🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 17 May 2001 01:42:37 +0100, Paul D. <media@clara.net> wrote:

>Is that the cheapest Santa Cruz you could find?  A Live! OEM can be
>had for just $43 (http://www.cheapgamers.com/products/171.asp) - a
>saving of $36.

...and you get exactly what you pay for: cheap, badly designed junk.

No other sound card 

1)  requires a patch from the leading chipset manufacturer to get it
to run properly (yes, Via owns 65% of the chipset market)

2)  eats 30% of your bus bandwidth

3)  is prone to crackling incessantly on a variety of chipsets

4)  causes lockups with IDE transfers

To this eclectic list you then have to add:

5)  buggy drivers

6)  poor sound in comparison to the competition 9easily verifiable by
reviewers **AND** users alike)

7)  a ripoff packaging scheme

8)  interestingly misleading claims of 5.1 capability when in fact it
is *faked* with software instead of being performed in hardware as is
the case with those cards with the Cirrus Logic and Philips
Thunderbird DSPs.

For the record, the problems with the Live! are extremely well
documented on the ViaHardware support forums (both old and new),
various other newsgroups including the Asus and AMD overclockers
forums and a variety of other sources scattered across the Internet
for any enterprising user with half a brain and semi-competent search
engine to find.

Give it a rest - you've got nowhere to go.

Oh, and one more thing: not to defend him but deliberately defacing
someone's name is just simply **rude**.  If you have an argument with
Arny at least take him to task with dignity.

Roj