First post, by Mindlink
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I recently bought myself an old Pentium MMX 166Mhz machine.
It was advertised as coming with a SB16, but upon arrival I discovered it had only an onboard sound chip. (with no drivers included) I contacted the seller and he told me he forgot to put it in before shipping, so he would send it to me in the mail. In the meantime I rumbled through what was left of my old PC stuff in the garage, and found a SB Live, and a Gamesurround Fortissimo III. While I was waiting for the SB16 to arrive, I got another message from the seller telling me it wasn't actually a Sound Blaster, but just a "SB16 compatible". The card arrived and it turned out to be a Crystal card with an CX4235 chip.
The onboard audio chip was also a Crystal chip, a CS4238b, and the Fortissimo uses a CS4624.
So, which of these four card would be best to use in my machine? I'll primarily be using it for DOS gaming (and some Win 3.11 games/multimedia software), for the time being, though I'll probably install Win95/98 eventually as well.