Audigy or Turtle Beach???

[JzAr]

If you look at my sig below you'll notice that I have a Dragon+ which comes with the VIA KT266A Chipset. I had to take my SB512 out because it would make my Computer freeze. Well I want to upgrade and I plan on either getting a Audigy or a Turtle Beach. Does anyone know if the Creative/VIA problem is fixed with the Audigy? Or should I go with the Turtle Beach? Which has the best sound for the money? Thanx

 

[VaTechHokies]

I know that creative has identified the problem...but I am not sure if a definite fix has been made available to the public. I read a thread the other day w/ a link to an article about this. Try the search page and search the forums and see if you can find the thread. If I find it I'll let you know

 

[NASsoccer]

If you look at my sig below you'll notice that I have a Dragon+ which comes with the VIA KT266A Chipset. I had to take my SB512 out because it would make my Computer freeze. Well I want to upgrade and I plan on either getting a Audigy or a Turtle Beach. Does anyone know if the Creative/VIA problem is fixed with the Audigy? Or should I go with the Turtle Beach? Which has the best sound for the money? Thanx

i think the chances of the bug happening are hit or miss really. to different sound blaster's and no bug. But now i got the game theater and i am even happier. If you are worried that you might have a prob then i would say don't buy a soundblaster.

 

[Angry]

Doesnt the Dragon+ have the best onboard sound?

 

[JzAr]

So clearly the audigy has better sound quality than the Turtle Beach, right? I think I'll give it a try and if it doesn't work I'll take it back and get the Turtle Beach. Thnx for the help.

 

[druidelder]

It depends on what you want to do with your sound card. If it's just for playback, they're pretty much equivalent (though some gamers prefer the turtle beach, but that's pretty much just a prefrence). If you want to do recording, then the sound blaster has the upper hand.

 

[WyrmMaster]

Im happy with my Turtle Beach. A freind of mine has an Audigy, and i cant tell the difference, but then i have better speakers than he has.

 

[NASsoccer]

So clearly the audigy has better sound quality than the Turtle Beach, right? I think I'll give it a try and if it doesn't work I'll take it back and get the Turtle Beach. Thnx for the help.

that will be the best way if you can try it out. Although speakers make a difference as everyone has said. So if you don't think the speakers are the greatest and don't plan on upgrading then by all means get the turtle beach- it is the best bang for the buck of all the sound cards IMO.

 

[JzAr]

On the reply about the onboard audio: I updated the driver and when I try to play games under EAX(which its supposed to support) it sounds like crap. Not only that but my jacks are all messed up. My mic and front speaker jacks are defective. I always have to be messing with them to get them to work.

 

[Gilgamesh]

i have the forbiden configuraion and i'm runing very stable and with no problems whatsoever. Still dont know why some people has that problem.
GF2 and SB Live usually gives conlficts on kt266a boards but i don't hav such a problem. May be depends on the mb manufacture's

 

[Warlord2]

I have a Turtle Beach and love it. (use to mostly for games)

my friend also has a Turtle Beach and makes digital music or whatever you call it were they use program like "acid" to make a mp3. Anyways he loves it for that too.

 

[Cooler666]

I have Turtle beach connected to a really good Sony amplifier with 5 speakers, and it kicks ***

 

[WeaponX]

Audigy all the way. I love Creative and will never go to anything else. It works fine with my rig.

 

[Lou Natic]

I have a Soyo Dragon + as well, and I'm not having any trouble with my Audigy Gamer. It works well, but here's alittle advice to avoid possible troubles:

Put the Audigy in PCI slot 4 or 5.

For some reason they don't play well together if they're on PCI slots 1-3. I don't know if it's because of forced IRQ sharing or the proximity to the PCI bus, but it definately seems to have trouble. On slots 4-5 it seems like it's far enough away to not mess with anything.

Just remember though, you can have the best card in the world but if your speakers aren't up to the task, you'll never know.

 

[donny_paycheck]

I have an Audigy on my KR7A (KT266A) and it works awesome, but I also have a Live on my K7T266 (KT266A also) and both work well.