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Creative Labs OEM cards...

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Geshtar

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I've been browsing around and done some searching on pricewatch, newegg, and zipzoomfly, and I cannot seem to find any OEM versions of the Creative Audigy2 ZS cards, which I find very weird, except for the most basic card(no front panels or external boxes, and infact that might have been just a regular audigy). I certainly remember when I got my SB Live Platinum a couple years ago, you could get it in an OEM version that came with everything except the crappy software for a lot cheaper(little did I know it was crappy software when I went and bought the retail box instead =/). I would certainly think some company sold them, but with pricewatch turning up nothing, I am perplexed. Do they really not exist?
 
Well, see.....In order for there to be OEM cards there has to be an OEM that uses said cards.
Does Dell offer the ZS cards?
Does HP/Compaq?
Do you see why there are no OEM AUdigy 2 ZS cards YET?
We can also learn a lesson about this from history.
How long was the Audigy2 on the market before we started to see OEM cards?
IIRC it was about 6 months.
The same thing applied to the Audigy and even the *cough* garbage *cough* Live cards. ;)
Give it time... I am sure they wil manage to release another broken OEM card based on the ZS series.
 
Give it time... I am sure they wil manage to release another broken OEM card based on the ZS series.
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What do you mean by that? Are you saying that the OEM versions are inferior to the hardware in the retail boxes?
 
Originally posted by Geshtar
What do you mean by that? Are you saying that the OEM versions are inferior to the hardware in the retail boxes?
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profit margin on retail boxes are higher than oem cards
 
Originally posted by Geshtar
What do you mean by that?
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It's to bad the search is borked or you I would be more then happy to dig up a few hundred threads to demonstrate how these cards are borked for you. ;)
 
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