Audigy 4 mic

Hi,
I would like to buy an Audigy 4 pro card but I need a very low noise mic input. Is A4 Pro really high quality in this field? Now I have Santa Cruz - Turtle Beach, just bought external mic preamp and noise level is absolutely terrible. I wonder if Audigy 4 would help me with this. Also, how much of an advantage it is to have mic pluged into an external box? Does it prevent it from getting extra noise from computer insides and makes it even less noisy? If so, I might get Audigy 2 platinum EX, since it has similar external box.
thanks for any info...

To show my actual noise level problems here is a little clip of noise that my current soundcard makes at about 50% inputs\outputs levels: http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2WXYE20NNRPTO2DHNHCI9ZAP9V
I would somehow need to eradicate as much noise as possible...

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jd990 wrote:
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Message Edited by WoRkZ on <SPAN class=date_text>04-2-2006 <SPAN class=time_text>04:26 PM
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I found this information on Creative KnowledgeBase ..
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