Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card by Creative
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Digital camera reviews of Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card
Digital camera Review: Worked, Happy and Now with the Music
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything in life should be this simple.
If you want a basic card for your basic sound look no further. I'm not going to bother you with detailed tripe because I really can't hear the difference and if you are playing 128 mp3s you won't ether.
We plugged it in, loaded the software and she ran from the get go. Darn happy and come to think of it we have never had a Creative Lap product that we had to shoot.
One thing, see if you can buy one used. Save some money folks.
Good luck and don't forget as Red Green says, "if the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy".
Mike
Digital camera Review: Worth Every Penny
Summary: 5 Stars
This sound card and its software package are a steal at this price. The sound and versatility are outstanding. Highly RecommendedDigital camera Review: card's just wonderful, drivers suck in XP
Summary: 3 Stars
If you can get 6.1 in a game your do'n good, it sounds great. That is IF you can get even 4.1. Mostly this card reverts back to it's primitive 2.1 speaker state(even though I have a 6.1 speaker SET from creative ITSELF!). When playing games, two out of three will revert the sound card drivers back to 2.1. In windows 98 SE this is not a problem in XPPro it is a major one. Games that revert back include Star Trek Bridge Commander, Dungeon Siege(a microsoft "designed for XP" game), Hidden evil(most Star Trek games in fact), Fellowship of the Ring, System Shock2 (with EAX enabled), Ultima 9(EAX enabled) and most of the others I am too tired to find and referrence right now. In fact the only games that play in more than 2.1 sound(EAX) are Neverwinter Nights and most Bioware Infinity titles. That's funny becasue everyone knocks Infinity Engine, but it must have something going for it to work a nit-picky sound card such as this in 6.1 EAX. Everything else gamewise(EA, Dreamscape, Sirtech, ect) doesn't work at all. I have heard others complain about this and say Winamp can rectify the problem, it does not... Don't bother with the 2ZX 7.1, it's nothing special either and is just as bad. Try a Herc or Phillips.Doood! It's Creative!
so what?
Digital camera Review: fabulous sound but watch out...
Summary: 4 Stars
this is probably one of the best sound cards you'll come across. great sound and great features. but watch out. for certain motherboard-sound card combinations (like intel, for instance), this card suffers from a "sqeal of death". every now and then a high pitched sqeal is emitted from the card and the computer freezes requiring a reboot. this occurs frequently and is very irritating. the problem is said to be with the software drivers so make sure this problem is fixed before buying this card.
Digital camera Review: well worth every cent
Summary: 5 Stars
bought this card about a month ago and finally installed it on an hp 9995 with windows xp.....piece of cake to do...installed the card into computer and then software....had NO PROBLEMS AT ALL....the software disabled my built in sound card that was not removeable....the sound is awesome this card is well worth the money you will not be dissapointed at all.they should install these cards in the computers when they are built....