Sound Card

[Treewyrm]

Personally, I'd look into "Creative" sound cards.

They have been around for a LONG time, in fact a creative sound card was the first sound card I remember having in my very first PC and many, many games had the settings for creative sound cards as default settings.

Awww hell, I still have that monstrous sized SoundBlaster 16 w/SCSI cd-rom port and WaveBlaster daughterboard attached to! It's ISA slot card.

Old Creative cards were really amazing, but then they started making cheap and crappy stuff, offload as much into software, I mean look at this - what the hell?! I would say only few cards they produce today are worthwhile. Previous generation X-Fi cards (like one I suggested a post above).

p.s. A little off-topic but damn it's the nostalgia rush.