SB Audigy Gamer and AMD + VIA

I was originally look at the Santa Cruz, but now I see the Audigy Gamer is nearly the same price plus it has the Advanced EAX features and the firewire port.

My main concern is compatibility, since I run an AMD XP cpu with a Via chipset mobo (Asus A7v266-e). I've heard the Audigy line doesn't work well with Via chipsets, or have I heard wrong?

Or is the Santa Cruz a better card?

-¤ Shut the f*ck up or go AMD ¤-

And the Santa Cruz doesnt have creatives compatibility problems with VIA/AMD combinations either. The audigy is a very very poor choice for you. The SC is a very very good choice.

edit: dont care for your sig.

nVidiot: Message board Troll employed by nVidia to terrorize aTidiots.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by williamc on 05/16/02 02:30 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Not every setup has problems-) but there's been alot....

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the empires state building, along came goblin, wiped the spider out

Philips Acoustic Edge have the best sound quality for sound card that is less than $100.

Ah, thats a twick queztion. (spelling errors done on purpose)

Audigy has cooler effects but they dont always sound realistic and arent always placed well at all. It only seems to work right in the audigy sound demo, heh.

The difference is technically in the "reverb". The Crystal Audio Sensura chipset doesnt have the deep reverb of the Audigy...but its actualy more realistic as the audigy just reverbs everything to hell and back to give the impression that its doing something cool when in fact its NOT. Bottom line, Ghost Recon, debatably the finest audio in a game out there, sounds better on the Santa Cruz / GTXP than the Audigy.

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the empires state building, along came goblin, wiped the spider out<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by williamc on 05/22/02 05:50 PM.</EM></FONT></P>