Which Sound card is good for Ace's High?

[Jag34]

I need help. My sound Blaster PCI 128 started going bad on me about 4 months ago. I would lose sound, or get a loud static noise, or I would lose all sounds but my engine sound. All this happening while playing AH. Wouldn't happen in any other programs. (But does happen in other games, Panzer Commander, Steel Beast, Medal Of Honor). So I finally yanked it out and replaced it with a old sound card (thanks Snoopy) until I can get a new one.

I've been looking at Creative Labs and Turtle Beach sound cards. I want to spend only about $70 on a new card.  The three cards are:
Creative Labs: SB Live 5.1 or Creative Labs: AudigyMP3
or
Turtle Beach:  Santa Cruz W/Digital Signal Processor 6 channel, Discrete 5.1

What is your oppinion on these cards. Or do you have any other ideals that have work great for gamers?

Thanks

Jag34, Tiger Squad

MB: ABIT KT7A W/AMD 1333 TB overclock to 1400 MHz
512MB of SDRAM PC133
Win98SE
GF 2TI 64MB of DDR ram
Philips rhythmic Edge PSC702 ( backup sound card for now)
Power supple is Antec 440watt
Direct X 9.0
All drivers are updated

Next month I'm going to start getting parts to build a new system.

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
AMD XP ?
512mg of DDR RAM ?
GF4 4600 or ATI 9000, 9700
Sound card ?
WinXP Pro

?: not sure what make or model
any ideals would be greatly Appreciate:D

Thanks

[Siaf__csf]

You don't need a soundcard with the nforce2 board.

It has one of the best available soundcards built in the board.
Spending money to a separate one would be totally mad.

[whels]

if u want a seperate sound card then your onboard 1,  i like my Audigy2 sound card.


whels

Originally posted by Jag34
I need help. My sound Blaster PCI 128 started going bad on me about 4 months ago. I would lose sound, or get a loud static noise, or I would lose all sounds but my engine sound. All this happening while playing AH. Wouldn't happen in any other programs. (But does happen in other games, Panzer Commander, Steel Beast, Medal Of Honor). So I finally yanked it out and replaced it with a old sound card (thanks Snoopy) until I can get a new one.

I've been looking at Creative Labs and Turtle Beach sound cards. I want to spend only about $70 on a new card.  The three cards are:
Creative Labs: SB Live 5.1 or Creative Labs: AudigyMP3
or
Turtle Beach:  Santa Cruz W/Digital Signal Processor 6 channel, Discrete 5.1

What is your oppinion on these cards. Or do you have any other ideals that have work great for gamers?

Thanks

Jag34, Tiger Squad

MB: ABIT KT7A W/AMD 1333 TB overclock to 1400 MHz
512MB of SDRAM PC133
Win98SE
GF 2TI 64MB of DDR ram
Philips rhythmic Edge PSC702 ( backup sound card for now)
Power supple is Antec 440watt
Direct X 9.0
All drivers are updated

Next month I'm going to start getting parts to build a new system.

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
AMD XP ?
512mg of DDR RAM ?
GF4 4600 or ATI 9000, 9700
Sound card ?
WinXP Pro

?: not sure what make or model
any ideals would be greatly Appreciate:D

Thanks

[Animal]

ditto what Siaf said.

[bloom25]

The sound built onto the A7N8X deluxe is as good as the Audigy 2.

[capt. apathy]

what is the major differences (if any) between the audigy 1 & 2?

any reason to seriously consider upgrading as long as the audigy 1 is working?

[BenDover]

it can have 7.1 output instead of 5.1


I think i'll stick with my audigy 1