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post #21 of 27
6/18/06 at 7:46pm
I hate Creative's software, I had a Soundblaster Audigy in my old Pentium 4 rig. I finally got tired of Creative's bloatware and tossed the card in my parts bin. I'd also lost my software CD and creative wanted $15 to ship me a new one. Needless to say when they told me that I uttered a string of profanities my mother would have slapped me for. Besides, [H]ard|OCP has been testing to see how much on-board audio draws from your CPU on their motherboard evals for a while and it's been roughly a small 5-10% difference between the benchmark running w/sound and without sound.
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post #22 of 27
6/18/06 at 9:57pm
Just wanted to add myself to the list that fell for this

I never even tried it, hehe, once I found out it was software and lost interest. MP3s sound fine anyways. Plus I'm using the docking station 5.1 output so I don't think it would have even been used except when using the built in sound.
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post #23 of 27
6/18/06 at 10:05pm
Thread Starter 
does dell include the software on a cd if i do a reformat?
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post #24 of 27
6/18/06 at 10:08pm
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Originally Posted by ihaveabu
does dell include the software on a cd if i do a reformat?

Yes, I have an Audigy Advanced MB cd and activation key on back, unopened might I add I suppose it would do the trick.
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post #25 of 27
6/19/06 at 3:41pm
my m1210 does not have that listed as an option that was bought (i bought my M1210 on ebay) but it still came with the audigy CD with a working activation code, i dont get it... i havent played BF2 yet with it but i guess ill see what happens - dont really care because i dont think the guy i bought from paid for it either.
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post #26 of 27
6/19/06 at 4:25pm
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Originally Posted by brinox
my m1210 does not have that listed as an option that was bought (i bought my M1210 on ebay) but it still came with the audigy CD with a working activation code, i dont get it... i havent played BF2 yet with it but i guess ill see what happens - dont really care because i dont think the guy i bought from paid for it either.
Like I said, the only thing it will give you is environmental effects (EAX). You might notice echoing when indoors with EAX enabled in-game, for example. You will likely have a slight performance hit though, since the effects are mostly being handled by the CPU and not a dedicated sound card.
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post #27 of 27
6/26/06 at 5:51pm
I should did some research for that... I did not really care about the sound, if it was not the hardware... definitely... I fell for that shxtty ads then.
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