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I just bought a Sound Blaster platinum and installed it today.  Got it 
from Buycomp for $162  My last two sound cards have been Aureal (Diamond 
MX300 with Aureal 2 and Turtle Beach Montego with Aureal 1).  My main 
reasons for buying these cards was for 3d positional sound.  I've been 
very unhappy with Diamond for not updating the MX300 drivers, in fact 
they are still beta on the web site.  Last time I buy anything from them.  
One of the things I really liked about the Platinum is Live Drive which 
fits in a %1/4 drive bay and give you connectors and volume control for 
almost everything inculding headsets.  There is also a ton of gane 
software and freebie MP3 apps as well as a cheap microphone.  There is 
alot of stuff here for the money.  Anyway I almost always use a headset 
to play games, usually Half-life or mods of hal-life and Unreal 
Tournament.  One thing I liked aobut the SB is that there is absolutley 
no cpu utilization.  So my impressions of the SB in games is very good.  
if there is a loss of 3d positional information I can't hear it.  Also 
the sound is better in that is sounds clearer and crisper.  I'm very 
happy so far.
-Terry