First post, by kanecvr
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Hello fellow retro enthusiasts. Today I picked up some creative cards from a recycling center. I would like to use some of them in my builds, so I'm asking about your opinions as to witch one you would use and in what builds...
Here are the cards:
I did a little research on the "Vibra 16" CT3930, and it comes off as a Creative AWE32 (figured as much myself since it has two memory module slots). The AWE64 cards are pretty run of the mill value cards, nothing interesting there - will probably be using them in one of my win98 boxes. I know nothing of the SB16 value - is there any real quality difference between it and the regular sb16?
What about the PCI cards? The creative branded one is a Vibra 128 PCI - I have one in my P3 SLI built and it sounds great. The ES1371 is a mystery to me. It's also branded Creative, but it installs Ensoniq Soundscape drivers. Is it any good?
Now - I currently have the following PCs with no decent sound cards:
1. - Athlon XP 2600+ / Abit NF7-S2G / X800XT 256MB / Win98SE + WinXP - this one is limited to PCI - so the question is - would one of the PCI cards above sound better then the on board nvidia chip? Would there be any reason to use one of the above PCI sound cards in it or should I stick to on-board sound?
2. - Socket A Athlon 1200Mhz / Abit KT133 / Voodoo 3 3000 AGP / win98se - this guy has ISA. I was thinking of shoving the CT4500 AWE64 value in it. What do you guys think? The machine is too fast for DOS, so it's mainly used for Win98 games
3. - Slot 1 600MHz Pentium III / Soltek i440 mb / geforce 256 SDR / Win98se - shoud I stick a AWE64 card in this or should I go with the CT3930 AWE32? I rarely run dos stuff on it.
4. - Slot 1 Compaq Deskpro 1000 - 400MHz Pentium II / Voodoo Banshee 16MB / Win98 SE - I do some dos game on this machine, but mostly use it as a lan-party computer for when friends come over. Witch of the above cards would benefit it most?
5. - Socket 7 AMD K6-III+ / MVP3 board / Voodoo Banshee / win98 SE - this machine I use a lot. Bot DOS game sand win98 games. It currently has a CT4500 in it. Should I swap it for an AWE32 since those have real OPL3 or should I keep the AWE64?