Will Cilicon do to attach a fan?

[MM]

Depends on what you want out of it... for 3D games Vortex2 can't be beat... for professional audio editing SB Live (not value) can't be beat in the _consumer_ market. SB live val is a good card, but doesn't get anywhere near Vortex2 3d positioning. It's simply Creative... like Epson, 3COM, Adaptec, Microsoft, Intel, you know...

------------------
P2c-300a/450, 192MB PC125 SDRAM, Quantum Fireball Plus KA 18.2GB 7200rpm, Panasonic 7502B x4/x8 Ultra SCSI CD-R, Tekram DC-390U2W Ultra2Wide SCSI controller, Diamond MX300 (Vortex2), Creative Labs AWE64 Gold Sound Blaster, A-Trend Voodoo II 12MB, Matrox Millennium II 4MB (to be replaced with G400Max), 19" Hitachi SuperScan 752 and some other fancy stuff

[motub]

Well, Steve, I'd say yes, but then you couldn't go to Alton Towers with the guys next week--have fun, btw--and I wouldn't want you to miss Oblivion...! Plus I'd have to pony up for the medical bills (or at least send flowers), and I'm broke.

Doesn't that crap under your desk stink?

Matt, is that what you call support? Geez, with friends like you, etc., etc....

Thank you MM for a calm voice of reason. I couldn't figure out how to reasonably state my fundamental resistance to PC hardware hegemonies...

------------------
Holly

[This message has been edited by motub (edited 07-30-99).]

[M Ragsdale]

Holly, you phucking wid me? w3ll l3tz go!...just kidding, I am just giving you a hard time. I didn't know you were going to get your panties in a bunch. Just slow down, take a deep breath, pick your wedgie, hehehehe.

------------------
486 sx25, 4MB, Hercules Dynamite Pro VLB, SB16, PIO mode 2 145MB Hard drive, Win 3.1

[ALBPM]

Nice one motub, you look simply marvelous in asbestos. Heheh....MX300....just marvelous.

Steve, you better hope that Hunsow doesn't read about your desk. Oh never mind, he'll just stop picking on me.

And dj stay off that Cilicon stuff. It'll give you really bad flashbacks
dude...Bwahahahah

Hey, Mump Bap this!!

[ALBPM]

I just installed an SB Live value in my new system. It's GREAT!!!! More features than I will ever use.

Buy.com has them cheap $50.95
buy.com/comp/dept.asp?DeptID=11301

Paul

[M Ragsdale]

Yeah like paul said...and be sure to stay away from Powder Sniff I heard it can really mess up your display...and you may have to flash your bios. (flashback for all of you pauls out there)

Matt

------------------
486 sx25, 4MB, Hercules Dynamite Pro VLB, SB16, PIO mode 2 145MB Hard drive, Win 3.1

[motub]

oooch, ooo ahhch [hop, hop]...ow ow ow ow ow!...damn, a little slow getting that asbestos suit on, gotta practice that...right, now where's my Official Matrox Burn Cream, Floor Wax and Dessert Topping..?

....aw, crumbs, I'm still convincing MichaelA to sell it to me on that other thread! brb.. ssss.. hah ah hah..ow....

-----------
Holly

[ALBPM]

motub, you go girl!!! Your definetly PERKY under PRESSURE....LOL

Paul

[Wombat]

I've never heard an MX300 card, but one of the reasons I bought a SB (AWE64, no Live yet), is because they kept the Line Out clean. No pre-amp. That really matters to me, since noise generated by my old sound card would be amplified by my stereo, and give me a supersonic headache.
Does the MX300 have a clean Line Out, no amp, and separate from the speakers?

[chuck]

Note the new sound card in my sig.
(chuck pulls muscle patting self on back )
chuck


------------------
(erstwhile cjolley) celery 333@500mz 2.2V, Abit BH6, 128meg@cas2 gh, 10gig IBM 7200rpm UltraStar, Princton EO75, SB Live Value, V3 2000 PCI (still waiting on my MAX!)

[rubank]

If you want sound you can go with whatever(they all make sound),
but if you want music you go for Yamaha SW1000XG.

And Holly, all sound is analog.

rubank

[ALBPM]

So Chuck, Is the SB Live! COOL or WHAT!!!!!

Mump Bap This!!

[motub]

Wombat, I'll check, but if you see Flangor or Jammrock around, you might ask one of them (I think they're more likely to know wtf you're talking about , and they're both familiar with the MX300, to judge by their posts on the aforementioned thread forums.gagames.com/forums/Forum58/HTML/000248.html in 'General Hardware')

If all sound is analog, rubank, what's the function of spdif (and the proprietary digital DIN)? I thought they provide digital output (as opposed to the analog output of the RCA (or whatever they are) plugs. No need for the asbestos suit, just asking (plus I'm still using it).

Just keep it up, Paul. I'll give you something to bump map (grr, grrrrr!) !!

I'm not dealing well with being outflanked by you guys, I guess....sigh. S'alright, I'll have my day....

-------------
Holly,
who is in far too bad a mood to give chuck the number of her massage therapist (as Judy Tenuta would say, "Suffer!")

[rubank]

Holly,

when actually HEAR digital sound, you might need yet another kind of therapist

rubank

[Jorden]

Guys Guys Guys,

Seems Holly needs a little help here, and I'm siding with her

We're both zipped up in our asbestos suits, and we can take you on alive... or dead... your choice.

My simple soundcard btw is a SB 32 PnP, and it's only still sitting there because this way I can record mp3's, mods and xms on my stereo !! The SB 128 and Live I had temporarily couldn't handle it.

Glancing to my right, Holly, ready to fight them??

Jorden, bitten allready

P.S: Steve, no matter how we do it, you're coming along to Alton Towers and we're just going to LOOK at the Oblivion

[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 08-01-99).]