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  • #16
    SB Live! is the best all around card and rather inexpensive too. Just make sure to disable DOS compatibility to free an IRQ.

    Aureal cards are good for gaming and okay for the rest. Still a very good card.

    Personally, I go with the SB, because I know they work.

    Jammrock

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    PIII 450@something higher, 256 MB RAM, 35 GB on 2 WD Expert drives, Abit Hot Rod UDMA 66 controller, CL 6x DVD, G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, LinkSys Etherfast 10/100, DSI 56k modem, Addtronics 6896A Case w/ a crap load of fans and Dynmat noise dampening in it, MAG DX715T monitor.

    Hi, my name is Jammrock. I'm a computer phreak and an EverSmack addict.
    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
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    • #17
      WOHOO!!! Finally some good news for us Linux users. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=9...21&mode=thread

      Creative is finally opensourceing their drivers so we should see some SBLive drivers within a month, if not sooner.

      And for those with other tastes.
      Aureal is following suit.
      http://www.ga-source.com/all/news/bi...15:44:17.shtml

      So, Adam, I think it is now safe to say that you can get either the SBLive of the MX300.
      (I would still have to lean towards the SBLive myself.)
      Primary System:
      MSI 745 Ultra, AMD 2400+ XP, 1024 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, 3Com 3c905C NIC,
      120GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, 60 GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, Pioneer DVD 105S, BenQ 12x24x40 CDRW, SB Audigy OEM,
      Win XP, MS Intellimouse Optical, 17" Mag 720v2
      Seccondary System:
      Epox 7KXA BIOS 5/22, Athlon 650, 512 MB Crucial 7E PC133 SDRAM, Hercules Prophet 4500 Kyro II, SBLive Value,
      3Com 3c905B-TX NIC, 40 GB IBM UDMA 100 HD, 45X Acer CD-ROM,
      Win XP, MS Wheel Mouse Optical, 15" POS Monitor
      Tertiary system
      Offbrand PII Mobo, PII 350, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, 15GB UDMA66 7200RPM Maxtor HD, USRobotics 10/100 NIC, RedHat Linux 8.0
      Camera: Canon 10D DSLR, Canon 100-400L f4.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon 100 Macro USM Canon 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon Speedlite 200E, tripod, bag, etc.

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      • #18
        I'm quite happy with my Aureal SQ2500 card. It has Aureal's optimized AU8830 Vortex 2 chip which supposedly reduces CPU overhead compared to other Vortex 2 cards. A review I saw somewhere even presented some benchmarks which supported this.

        I love the card's small size, and in a case with just standard cooling and overclocked PIII and G400Max I've never had any temp. related problems.

        No problems with set up, conflicts, etc.

        The reported S/N is 98 db, which is really amazing. The sound with my Klipsch ProMedida's is fantastic.

        A lot of people really like the game bundle too (Draken, Heretic II, and Slave Zero (OEM).

        If you don't need quad, the Turtle Beach Montego II is probably a pretty good, inexpensive choice.

        I've never tried the SB emulation of this card and have it disabled to save the irq. No DOS for me.

        Not sure about LINUX. I use an old SB16 in my LINUX box at work.


        John

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        PIII450 => 504 MHz, Asus P2B, G400MAX, PowerDesk 5.30, Aureal 2500 Vortex2, DirectX 7.0, Adaptec AHA-2940UW and Fireport40 Dual UW SCSI controllers, etc.

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