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Lance   04-11-2005 at 02:53:51 AM

I know the Turtle beach Santa Cruz is hard to find so i wonder if any of you have tried the other Turtle Beach cards?Catalina?Rivera? and what your thoughts of them are?
I'm looking for a sub 50 dollar card to go with the
Logitech X-530 5.1 speakers im about to order they will be used mostly for music,dvd,and light gaming.
Here is the Turtle Beach link.
Thanks for any input :)
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/soundcards/


Lance

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jihiggs   04-11-2005 at 10:14:11 PM
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unless you are going to be doing some high quality recording you dont need anyhthing better than what comes onboard with your motherboard.

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the_Prisoner   04-11-2005 at 11:26:28 PM
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Turtle Beach are good sound cards.

Mobo wise, it might depend on what you have.

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Lance   04-12-2005 at 02:45:59 AM
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Thanks for the replies.
My onboard sound sucks to be frank.
AC97 Codes Alc658 Realtek AC97 audio.
My mobo is a Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 v2.0 i875P

Lance

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cookingfrags   04-12-2005 at 06:59:21 AM
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you'll probably be happy with a Turtle Beach. but i'd just be wary about the watching DVDs part. i'm pretty sure Dolby can be done in software and passed through the card, it just doesn't have a hardware Dolby spec.

since you'll only be doing light gaming, you can probably do without newer EAX specs.

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Macel   04-12-2005 at 07:56:21 PM
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Be careful about the other turtle beach cards, as they rely heavily on the CPU to do some of the sound processing... Which equates to less CPU for your software. If you're a gamer I would stay away from them, an audigy would probably be wiser (unfortunately). If you're not a gamer, they could be worth it as turtle beach sound quality is top notch. Don't settle for motherboard sound in any case - you CAN tell the difference, and even a cheapo sound card improves on that.

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cookingfrags   04-17-2005 at 09:25:40 AM
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also, be aware that Turtle Beach hasn't (and i think won't) release any new drivers for the Santa Cruz and possibly the other lines of sound cards. so if it doesnt install well with OEM drivers and the latest driver, or you were hoping for some new features every once in a while...look else where.

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Lance   04-17-2005 at 03:40:40 PM
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Thanks cookingfrags.

Lance

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