Recommend me a good but affordable sound card for a Dell Dimension e510

[Dutchman1101]

A lightning storm took out my soundcard a few weeks back so I'm looking to replace it. I really know nothing about sound cards so any help would be great. I guess the only stipulation would be it has to be 24bit compatible.

I'm not looking to spend much money so if anyone know a good but affordable one that would be awesome.

[Brian Skalinder]

What's your budget?  For what purposes will you use the soundcard?  Digital transfers?  (in which case you may desire bit-transparency)  Analog transfers?  (in which case you may want an external soundcard)  Digital-out playback?  (in which case it may not matter much)  Analog-out playback?  (in which case you may also want an external card)

[Dutchman1101]

What's your budget?  For what purposes will you use the soundcard?  Digital transfers?  (in which case you may desire bit-transparency)  Analog transfers?  (in which case you may want an external soundcard)  Digital-out playback?  (in which case it may not matter much)  Analog-out playback?  (in which case you may also want an external card)

Wow Brian, I guess I never thought of all that. I'd just be using it for Digital-out playback.

[jerazis]

  100's of flawless digital transfers, and 1,000's of hours playback and I bought it 2 years used.  (The M-Audio delta 1010lt) 200$ new 100$- 150$  used.

Lynx if you want to spend a bit.