Hot! I/O Magic 4 Channel Sound Card for $10 at Compusa B&M (AR)

[goodsunny]

Just went to the local Compusa today to do the TDK CDR deal and see this sound card. It's specially priced at $25 with a $15 I/O Magic rebate. So the total is $10+tax. Seems to be a pretty decent entry level 4 channel sound card. Anybody has any comments?

It's also on the Compusa website, but no mention of price reduction or MIR. YMMV.

 

[Danzilla]

Be careful to keep copies of all the rebate submission stuff. Chances are with IOMagic, you'll have to call them in a couple month in order to get the rebate.

$.02,
D.

 

[huesmann]

Yah, rots of ruck getting your rebate.

 

[FPSguy]

If you have Windows 98 (not SE version), make sure you use the Windows 95 drivers, otherwise you get no hardware accelleration with this card. I have it and it seems fine with the Windows 95 drivers, but it really will work better for you if you have Windows 98SE or above. I sure hope I get that rebate, though. It's worth $10 but for $25 I probably would have bought something else (especially considering all the aggravation it cost me until I tried the Windows 95 drivers).

 

[mindless1]

This seems hot, but what chipset do these use?

 

[FPSguy]

> This seems hot, but what chipset do these use?

They use the ESS Canyon 3D-2LE chipset. See http://www.iomagic.com/support/soundcards/stormsurge/specifications.htm.