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Sound Blaster Audigy or Turtle Beach Santa Cruz?

I have the Santa Cruz with a 2 speaker setup and it's pretty good. I think it depends on what OS you're running, which speakers you're planning to use, and what you're going to do with your computer (games, DVDs, MP3s). I might have read somewhere that there are driver issues with the Audigy and Windows XP but I'm not too sure. Anyway, hope this helps.
 
I've had them both and both are good cards. If you have a mobo that is KT-133a, use the TB. If you have a 266a get the Audigy. I am using WinXP on an Epox 8kha+ with an Audigy. The audio is excellent to say the least, I'm very happy with it. Go OEM, best bang for the buck!

GPJ
 


<< I've had them both and both are good cards. If you have a mobo that is KT-133a, use the TB. If you have a 266a get the Audigy. I am using WinXP on an Epox 8kha+ with an Audigy. The audio is excellent to say the least, I'm very happy with it. Go OEM, best bang for the buck!

GPJ >>



i agree with Mucker here. I have used the Audigy on a VIA board with XP and drivers were fine, but I kept getting the pops and crackles so bought a Santa Cruz instead, which works great.

Sound quality wise I would say the Audigy, but others will disagree. The Audigy also has many more ports.
 
I also have the SB Audigy in WinXP and Sound quality is excellent ,driver wise I had no problems and setup was simple enough,gaming wise the Audigy has the lowest CPU usage of any Sound card,I don`t get had any pops or cracks with my VIA board(Epox 8KHA+).


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Mucker or Mem or anyone else w/a 8kha+ and audigy-
Just curious as to which pci slot you have your audigy in on your 8kha+. I just got my audigy in yesterday and hopefully will be putting it in my eopx mobo later today. I have heard that sound cards are better suited to go into slot one or three due to possible irq conflicts. What is your take on this?

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de8212 mine is in PCI Slot 2 which`s counting from AGP slot side,btw don`t forget to disable onboard sound in BIOS,I also disabled game port address and midi port address as well .
 
i got the audigy, i have pops and cracks with my K7S5A. If you read anandtech's FAQ in the general hardware forums, it addresses the issue and says its because your speakers cant handle the 96KHz sampling. I have FPS 2000 digital, so i dunno. i just set the sampling rate down to 48Khz and its fine
 
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