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  1. December 26th, 2005, 01:11 PM #1
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    Sound card question

    Hello everyone! I would like to know what benifits a Sound Blaster Audigy has over a Sound Blaster Live. I was thinking of upgrading in the near future.
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    -Workstation1: AMD64 3400+; 1gb RAM; 360GB Hdd space; GeForce FX5500; SB Live! 24-bit audio;WinXP Pro SP2
    -Workstation2: PentiumIII 800 Coppermine; 384MB RAM; 36 & 9gb Ultra 160 HDD's; Matrox G400 Dual Head; Yamaha DS1 audio; Win2k Pro SP4
    -Workstation3: PentiumIII 800 Coppermine; 384MB RAM; 80GB HDD; GeForce MX4000; SB Live! Basic audio; Win2k Pro SP4
    -Laptop: Pentium M 1.66GHz; 512MB RAM; 27GB HDD;
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    In my opinion, not all that much. I have a Live! Platinum on one of my PC's and an Audigy2 Platinum on the other, and to be perfectly honest, I really can't tell the difference between them, sound quality wise. I think the Audigy had some big improvements for music production though, if you're into that sort of thing.

    From all the reviews that I've read the new SoundBlaster X-Fi cards, are in a whole different league. If you want to upgrade, that would probably be a far better choice than the Audigy.
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    Are there any good websites out there that sell the X-Fi cards? I'd like to price one. I think that for right now, I'll stick with my SB Live. I don't do any music production, and I'm only running a 2.1 speaker setup. When I get a house in the future, I want to get a 7.1 setup. I heard that's pretty cool for playing games.
    My Network:
    -Workstation1: AMD64 3400+; 1gb RAM; 360GB Hdd space; GeForce FX5500; SB Live! 24-bit audio;WinXP Pro SP2
    -Workstation2: PentiumIII 800 Coppermine; 384MB RAM; 36 & 9gb Ultra 160 HDD's; Matrox G400 Dual Head; Yamaha DS1 audio; Win2k Pro SP4
    -Workstation3: PentiumIII 800 Coppermine; 384MB RAM; 80GB HDD; GeForce MX4000; SB Live! Basic audio; Win2k Pro SP4
    -Laptop: Pentium M 1.66GHz; 512MB RAM; 27GB HDD;
    Win XP Pro SP2
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  4. December 26th, 2005, 08:09 PM #4
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    Here you go, for the US:

    http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Ca...sp?Category=36

    and for the UK, if anyone else is interested:

    http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/kl.asp?bn=10230


    I'm going to get one myself for my next build
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