Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card
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Customer Review: Killer Card!
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't know what the previous reviewer did wrong, but MY copy of Wizardry8, JK2, Morrowind, DOC, Age Of Empires2, Neverwinter Nights, ....the list goes on (i have nearly all of em), Serious Sam2, UT, Urban Terror- Q3, Aliens Vs. Predators2....get the picture, they all run flawlessly with this card, the person below has a "conflict"- perhaps too many PCI Cards, or a bad driver, or an incorrectly configured device. For owners of Via chipsets this card is a godsend (audigy imcompatibility with "some"- of the Via mobos). No kiddin...I have ALL the titles that the below poster has and about 55 more- no problems with SC Turtle beach. Perhaps you "down below" are not very techically adept- probably something very simple. ... By the way---the best speakers in the world are the Klipch Pro Media's (5.1)...and...they are NOT digital.....dude...they are ANALOG. Nuff said. Peace. Get the Turtle Beach Santa Cruise for gaming!Customer Review: HORRIBLE!
Summary: 1 Stars
I decided to get this card when i heard TechTV's The ScreenSavers talking about sound cards. They said the SoundBlaster Live (Which is what i have) can cause slowdown in games. Patrick (the co-host) said to ditch the SBLive and go for a Turtle Beach sound card. Taking this advice, i just bought this.... I got home, put it in, installed the drivers, restarted and launched Winamp3. I started one of my favorite songs, and the AVS.
The song had skips in the beggining and sounded horrible. The mid level was quieter then my SBLive, and it threw off the sound quality. I shut down, ripped out the card, and put everything back in the box. I'm taking everything back ..., ....
Pros
Umm... for sake of putting something here, easy install
Cons
Sounded horrible
Customer Review: I'll NEVER buy another Creative Card
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! I love this card.Easy to install. Setup on XP was no problem at all.
Deep, rich sound (Naked Music has never sounded so good). Played Counter-Strike, footsteps were crisp and clear.
I recently purchased a Creative Audigy card; after install somewhat random system crashes plauged my heretofore fine system. I call the crashes somewhat random because they occurred randomly while playing counter-strike and always when I tried to play sound from two different programs.
Driver updates didn't help at all.
The first thing I did before writing this review was to check those old problems.
All gone, simply with a Turtle Beach install.
Problem solved and with better sound! Can't beat it. Great card, great price. I love it.
Customer Review: "The Best"
Summary: 5 Stars
I love really good equipment- and this card is the best overall. It has better driver support for more games- a better user interface than creatives cards ( I have a SB live also) and has a smaller CPU usage footprint...and it's cheaper. It's an ABSOLUTE steal- yes It's better that SB live value- LIVE!- and IMHO- better than ALL audigy cards for gaming- it's gives less trouble and runs better on most games. 5.1/6.1 sound- versa jack- sound options out he WAZOO! I built a new rig with MSI 415d motherboard (Nvida chipset) AMD athalon xp2100 OCZ PC 2700, Coolermaster ALUM. case, HCC_001 CM HS, and by my choice (and i had the money to but Audigy) I plugged a new Santa cruise in this baby- ...and...it rocks.Customer Review: Off to a great start
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been looking into audio cards for a few monthes on Amazon. This board always rated highly and I noticed other boards had problems. Circuit City had it on sale for $39.99 and I told my wife to get it for me for Christmas.
I had the card installed in minutes, drivers as well. I proceeded to play one of my favorite cd's: Metallica's S&M (with the San Francisco Symphony). It was incredible. My wife and I then played the Genesis: The Way We Walk dvd and it sounded excellent. I can't wait to load DOOM3, the real reason I had to upgrade in the first place.
I have a 3-pc LABTEC (satellites & sub) and they sound fantastic.
As stated: we're off to a good start.