Originally posted by eilif
eep no game port?
As I have been informed, the Audigy card has a cable connection on the card and it comes with a plate that has the game port on it that takes up another slot. So you can have the gameport or not, your choice. If you look at the picture above of the card itself, you can see the gameport plate next to it with the ribbon cable attatched.
Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
how is the aud2 any better than my built in 7.1 digital?
Again, I will pass on enlightenment I myself recently received. The Audigy cards have hardware buffers, so the CPU isnt constantly buffering your sounds in addition to all its other work. The only onboard sound that is specifically designed to reduce CPU overhead is the nForce sound chipset, but even it lacks hardware buffers. The Audigy is (IMO) the best compromise of performance and cost available to gamers today. I'm sure Skuzzy would back me up on that, since he was the one that educated me