Which Sound Card?

["R.A.Fletcher" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Having tried a mod tracker program on Windows today I discovered 
that the sound quality deteriorated with the amount of changes on 
the display. I wonder if the server client nature of X compounds this 
problem under linux thus causing my MP3 problems, but thats not 
really the point of this email.

I did read that there are some motherboards, if they have onboard 
video and sound, obviously mine included, do not allocate sufficient 
bus resources for the sound, or its shared with the video, or 
something. This explains the problem. The solution, I hope, is to 
install a new soundcard. Im not a big sound fan, I just want 
something that wont reduce the quaility for no good reason. 
Obviously i want it to work under Linux. I have SuSE 6.3 so alsa 
and the oss registered isa drivers.

What should I buy. (Think cheap)  
_oOO-Richard Fletcher-OOo_
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