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Bastardous Bassist:
Woot's deal today is a sound card.  It's an AuzenTech HDA X-Plosion 7.1 for about $100 (USD) for those who don't want to click on the link.  Is it worth that much, bearing in mind that I will probably be using it for movies more than for games and though I will certainly use it for a number of games, I probably won't use it for very many state-of-the-art games (I don't now, for monetary reasons).  I'm probably going to let it sit around a while until I build a new computer system, and I'll install it in that computer system.  If I buy this, it'll pretty much have to be my only expenditure aside from food, rent and utilities for a reasonable amount of time, so I want to know if I'm making a good decision buying it.

Chesire Cat:
Basically, the only sound card company that supports special 3d sound stuff is Soundblaster, other sound cards might give you nice multi speaker support.  But it is EAX and A3D(or whatever that other company had that SB bought), and many games have been using these since the era of Quake II engine based games.

On the other hand, plenty of other sound cards are competitive in the non gaming aspects of sound cards, this I cant help you with, so ces la vi.

Bastardous Bassist:
Supposedly, that sound card can support EAX, but does it through software, which slows a game's performance.  I don't really mind that much, because I'm not going for tons of FPS.  Unless someone knows of a serious problem that they've heard about this card, then I'm almost sure I'm going to get it.  However, it seems not to be selling out too fast, so I'm going to wait a bit for people to let me know if there are any problems.

Rubby:
Unless you're already running something vastly superior, I'd say buy it. That's a good price for a 7.1 card and there is no harm in picking it up if that's something you can afford.

Solstice:
A3D = Aureal. They made good shit.

Too bad PC audio is dead and has been for years.
All because you can't put sound on a magazine cover.

*Le sigh*

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