carlitoswayec :
RazerZ :
Price and sound fidelity? Look no further than a good pair of stereo headphones. Attatch a mic to them and you will be set. Most gaming headsets are nothing more than a normal pair of stereo headphones with a mic attached to them. The problem is that most of them are greatly overpriced for what you get.
Do you have a budget for the headset? Are you ok with the idea of using headphones and attaching a mic to them? Will sound leakage be a problem?
This sounds interesting. How would that work out, or how would I "attach" a mic to a headphone? Sound leakage can be annoying, I'd like to reduce it as much as possible.
Most headsets come with 3.5 mm (1 for mic, 1 for sound), which you plug into an included usb sound card. I would like to use the ASUS Xonar U7 instead.
@Kenneth Barker suggested a good pair of headsets, but I really would not like to not to spend so much money $200 is a too much for my budget, I am thinking to spend up to $100
Thanks!
For true 7.1 surround. You have very little options and they would have a number of plugins that would pretty much fill your sound card up with 3.5mm plugins for 7.1 (It takes them all)
All other "7.1" headsets I have seen are all simulated by software, and the vast majority of those are connected via USB (not using your sound card at all)
a standard headset (even one with a separate Mic) would plug into your sound card, but only be Stereo, or 2.1 as that is all a single stereo 3.5mm jack can pass through. That is what those 2 black rings on a 3.5mm jack do. That is the divider for the stereos sound channel. There are some 3.5mm cables that that 3 rings. However I think that third ring is a special channel for very low quality (low res) video passthrough. Sort of like the Analog (yellow, Red,White) cables we all grew up with for our old game consoles and VCRs.
Just keep that in mind if you are looking to get something that will actually use your dedicated sound card. You will need to get the hardware that will use it.
Best of luck