looking for a new sound card

[Dorkenstein]

My Hercules messes up alot and half the time the drivers dont load on startup which forces me to keep rebooting. Where can I find one of these Prodigy's I hear so much about? There's also a TB Santa Cruz at my local Circuit City. Thanks.

 

[Schadenfroh]

gaming? music?
what for?

 

[chilled]

Not Prodigy, its Audigy. The Santa Cruz is good as well.

Try newegg.com (and also the search button above)

 

[Dorkenstein]

For gaming and music. And I could have sworn there was a Prodigy card based on VIA's Envy chipset.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
For gaming and music. And I could have sworn there was a Prodigy card based on VIA's Envy chipset.

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btw, this is the card you want, it doesnt eat CPU cycles like the VIA, it has support for EAX4.0, etc.

 

[chilled]

Originally posted by: chilled
Not Prodigy, its Audigy. The Santa Cruz is good as well.

Try newegg.com (and also the search button above)

My bad.....I blame the effects of living in the UK!
Always the last to know about these things in retail!

 

[Dorkenstein]

Thanx Schad. Do you know of any cheaper alternatives?

 

[jpeyton]

If you want a cheap Envy based card, get the $25 Chaintech AV-710

 

[Dorkenstein]

Wow, that's cheap. How badly does that card munch the cpu cycles?

 

[Dorkenstein]

Hmm a review on Newegg.com says the chaintech isn't a gaming card either. Looks like I need an Audigy but I'm not quite prepared to spend that much money.

 

[So]

I'd vote for the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, but if you're willing to spend the $$ on the Audigy, more power to ya. I'm avoiding Crastive b/c of my hatred for their drivers.

 

[Dorkenstein]

That's just it, I don't really want to spring for a Creative but it looks like most of the other options are for music.

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
For gaming and music. And I could have sworn there was a Prodigy card based on VIA's Envy chipset.

There is, It's made by Audiotrak

Prodigy 7.1

 

[Dorkenstein]

Does that one eat up cpu cycles badly?

 

[Dorkenstein]

bump

 

[Algere]

As much as the next Envy based sound card, more or less.

 

[vorlen]

Question If I have an audigy pro with the live drive and then buy a Audigy zs will the live drive work on it or do i have to drop another 180 bucks to get the zs pro?

 

[JackHawksmoor]

If you're going for an Audigy, you might want to consider the Gamer version for around $111. If you want and don't already have a few of those games, it'll work out cheaper than the stand alone card.

 

[Dorkenstein]

Why does the Creative card use less CPU cycles?

 

[Algere]

Audigy has hardware acceleration

Envy (current generation) based cards i.e. M-Audio Revolution, Chaintech AV-710, Audiotrak Prodigy, etc. don't

 

[So]

My santa cruz does fine for gaming and doesn't eat cycles.