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QueBert

QueBert

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My NF2's onboard sound is pissing me the hell off, it gets static and cuts out in a lot of games after 10-20 minutes.

looking for a replacement, I don't like Creative cards at all. Interested in the VIA Envy but I haven't seen any cards released with that chip yet? I play games, but I don't need super fancy EAX 2.0 HD or whatever.

wanna stay away from cards with poor XP support. any suggestions?
 
My NF2's onboard sound is pissing me the hell off, it gets static and cuts out in a lot of games after 10-20 minutes. looking for a replacement, I don't like Creative cards at all. Interested in the VIA Envy but I haven't seen any cards released with that chip yet?
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NF2 onboard sound is working great for me,however getting back to your problem you can get the Chaintech VIA ENVY 24PT Sound Card if you are looking for Envy sound.
link. .

Don`t overlook the Hercules range as well,link .

Btw Pete(Insane3D) has a Chaintech Envy soundcard so PM him for feedback etc.
 
Originally posted by: QueBert
My NF2's onboard sound is pissing me the hell off, it gets static and cuts out in a lot of games after 10-20 minutes.

looking for a replacement, I don't like Creative cards at all. Interested in the VIA Envy but I haven't seen any cards released with that chip yet? I play games, but I don't need super fancy EAX 2.0 HD or whatever.

wanna stay away from cards with poor XP support. any suggestions?
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Do you want to explain why you dont like the best cards out there?
 
Originally posted by: airfoil
Originally posted by: QueBert
My NF2's onboard sound is pissing me the hell off, it gets static and cuts out in a lot of games after 10-20 minutes.

looking for a replacement, I don't like Creative cards at all. Interested in the VIA Envy but I haven't seen any cards released with that chip yet? I play games, but I don't need super fancy EAX 2.0 HD or whatever.

wanna stay away from cards with poor XP support. any suggestions?
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Do you want to explain why you dont like the best cards out there?
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Best compaired to?? All Creative has going for it is the name, which everyone knows. And EAX for games. A3D 2.0 was far better here, but sadly, the Creative Beast squashed Aureal 🙁 For music and general use Creative makes very uninspired cards. I do play games, but I have a 2.1 speaker setup so EAX is pointless for me.

let me start with poor sound quality compaired to any other good card, My Gravis Ultrasound Max (RIP) & Aureal (RIP) both produced better sound then anything Creative could throw together.

latency, anyone who uses a PC to make music will curse the name "Creative" the cards have about 50x the latency of a decent Turtle Beach. I believe the new Live 2 cards are in the hundred's of MS, which makes a big difference when you're trying to work in a real time audio enviorment.

also they have HORRIBLE drivers, I know I could get a Live card and use the KX-Project drivers, but from the small amount of use I've had with those on my neighbors card, it doesn't fix the latency problem (helps it somewhat tho)


I asked this question initally as somebody who had an original 8 bit SB when they dropped, and about 10 different cards since. But, I'm out of the loop the last card I bought was a Gametheater XP and when I bought it, the drivers were HORRIBLE in XP so I took it back (have they gotten any better?)

I would go without sound before I bought a Creative card again, but that's just me 🙂
 
santa cruz all the way. great card and nice and simple control panel that does what you need and nothing more. also it has can mirror front channels to the rear without CMSS type effects.

i'm using an audigy now, but if you don't like em, tbsc is the way to go.


-Vivan
 
My NF2's onboard sound is pissing me the hell off, it gets static and cuts out in a lot of games after 10-20 minutes.
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QueBert,don`t forget to try the new nForce drivers that have been released,it might help your problem.
 
chaintech av-710. just make sure to use output 7/8 (HQ 2channel output), they use higher quality dac compared to output1/2. feedback has been overwhelmingly good, especially considering its only $21 shipped from newegg. some say the card is comparable to m-audio revo which easily destroys TBSC (not in gaming, but you dont need fancy 3d sound so..)
 
Sounds like bashing Creative is just as hip as bashing video cards. While I agree that Creative is rather scummy in some of their tactics, they still make a good product that has some nice features:

[*]ONLY card to support DVD-Audio (this sold me)
[*]Highest S/N ratio of any consumer card, save the M-Audio Revo
[*]Nice control panels with bass redirection, adjustments for time delay, individual channel adjustments
[*]Fastest card for games

These might not be worth it to you, but of all the cards I researched, this was the only one that did everything I wanted.
 
Originally posted by: beatle
Sounds like bashing Creative is just as hip as bashing video cards. While I agree that Creative is rather scummy in some of their tactics, they still make a good product that has some nice features:

[*]ONLY card to support DVD-Audio (this sold me)
[*]Highest S/N ratio of any consumer card, save the M-Audio Revo
[*]Nice control panels with bass redirection, adjustments for time delay, individual channel adjustments
[*]Fastest card for games

These might not be worth it to you, but of all the cards I researched, this was the only one that did everything I wanted.
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I'd agree that the Audigy 2 is the best all around sound card available... BUT there are some annoying issues, which revolve around their crappy software.

If you touch any of those fancy bass redirect, time delay, or channel adjustments, you lose 24bit\96khz playback. You have to reset to default to get them back.

Also, there's a niggling WinDVD issue where the Audigy 2's Dolby Digital decoding gets out of sync by a fraction of a second. I think that's probably a WinDVD problem though.
 
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