistles" in terms of power that I want, but I probably may have excluded (because of the room inside the tower) the opportunity to install the M-Audio 2496 (or any other internal) sound card (although I don't know that for sure). At any rate, on my old computer I had the Soundblaster Audigy sound card connected to a mixer. I want to now replace both those with something that's even better (particular for recording purposes). So I'm thinking an external thingy would do fine. Anyone have a recommendation? I'm hoping for something around no more than a couple hundred bucks...

I would greatly appreciate any info regarding such....thanks,
cchallum