Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX

From their humble beginnings as a 16-bit sound card, Sound Blaster now gives you the Audigy Platinum eX. (Yeah baby!) The `Sound Blaster® Audigy Platinum eX` is sold as the ultimate musician`s sound card and well it is! Creative have designed it to set the new quality threshold for listening and creating and again they`ve managed it. ...

Having been bitten by the well known incompatibilities between the SB Live family of cards and Athlon motherboards, I was wary of buying the Audigy platinum. I had no reason to be worried however as it was literally a dream come true. Installing this card is not easy by any means, there are a lot of components to think about: the main card, a smaller daughter card, an external breakout box and a monolithic cable. It will take you a good half hour at least to set it all up. The monolithic cable houses the signals for MIDI, SPDIF and Optical digital out as well as RCA and Mike. It also deals with firewire. thats right, the Audigy has firewire built ...

I bought the sound card about a year ago for £120, although now these things are pennies, with all the improved versions being released. Minimum specs are: · Processor: Genuine Intel® Pentium® II, Celeron 350MHZ, AMD-K6® 450MHz or faster · Motherboard: Intel®, AMD® or 100% compatible · System RAM: 64MB for Windows® 98SE and Me, 128MB for Windows 2000 SP2 and XP · Hard Disk: 600MB free space · Operating System: Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 SP2 or XP · Available PCI 2.1 or higher compliant slot · Available adjacent slot for Joystick/MIDI bracket (optional) · Headphones or amplified speakers ...