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When I was in the market for a 3D video card for GPL, there were a few poor
choices and one or two that were  a "can't miss" situation.

I chose the 8 meg Hercules Thriller and have been very pleased with it. My
purchase was entirely based on what more experienced folk posted on the
subject. Thanks to all of you who spend the time to help us newbies!

Now, I'm thinking of upgrading my soundcard. Two basic questions;

 1)  Are there any certifiable stinkers I should avoid?

 2)  Is there a "can't miss" card that a lot of you use?

Thanks to all, any thoughts or comments, long or short are welcome.

I have a SB-Live! Value.  I can't comment on whether or not it's a "can't
miss" but it works for me in both GPL and NR99.  I can't complain.

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    I got a SB PCI 128, and if you're like me and not a huge audophile, and can't tell much of a difference in sound cars, I can tell the difference between this and a 16 (DUH LOL) but I probably couldn't tell ya anything between the 128 and Live! and best of all it's not all that expensive.  I recommend getting it packaged with the Cambridge Soundworks speakers, I'm lookin all over for the 4 speaker set of those little magical speakers.

    Jon

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Probably what you want to do, look at games you own or might buy in the
future, and see what they use for 3D sound.  A3D is the API for the Vortex
cards, and EAX for the SB Live.  That may sway you a bit towards one or the
other.  Very much like the graphics cards, these are the Voodoo 2 and TNT of
the sound cards, both are good.

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Go #43 and #44!

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I returned an excellent pair of Advents from Powered Partners with a
BOOMing sub for that reason, only it powered down every... oh... 15
SECONDS.  Talk about an annoying feature.  I read of a fix somewhere
that involved opening the sub and doing some soldering, but I don't
know of the site.  Maybe a search would turn up something.  You could
try to contact Creative for info on the schematics, but I wouldn't get
any high hopes that route...

Why a company would not include an option to turn this off, I don't
understand, but with Powered Partners and me, it was their loss.
Another problem that could be easily rectified if companies would just
make their product dev team sit down and USE the "features" that they
come up with!  "Oh, I just LOVE that thud that precedes every sound
the computer makes -- can we make it louder?" ;)

Sorry to rant, I loved the sound of those things, and I wanted to keep
them.

Good Luck!

Brett

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:22:16 -0600, "Chris Schletter"

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 moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away" - anonymous
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Go #43 and #44!

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