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Had the 2nd shortest lifespan out of all my hardware.

Yes I had a dedicated sound card.

SoundBlaster? What was first/shortest?






[Edited by element5, 12/26/2016 2:17:42 PM]

It was this one: Link

The shortest were the mechanical hard drives that my previous laptop ate. Those never lasted beyond a year. to be fair, this was due to a design flaw where the laptop would aggressively stop the hard drive as much as possible to save battery life (which it did but at a severe cost to the hard drive's life).

[Edited by Neo7, 12/26/2016 6:17:14 PM]

What's the reason that the card dropped dead?

It's no longer detected by any motherboards under any operating systems.

I know I haven't used a dedicated sound card in years, since on board has gotten much better than it used to be back in the day. How is that card for you? As I tend to use sound blaster equipment. I might return to going dedicated sound cards.

It was primarily used for music playback. Wasn't the best choice as there are better audio setups. The amplifier was nice.

[Edited by Neo7, 12/27/2016 7:06:22 PM]