Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 61.00 shipped

[undone]

Link

That link gives you free shipping and 10% off. Choose PC Accessories on the left hand side and then sound and video. I think this is the retail box.

 

[Drylock]

If you are sick of Creative Labs crummy support then do yourself a favor and jump on this deal. Turtle beach has had excellent driver support all along on this card. It was one of the few companies that let you download beta drivers form their site when Windows XP was still called Whistler. The sound is excellent compatibility is excellent and it does true Dolby Digital out to my Sony receiver over the coaxial output. The only thing that would make me give this card up is when TB makes the follow up that upconverts mp3s to Dolby Digital and not just DVDs.

 

[taserT]

Drylock...this card has a digital coaxil out, right....but what other ouputs does it have....optical? I guess i need to do a search to see if i can find out the inputs and outputs of this card!

edit: all i can find so far is it has a line-in port and a line-out port. I'm wondering if it has any digital inputs (i don't think so) ...actually i'd like to know what the exact audio inputs and outputs of the card...anyone know? thanks

 

[DavemanUT]

Not crapping, but it was a few $ cheaper at Dell as of last nite.
Still a deal though.
D.C.

 

[Drylock]

Taser it does not have an optical out only an RCA type coaxial digital but it does output high quality true 5.1 Dolby Digital/DTS for me on dvds and two channel digital out on everything else. My receiver switches to pro logic for mp3s and such and it sounds great. I would not call it a great card for a musician since it does not have a digital in unfortunately. But for a gamer that watches dvds and wants crystal clear sound this is it. I bought the Hercules Theater XP card before this one and it does have all the fancy ins and outs but it WOULD NOT under any circumstances output true Dolby Digital to my receiver no matter how much tech support tried to help me fix it. So I returned it and got the Santa Cruz since I had good luck with and old Montego card from them.

 

[ghouldini]

Isn't the version at Dell a "tweaked" for Dell systems retail card?

They also have an OEM or refurb for less if they aren't out.