What chipset does your motherboard have? What is the brand and model of the motherboard?

Gigabyte K8VM800M VIA chipset VT8237 & K8M800

Vortex supports A3D 1.0 but so do loads of other soundcards (like the SBLive!)
Vortex2 supports A3D 2.0 and is the only card that does.

That's in Windows, In dos both will act exactly the same

Thanks chinny22

There is also Vortex Advantage which sounds like the cutdown budget chipset but is actually a midtier card chip betwen 1 & 2.

Thanks appiah4. Oh ok, I'm looking at a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 on ebay, I assume that has an authentic chipset?

It's probably the best one 🤣 😁

DrSpock233 wrote on 2020-01-16, 08:36:

Thanks appiah4. Oh ok, I'm looking at a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 on ebay, I assume that has an authentic chipset?

It's one of the best known Aureal 2 cards. How much are you looking to pay for one? Locally I have an indefinite supply of these for about $17 a piece.

Out of interest: what makes the MX300 better than other Aureal2 cards? And how would it compare to say the Turtle Beach Montego II (that I also hear good things about)?

dionb wrote on 2020-01-16, 09:29:

Out of interest: what makes the MX300 better than other Aureal2 cards? And how would it compare to say the Turtle Beach Montego II (that I also hear good things about)?

I have both, and to be honest there is no difference between the two AFAIC.

Personally, I'm running some sort of Aureal Vortex 2 SuperQuad card in one of my machines and it works fairly well. Do other Vortex cards support four speakers natively? The card I have can run digital output but the manual says that if I go digital all four audio channels are mixed down to two. I'm not even sure what the real difference is at the end of the day.

Appiah4, as cheap as possible. Ebay is a bit on the expensive side. I can get one for around $70ish.

DrSpock233 wrote on 2020-01-16, 12:04:

Appiah4, as cheap as possible. Ebay is a bit on the expensive side. I can get one for around $70ish.

That's a ripoff I would say.. I don't know where you live so I can't promise I could get one to you for half of that, but if you are in Europe I could try.

Ordered one from Russia, not bad $50 with shipping.

MrSmiley381 wrote on 2020-01-16, 11:55:

Personally, I'm running some sort of Aureal Vortex 2 SuperQuad card in one of my machines and it works fairly well. Do other Vortex cards support four speakers natively? The card I have can run digital output but the manual says that if I go digital all four audio channels are mixed down to two. I'm not even sure what the real difference is at the end of the day.

Vortex 2 is better with stereo, headphones in particular. If you want 4 speaker surround, a sensaura based card like the turtle beach Santa Cruz is best.

DrSpock233 wrote on 2020-01-17, 13:58:

Ordered one from Russia, not bad $50 with shipping.

Is there a store or some euro/Russian equivalent to a yahoo auctions japan proxy service?

I use the AU8830 in my Halloween build. It sounds great and comes with allot of software.
I think it is the same as the Vortex2 Super Quadzillia.

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