Yeah, I bought one for about 35 bucks about 6 months ago and for some reason it sounded pretty bad in Mandrake and Caldera. (Bad-bad, not bad-good). It was an oem, and I was worried it may be defective. But I recently put it in my son's machine running win98 and he loves it. It sounds great. So I don't know what the deal in linux was, but might as well go a few more bucks and the get the Sound Blaster LIve - Value. (The value is the same basic hardware as the x-gamers and platnium, it's just the software that makes the price and name difference.) Others may have had better luck, I don't know. -s On Friday 18 May 2001 02:11 pm, you wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, I'm building a new machine this weekend. > I wanted to know if anybody has used or had good dealings with > SoundBlaster 128, or SoundBlaster 512 in their Mandrake 7.2, or > Mandrake 8.0 machines. I've found a place that has them for a > pretty good price, and was wondering if I should just stick with > the SoundBlaster 16? > > Any input would be appreciated! > Thanx! > tdh
