nF2 "regular" board + TB Santa Cruz or nF2 board w/Soundstorm?

[catnap1972]

Given the choice, which would you choose for an analog setup...would I be better off keeping the TB Santa Cruz I already have and just getting a "regular" nF2 board (Abit NF7 non-S, for example), or unload the Santa Cruz and get an nF2 board w/Soundstorm (NF7-S, etc.)? I can only choose one option or the other as I have a limited amount of $ available.

Any opinions?

 

[pspada]

the turtle beach Santa Cruz does not properly operate under Windows XP.

 

[classy]

WEll I don't know about the XP thing. I have SC in my other machine, but its a 2k pro, but I would say the TB would be better.

 

[pspada]

the Santa Cruz supports W2k, but not XP.

 

[McArra]

I vote Soundstorm.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: pspada
the Santa Cruz supports W2k, but not XP.

The driver at TBSC's ftp doesn't support XP? It looks like it does in the description:

sc_4161s.zip 21306952 04-26-02 WINDOWS 2000, XP, ME | WDM v.4161

Link

 

[Cyco]

I've had absolutely no problems with my TBSC + XP.

 

[Goi]

Hmm, I had my TBSC on XP too before my motherboard died, it was working just fine...

pspada do you have any reason or grounds to your claim on incompatibility?

 

[catnap1972]

Originally posted by: Goi
Hmm, I had my TBSC on XP too before my motherboard died, it was working just fine...

I've had mine for close to 3 years and have never had a problem with it (on either 98 or XP).

As to the original question, I ended up going with the regular NF7...only issue I can think of would be that game port resources problem which is easily rectified (disable them altogether through XP)

 

[StormRider]

I had problems with some games (Asheron's Call) with the Turtle Beach under XP that did not occur under Win98SE.