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Gaming Soundcard

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Antimatter3009

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I'm looking for a sound card primarily for gaming and listening to winamp. My speakers are the lowest end 5.1's by Creative so with shitty speakers quality isn't that important. Anyways, my budget is about $75 and so far I've looked at the Audigy 2 and the Audigy LS. I was leaning towards the Audigy 2 just because it's newer (better EAX support?). Anyways, any recommendations on these or others?
 
I'd like to know too, since I have a set of 2.0 Creative Speakers.

Currently, my 6 years old Creative SB Live! Value sound card works fine and dandy. what would be the advantage of Audigy 2 on ultra low end speakers?
 
The Audigy LS is in fact newer, but has less features. If you don't care about stuff like ASIO, soundfonts, dvd-audio or true 24/96, the Audigy LS is cheaper, so it might be a better bet.

The only other thing is that creative has made two chips, the EMU10k1 and the EMU10k2. The EMU10k2, also known as the Audigy chip, and used on the Audigy, Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 ZS, is supposed to have four times the processing power of the original EMU10k1, according to their advertising, enabling it to run four environments simultaneously as is needed by EAX 3 & 4. However, the Audigy LS uses a modified version of the old EMU10k1 chip (as last seen on the Soundblaster Live) and thus I doubt its performance would be as good using EAX. I haven't seen any direct comparisons however so I'm not sure how much that would be.
 
Sorry to say, but that's no 10kx-based chip action happening on the Audigy LS. Check the product specs, the CA0106-DAT part is an entirely different beast.
 
You sure about that? According to this site (in French, so use a translator if you don't speak it) the CA-106 is nothing but another version of the EMU10k1. One of the best reviews of the Audigy LS that I've seen.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/486/page1.html

EDIT: Of course, once I take the time to read the review again, I realize that my whole point is mute: in fps the LS does better than the Audigy and worse than the Audigy 2 according to the article.
 
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