Hey good idea, if you fry one of these, you lost absolutely nothing. LOL. I'm enjoying my new sound card, it has surround sound and stuff, really much better than my onboard. So perhaps frying it was a good thing. LOL.But, if you go the soundcard route, you should really protect your soundcard with one of these:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.22475
Razor Concepts posted it in another thread. $2.14 with FREE shipping. So... its worth a try.
I prefer the jyetech scope. I still can't get over its accuracy for such a small little thing. Only the Japanese could come up with something like this.