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Well i know that feeling...
I switched from the MX300 to the Live! about two months ago...
To be honest, the Live! is clearly supperior as far as drivers and driver-features are concerned (super...

well having 2 s/c in one computer is one thing. using them both at the same time in the same game or whatever another...
if u have 2 soundcards in a computer u can choose what soundcard u wish to...

stay away from anything that is diamond...

diamond has closed its doors, probably no driver support and ess does not release reference drivers for thier chips meaning there's no driver support in...

http://www.cdmag.com/Home/home.html?article=/articles/029/138/santa_cruz_review.html
http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=santacruz&page=1

ok two reviews i found for the...

If u live in europe check out the sonic fury from videologic or if not the santa cruz from turtle beach. these are the same cards (except of the bundle). but are not distributed in the same area.
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Well as far as i know S/PDIF is digital. this means that u will have just one connector. if ur boxes have digital in then ok, but if not u need a decoder or something... since i'm not into audio that...

the mx300 IS nearly the same card than the sq2500.
the mx400 is a compleately different soundcard. it uses the ess canyon3d soundchip... it does not support a3d 2.0 needless to say a3d 3.0 (which...

well this is how i freed up a recource for my mx300 soundblaster emulation on my MSI K7PRO.

i set every pci-slot to an irq that was not 5. this way the bios should free the irq. after that u have...

Hogiee:
If u ask me that would be more a downgrade than an upgrade... i guess he would be disappointed by the poor 3d audio...
this would be the last thing to do... there are better sound cards out...

well u could try to add a passive cooler of course but i have never heared of temperature problems of a sound card. is the system itself sool (case temperature) ???
if u want to put a cooler on ur...

The soundblaster live works perfecty for the amd processors... well ok not perfectly at all but there are no problems that u wouldnt have with an intel system...
the amd in ur system is surely not...

well i'd like to help u but i need some more information...

what os do u use ??? Win ME or Win98 ???
what chipset is ur mobo based on ??? VIA or AMD ???

Well i have heared that some problems...

They wont do that...

diamond will be shut down by s3 as far as i have heared. they canceled sound card and video card business. they didnt support the mx300 in the past so why should they do it...

I dont want to destroy all ur hopes but :
yamaha canceled its sound business. i guess they wont develop any reference drivers for thier chips.
as far as i know a yamaha chip was used on the...

well diablo2 is supposed to support a3d, eax and directsound3d.

but unfortunately it seems like a3d was never properly implemented in the game. it simply doesnt work. eax should work with the...

The aureal drivers are not made for the sq2500 sound card but for the vortex2 chip...

i wont get any advantaged from the new card. i guess it will give u the same problems the mx300 gave u (since...

how do u mean it does not recognize it ???
u mean it does not show up at the post ???
does it work under windows...
a little more info would be good... ...

well its an avarage setup... its nice, but there are better ones...
as far as the boxes are concered:
go out at a big shop where u can listen to many boxes... u will be able to see the difference...

Try to find a quite pci slot...
have u placed ur sound card near the video card?? if so try an other pci slot since this is a problem that appears very often...

also try to move ur boxes aways...

Depends if u are really into great sound...
if u love high quality sound then stay away from all these avarage creative things.
I would recommen any vortex2 card since thier sound in games is not...

I have heared the VideoLogic SoniceFury or something like that should be a kickass card... it has some extra features to support the 5.1 systems very well... i dont know exactly but take a look at...

well if u still use any sort of diamond-drivers, the 2048 drivers will be a whole new world for u. A3D 3.0, reverb, EAX and some other cool new features...
just select the multifunktion parent and...

stay away from buying the fortissimo. It's just the same situation like the aureal situation now. Yamaha, whose chips are used on the fortissimo quit the sound-market. they do not produce any...

There's still the Mx400 and the guillemot MaxiSound Fourtissimo out there. i hope that both cards are a success since otherwise there are no other soundcards out there that are worth to pay some...

Forget about the MX300.
The SQ2500 has the same features and has a faster soundchip on it which uses less cpu time.

yes, the a3d 2.0 / 3.0 is more cpu dependant than eax. But this is because it...