Well, I will have to take a look at that. Regards, Phil Muir P J Muir Productions URL: www.philmuir.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Kent" <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:22 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: sound blaster audigy > I'm pretty sure that windows will find those sound max cards just as easily. > The cards that are built on to the mother boards will most likely take less > system resources because they can be addressed at a lower level than an > add-on card. Some of the built-in cards even have surround sound support > these days so they can be used for playing DVD's etc. > Gord > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Muir" <philmuir1@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:40 AM > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: sound blaster audigy > > > Couldn't you turn off the sound card on the motherboard? Then when the > Audigy is installed, > performance shouldn't be affected because additional IRQ's that the > motherboard sound card was using > will be freed up. > > You are right though, Jim doesn't really need to have the Audigy installed. > I to have a sound > card on my motherboard. However, I have turned it off in the bios. I > elected to put in a Sound > Blaster Platinum because I new that when performing a clean install of > Windows XP home, XP would > find the audio drivers. I would therefore have speech enabled from the > earliest opportunity. > > Regards, Phil Muir > > P J Muir Productions > URL: > www.philmuir.com/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon Kent" <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 6:53 AM > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: sound blaster audigy > > > > Jim: > > WHy would you want to install an audigy along with the delta 1010? You > > have > > jaws speaking out of the internal sound card. Adding a creative card > > would > > just be redundant and could possibly degrade overall performance since > > you'll be tgaking up additional irq's and > > Gordi/o addresses. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Jackson" <cs2005@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:50 PM > > Subject: [ddots-l] sound blaster audigy > > > > > > Hi all, I've just purchased a new sound blaster audigy to compliment my > > delta 10/10 sound card in my brand new audio notation computer from > > dancing dots. However, I'm just a little reluctant to let any one fool > > around inside of it (call me a mother hen) but the question is, should > > there be any problems to guard against in allowing the computer tech > > people to install the sound blaster? 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