Please help on which audigy 2 card to buy for use with logic audio plati

Hello, i'm wondering if the audigy 2 zs card is good to use in my home studio setup? I use logic audio platinum and already have a unitor 8 midi interface so i don't think (question)i need a breakoutbox version of the audigy 2. I used to have a audiowork 8 pci soundcard but that always gave me problems when playing a game (at least most games).Hope someone can help me with this since i realy wanna hook up my equipment to my new computer (dell dimension 3000 with onboard sound)Message Edited by amsterdammusic on 2-5-2004 02:03 PM

i would be you and if you can afford go for the macpro (2008 the 2009 seems to have some incompatilities cf. other thread). By experience allow yourself to have some margin, i mean more cpu power (one day you will maybe use heavy plugins or synth instruments from 3th party software) and this is killing the cpu. So more is always better. It takes me more than 6 months (start last year) to setup my macpro to a stable stage and now i am so happy it can runs without any big problem everything i want. (ex i use superior 2 as an internal synth instrument in Logic (not as standalone, to have the maximum control within logic, and i load it as multitrack instrument, it taxes 40 % of a single core - and because of synth instrument, only one core will function, and i can record without problem 2 guitarists (using GTR3.5), the drummer on a e-drum superior 2.0, a bassist with gtr3.5 and a vocal with buss reverb, in low latency mode - buffer 128- the cpu core reach about 80 %, without soft instrument than you have almost no limit cause all your core will be actifs, i mean recording just audio.).
Hope you understand what i mean here..

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