How much for a used Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card?

[Ryan]

Since price checks aren't allowed in the FS/T forums, I thought I would ask here. I am looking into buying a new or used Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard, and I need to know if some of these prices sound right: Forums - $65 (used) , Fleabay - $75 (new). Do those prices seem good?

Also, if any of you have the Santa Cruz, do you like it? What do you think of it?

 

[Wingznut]

It's an excellent sound card.

Buy.com has them for $70.

 

[Johnnie]

how do they compare to a sb live?? will they work on win2k ?

 

[Howard]

Better sound quality than the Live! Works for Windows 2000, drivers may be occasionally flaky. I might be wrong.

 

[Wingznut]

Way better than the Live. Especially in gaming.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I read they had more cpu overhead though. It's not a factor on faster cpu's but on that old p2 it migh take a noticeable chunk of your cpu cycles that a sblive would not. heard they were great cards though.

 

[Johnnie]

i may dump my sb live.. how about for listening to music.. ??

 

[Ryan]

it won't be for my currrent computer. I am putting it in a new budget system (that has good sound ) I am hoping to build soon.

 

[Ryan]

OK, the only drivers for Win2k are Beta drivers I wonder if they're any good?

 

[Pariah]

The drivers are fine.

 

[Ryan]

alright!

 

[demenion]

Does a3d work fine in win2k? i wanna switch and replace my ageing mx300

 

[Wingznut]

I used to own a SBLive and an MX300, and I can safely say that (imho) the SC does positional audio as good (maybe better) than a MX300, and much much better than a SBLive.