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aufan17   08-01-2002 at 01:52:06 AM

It is being built Saturday. Here are the specs.

Pentium 4 - 2.26GHz
Kingston 512MB of 1066MHz RDRAM
ASUS P4T533-C Motherboard
Antec PLUS 660B case
Maxtor 60GB Hard Drive
PNY Geforce 4 Ti4200(OC'ed to 4400 speed)
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Black NEC FE771 17" Monitor
Linksys 10/100 Network Card
Sony 52X CDROM
Logitech PS2 Optical Mouse
Keytronic keyboard

I'll be getting a DVDROM drive in a few months.

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Crashman   08-01-2002 at 03:19:52 AM
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I like everything but the sound card. I owned the Live Platinum 5.1 for a while and ditched it for the Aureal SQ2500.

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Chuck232   08-01-2002 at 04:20:46 AM
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The Audigy and Turtle Beach Santa Cruz are also pretty good. I don't know how the Aureal is though.

:lol: Finally, I get a capitalized title!! WOOT!! :lol:

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Pettytheft   08-01-2002 at 04:29:16 AM
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If your dropping that much dough you might as well upgrade to the Audigy if you listen to music more than gaming (although it's pretty good for gaming as well) or if your looking for a really good gaming card try Phillips Acoustic Edge(only take this card if you have good surround speakers!). Just dont go for a Live! card they were okay a few years ago and most of the bugs have been worked out but the sound is just not as good as some of the newer cards. I know they are only $20 but your system is far from a budget system so why cut corners on your sound? Then again if you dont listen to music much or game much then by all means keep the live. They are only like $20-25 bucks now. Even then I would still prefer the cheap Hercules MuseXL card which is going for $20 I believe.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

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Crashman   08-01-2002 at 04:42:50 AM
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Aureal is so good Creative spent millions of dollars in legal manuvers to bankrupt the company, because they feared it would kill the sales of the Live! series. Then they spent a bunch more money buying the company out from under the previous high bidder (Guillimot) to prevent the technology from every being used again. Then they hired an investigative team to find all independant driver developers and shut them down, effectively sealing the drivers. Microsoft is now the only company with legal rights to develope new drivers based on the origninal driver code.

I estimate it cost Creative over $10m to remove this technology from the market. But the Win98SE drivers were almost perfect, and I use Win98SE! To bad many of you guys will never know what a true high fidelity music+gaming card sounds like, or the awesome realism of A3D 2.0.

The company has been bankrupt since shortly after paying off their lawyers for those frivolous lawsuits (which they won) Legal fees bankrupted them about 2 years ago, but the technology is so impressive that many hardcore gamers still use these cards, and many hardcore game developers continue to provide A3D 2.0 support on new games.

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Pettytheft   08-01-2002 at 05:43:33 AM
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Yep, good ol patent law. I remember how my old company would offer major cash out to anyone who could come up with a valid patent idea. It sucks what Creative did but every company does this. Instead of paying 1M in royalties Aureal lost thier company. Sad thing about it all is that they won the case! But instead of defending thier Vortex chips they made the mistake of attacking the actual patent validity. When it was plain and simple to see that thier chips did not contain all of the neccesary components for it to infringe on Creatives patent (Actually it was E-MU's patent which creative aquired through a purchase). Ahh well, one part shady buisness tactics and one part bungling on Aureal's part.

Crash if your looking for some really impressive positional sound try the Phillips Acoustic Edge card. Once again only if you have good speakers. I guarentee you will be very impressed running QIII with Qsound. I prefer this card (for gaming) to my Audigy. I'm not even a audiophile and I clearly noticed the difference between Qsound and EAX.

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Crashman   08-01-2002 at 06:55:05 AM
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I've actually heard of qsound comparing favorably to A3D 2.0, but I love this card! It helps that nothing has actually beaten this card yet in comparisons. Damn Creative put us back YEARS in sound technology though, this card is 2 years old and still unbeaten!

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tersagun   08-01-2002 at 11:55:04 PM
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You are a pure capitalist man! Where did u get that money?! :-). Why do u want your computer rated, u already gaved thousands of dollars for it!

Banshee; The best ever produced card in price/performance!

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