Um, this is kinda needless, I got the sbpro 2 working in my native dos machine.

I really like the Sound Blaster Pro 2. My favourite card from Creative.

I need to do a comparrision I have an sb16 sb pro 2 and an sb LIVE!

The live is more useful for W98. But the SB16 is also very popular and useful.

Lol, I have the sblive in an xp machine, the sb16 in my windows98 build and the sbpro in my ms-dos 486 build.

of course you can, just adjust the hardware ressources properly. see my sig for multiple soundcards in one system (all are working under win98 for each system)

For some cards it is better to have more than one. Some cards become buggy when you ask them to perform too many tasks at the same time so splitting the workload between two or more cards eliminates a lot of issues. Also, there is no such thing as a "perfect" sound card. There were too many competing standards that were incompatible with each other so you'll never find one card that does it all. You'll need multiple cards to cover all the popular standards that existed.

that would be cool if you could SLI two sound cards together and get 20 more sounds per second on games.

DOOM before soundcard sli:
78.6 sounds per second

DOOM after soundcard sli
95.4 sounds per second

DMX doesn't work that way. Sound in Doom is always software mixed. SLI'ing sound cards, even in theory, won't help that.

Wait, so if i have 3x CT2230 (I have 3 SB16's) in my PC it will improve sound performance?

Can any one explain a bit?

No you won't.

No, sorry I was joking but that would be awesome if it were possible.

Good, i was ultra confused. 😀

I've got sb32 and sblive! in win98 PC, works flawless. live! has really clear and pure sound, while sb32 provides authentic MIDI and stuff. Control panel => Mullimedia to switch.

In my Dual MMX box, I have a CMI8330 for hosting the XR385, and an AWE64 Gold for everything else.

My 486 has a GUS, SBPro2, and MPU-IPC-T & MT-32, the place is like sound card city!