Yea Danny the price for this is extremely good.The features as far as ports etc far out-way any other of the pricier machines. My friend has a Turion II and it's really very fast with BIAB. The SATA port is awesome & for me the almost unheard of Express Slot which leads to your Question.
I use an Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Card at present. It's a standard Type II 32 bit PCMCIA PC Card. I don't use the Creative drivers though. I use KX drivers. The KX drivers give me 8 separate outs from RB to my mixer as well as lets me use the card as a reverb unit.Very powerful. I wanted to continue this way. The closest thing to it is M-Audio's USB 8x8 with built in reverb. Very nice BUT $500.


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