The Coldblooded machine is a pricey one. But here at the sound card I get frugal. Call it a personal preference but targets love Turtle Beach sound cards. They don't have as much fan fare or the big following like the Creative SB series but they are rock solid sound cards that work well.

Targets are not big on sound cards. They just like hear rockets fired from behind and then whiz by when they are side stepped. that is what makes a happy target.

Like most other items the turtle beach sound card can be found at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829118109

I like the TBS-3300-01 Montego. It has the standard 24 bit sampling at 96khz (if you read the video card reviews, you know 24 bits for audio is fantastic). The video cards border on ghz refresh rates but there is no rendering for sound.

I usually have 6-8 PC's running at home using 4-8 different OS's. I have never had a problem with the turtle beach drivers where the Creative drivers have given me problems. They were not problems that could not be overcome but problems that were better avoided.

here are the spec's for the turtle beach sound card. Maybe we can get Erasmus to do a head to head comparison of the sound cards.

Optical S/PDIF In/Out for playback of pure digital audio at resolutions of up to 24 Bits at 96kHz (out) sample rate playback and 16 Bits at 48kHz sample rate for recording (in). Allows for pass-through of Dolby® Digital and DTS® multi-channel DVD sound to external A/V receivers or digital speaker systems
Selectable 2, 4, 6 or 8 output channels with 24 bit playback at up to 96 kHz sampling rate
Converts stereo sound sources to multi-channel format, so you can listen to 2-channel MP3 digital music or movies with enhanced multi-speaker surround sound environment
Pure surround sound and virtual surround sound from eight analog outputs provides 7.1 surround sound for DVDs, CDs, and MP3s
Supports Game Surround Sound APIs such as EAX 2.0 and A3D
PCI 2.2 Interface with bus mastering and burst modes
* DTS Passthrough only available in Windows® 2000 / XP
* Channels 7 and 8 only available in Windows® XP


Inputs/Outputs



Mic Input
Stereo Line Input
Front channels L/R out (1 & 2)
Surround channels L/R out (3 & 4)
Center/Sub woofer channels out (5 & 6)
Rear channels L/R out (7 & 8)
S/PDIF Out (Optical)
S/PDIF In (Optical)
Internal input connectors for CD and Aux audio sources