<< the aureal card you ask about....kicks sounblaster lives a**....however you will have harder time installing drivers...and future driver support is not an option as aureal went out of business....I paid 100$ for my 4 channel aureal card ...i believe these to be the same chipsets...and its sounded excellent..in fact..i gave it to a friend cuzz his athlon system kept crashing with a sounblaster live card...so i gave it to him and the crashes vanished...and it sounds great. Now i have this darned s/b live card sittin here and dunno wut to do with it!
BTW i just ordered from these guyz and i will not go into too many details but the service was what i believe to be AWESOME!!! >>
Thanx for the info and driver link! Bought the card an hour ago. =)
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