I bought a Santa Cruz about two weeks ago for my video editing rig. The card is as good as advertised. I had no problems with the installation and have had no problems with it co-existing with an RT2000, a NIC and a 2940UW scsi card. It also has something I have never seen in a consumer card, the ability to use six dicreet outputs with programs like Vegas or Nuendo. Great news for music apps or maybe trying some 5.1 mixes.
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It is pretty nice, isn't it? With a surround rig it's awesome.
I see PCAVTech.com has rated it at the top of their non-Gold card list. Gold level cards are expensive hardware, so having a consumer card even come close is something.
Gold cards get a 5 rating while the TBSC got a 7 for both analog and digital. The SBLive gets an 11 analog, 12 digital.
http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/compare/index.htm
Dr. Mordrid
[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 16 April 2001).]
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Glad you like yours...However...
Combat flight Sim II crashes after a few minutes on the TB SC. Usually sound just stops, and then a few seconds later I get a BSOD with fatal exception errors referring to the SC driver. I have to turn off direct sound acceleration to prevent the errors.
I also do a lot of Divx conversion from DVD (MPEG-4 vid, MP3 sound). These just plain lock up the system. Turning off Direct sound does not help. Before you say it might be something else, I can reinstall my Aureal SQ2500 and everything works great. Unfortunetely, I dual boot to W2k, so I need something that works in both OS's.
About ready to dump the SC...will make someone a deal...
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