Wacoms and soundcards

[FrEnZy]

Hay guys, I'm after two bits of advice.

1st - I'm looking at buying a new wacom. Namely a Wacom Intuos4 - Medium.

Cheapest well known place is around the Ã,£300 mark, however as a student I can get education discount at some places, but I've heard of few of these places.

THIS Is one place I was looking at, however I've never head of them. You guys know anywhere that might offer a good deal on this?

2nd - My soundcard is a useless piece of fried scrotum.

After hours of messing around with it Oldie managed to get it apparently working, till I discovered it mutes the DVD drive and I can't watch films. Pretty big issue for me at uni tbh.

Short of it is I could do with a recommendation for a reasonable soundcard, Windows 7 64-bit compatible.

Cheers guys.

[Tutonic]

I can reccommend a Creative soundcard. They've really got their s**t together recently and sorted their 64-bit drivers out, nice and stable now.

I'm using the incredibly badly named 'F4tal1ty' card atm and it's very nice, but I'd go for one of the cheaper lower-end sound blasters if you're not interested in running surround-sound off it.

[OldBloke]

Soundcard - Does your MBD support both PCI and PCIe?

[OldBloke]

I can reccommend a Creative soundcard. They've really got their s**t together recently and sorted their 64-bit drivers out, nice and stable now.

Hmmm :g:

I checked here and not one of the products listed even mentions Windows 7 :eyebrow:

[A Twig]

http://www.tablet4u.co.uk/products/en/intuos4-tablets.html

http://eu.shop.wacom.eu/Education_cat_68972.html

any good?

[Tutonic]

Hmmm :g:

I checked here and not one of the products listed even mentions Windows 7 :eyebrow:

They've got W7 drivers, both 32 and 64 bit flavours, available for download in their support section.

[T-Bag]

I got a Bamboo Medium from Amazon I think. Might be worth seeing if they have one tucked away somewhere. Though I think with more specialist stuff you're likely to have to go out new new and exciting shops that specialise more.

[FrEnZy]

Yea motherboard supports both PCI and PCI-E

Don't really want to get another creative, seeing as that's the make I've got and its farked.

As for the Wacom, I've seen sites like those, but they don't seem entirely professional and I worry that they're not gonna be on the level.

Yea I've seen the bamboo's, but they've not got the the pressure sensitivity and level of detail I need.

[A Twig]

wacom.eu is the wacom official site!?

[T-Bag]

Yea motherboard supports both PCI and PCI-E

Don't really want to get another creative, seeing as that's the make I've got and its farked.

As for the Wacom, I've seen sites like those, but they don't seem entirely professional and I worry that they're not gonna be on the level.

Yea I've seen the bamboo's, but they've not got the the pressure sensitivity and level of detail I need.

I meant if they sell the bamboo they might have the Intuos or Cintique.

As for a sound card I haven't bothered with one for years. Onboard is pretty good these days. Creative put me off by completely ignoring their customers for years. Open source drivers were loads better. Project KX etc. but I don't think the hardware justifies the troublesome drivers.

[kregoron]

i know quite a few that got Auzentechs X-fi based cards, and all say their great, and planning to buy one when i order my next rig..

ITs based on the Creative X-fi chip, but their own cards, and they got proper drivers from what i hear

[FrEnZy]

Cheers guys.
 
The offical Wacom site is about the same as the others I've found, the cheaper site looks iffy to me, saw it before and don't really trust it.

[lionheart]

I have recently bought an Asus Xonar and am very pleased with it, would def recommend if you dont fancy the Creative route.