Soundcards?

[DaGoose]

Looking for a new soundcard that is DirectX 7.0 compliant. Did a search through the archives and found that the SB LIVE cards were recommended, but someone kept mentioning a soundcard that was made by Santa Cruz ? Can someone point me in the right direction for some info on these cards ?

 

[Specialist]

The Sound Blaster Live has the Best compatibily in the business. If you get a Soundcard get one from Creative preferably SB live, all the programs and games are optimized for creative soundcards as is Direct X .
I have the PCI 128 But I'm not highly satisfied with it.
I would give it a 6 or 7 out of 10

 

[Mem]

Another vote for SBlive,you get excellent driver support & it`s the gaming standard.

 

[Imported]

'Nother vote for SBLive. I've been happy with it ever since it fixed my PC.

 

[sandorski]

Live's are good cards, but if the Santa Cruz has as good 3d sound as a Vortex2, I'd go with that(I don't know if it does though).

 

[DaGoose]

Do you have a URL to the Santa Cruz site?

 

[duragezic]

Generally SB Live! cards are the best, especially since Aurel is gone. The Turtle Beach sound cards are pretty good too.

 

[rickn]

SB Live for sure. While Turtle Beach makes good hardware, their driver updates are absolutely pathetic. I had the Tropez, and it was good hardware, but their support was aweful. The Montego/II was a good card, but that was only because Aureal was the one supplying the drivers

 

[RagingGuardian]

The Santa Cruz puts the Live to shame and everyone who owned both knows that. The Live is a great card but a bit dated and badly in need of a complete overhaul. Maybe if Creative incorporates A3D into the hardware of the next Live revision we'd have the ultimate card.

BTW, Santa Cruz is the name of the card and not the company. The card is made by Turtle Beach.

I fail to see your logic. AMD once had supply problems and poor performing cpus. Does that still hold true right now?

The card is just released so the drivers are no where near the maturity of the Live series but I can asure you that they are pretty compliant and stable.

 

[DaGoose]

How is the support for Win2000 in the drivers? I saw some beta drivers on Turtle Beach's website.

 

[RagingGuardian]

Actually I don't run Win2000 but I've heard forum members saying that it works under Win2000. Try a search and see what you can come up with.

 

[aUt0eXebat]

SB Live! are the best out there!

 

[Remedy]

I have the turtle beach Santa Cruz and i've played with the sb live! and i can honestly say the santa cruz aint no slouch to a3d. Jim warren from anandtech wrote me telling me to watch the site for an upcoming review of the card.

 

[DaGoose]

Any word on when?

 

[JellyBaby]

I hope soon as I may be in the market for a new sound solution soon. My trusty MX300 is great but no driver updates are forthcoming. It's only a matter of time before newer games and DirectX forget about the MX300.