Santa Cruz Sound Card

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I'm getting ready to order a soundcard from Newegg. I read
at Newegg that one user had problems with the Santa Cruz
sound card not working with a Gigabyte GA-8IK1100
motherboard. I'm wanting to add the card to a Gigabyte
GA-8IKNXP. Has anyone else had success or problems with
this sound card? I'd try something from Creative but
reviews on their cards seem even worse than the Turtle Beach
card.

Motherboard: GA-8KNXP
Sound Card: VOYETRA TURTLE BEACH SANTA CRUZ - OEM
Speakers: Cambridge SoundWorks MegaWorks 213 speakers
 
Davek said:
I'm getting ready to order a soundcard from Newegg. I read
at Newegg that one user had problems with the Santa Cruz
sound card not working with a Gigabyte GA-8IK1100
motherboard. I'm wanting to add the card to a Gigabyte
GA-8IKNXP. Has anyone else had success or problems with
this sound card? I'd try something from Creative but
reviews on their cards seem even worse than the Turtle Beach
card.
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I can't speak to the Gigabyte but I've run the Santa Cruz on the Asus A7N8X
and the Asus P4PE. It worked perfect in both boards. Personally, I like
the Santa Cruz better than the Audigy 2 which I also ran in both boxes....
 
Well, the user reviews of that Hercules card at www.newegg.com state that
it's 100X better than the next best creative shitblaster card. And it also
comes with an optical out. Every reviewer on their site gave it 5 stars.
I've had one of every creative card ever made pretty much. In all different
types of systems and they all sucked. Most had very annoying random popping
and clicking noises. Some would BSoD they systems.

I would say try anything else before you test your luck with a soundblaster.

Nate
 
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