Diamond DT-688 sound card?

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Does anyone know if this is a decent sound card?

I've been having driver issues with my SB Live X-Gamer 5.1 - AMD Athlon XP2100+ w/ Abit KX7-333 and XP Pro SP-1.

The Creative software always says the drivers aren't installed properly.

I looked at the DT-688 and its a 6 channel board, compat w/ EAX and A3D.

I need a sound card for MP3s and video games. I looked at the Audigy and its just a big waste of money for my application. I only have 2 speakers and sensitive ears.

 

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Audio Chip:


Diamond DT-688 Audio Processor
Support Microsoft® DirectSound® and DirectMusic Hardware acceleration
Support Distributed DMA for legacy DMAC (8237)emulation
HRTF 3D positional audio, supporting DirectSound 3D and A3D interface

PCI Bus Master for PCI Audio

32bit PCI Bus Master, PCI 2.1/PCI 2.2 compliant

DOS Legacy Mode Support:

Support DOS compatible modes: DDMA under Windows 95/98
OPL3, MP3, Sound Blaster Pro? and Windows Sound System compatible

I/O Interfaces:
Front-Out, Rear-Out, Center and LFE, Line-in, MIC-in and Game/MIDI port
CD Audio, AUX, and TAD Connector

Driver Supports:

Windows 95/98/98SE
Windows ME
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP

Application Software:

Multi-Channel Speaker Teaster
WinDVD2000 (Multi-Channel Version)(Optional)
Powerful Audio Rack (CD/MIDI/WAV/MP3 VCD and Karaoke Player)


Picture of DT-688

 

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