USB sound card.

**ppgt94** · 09-03-2004, 08:05 PM

I'm looking for a good USB sound card with 5.1 out. Something like the Creative AUDIGY and has compariable sound quality of my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (24 bit). The reason I don't want the AUDIGY is because I've heard it eats up resources. How bad is it? I have a PII 600, 192MB that runs extremely smooth. Runs MediaCar with MP3 + GPS + Netstumbler without any hiccups. How hard of a preformace hit will I get?

**ppgt94** · 09-03-2004, 08:43 PM

BUMP...How taxing is the SB AUDIGY on the CPU?

*EDIT* Nevermind all this. I'm going to hold off on a new SC untill I upgrade my CPU.

**frodobaggins** · 09-03-2004, 09:07 PM

Say it with me. AUDIGY.

**ppgt94** · 09-03-2004, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by frodobaggins

Say it with me. AUDIGY.

LOL, yeah I figured it out after I started checking prices again. I'm just going to continue using my Santa Cruz untill I upgrade my PC.

**frodobaggins** · 09-04-2004, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by ppgt94

LOL, yeah I figured it out after I started checking prices again. I'm just going to continue using my Santa Cruz untill I upgrade my PC.

Sorry, it was just bothering me

**ppgt94** · 09-04-2004, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by frodobaggins

Sorry, it was just bothering me

'sall good. Misspellings bug me too.

**zPilott** · 09-04-2004, 06:24 PM

I read one review that said it was taking up something like 15% of the cpu on a p4 3GHz machine.

I ended up getting the aurillium, even though it was rated lower in just about all the tests (except cpu usage) but it is bus powered, and I didn't want to bother with wumming more power lines. I am having a problem with hard drive noise. It is a lot better than the onboard sound, but it is still noticeabel when noting is playing, and it is kinda annoying. I would like to try out the audigy to see if I have the same problem some day (or maybe I'll just see if I can find a headunit that has a digital input)

**DjBac** · 09-04-2004, 06:43 PM

I have Audigy NX with P4 3Ghz@2,56... When playing MP3s PCU usage is like 4% but with DVDs is 28-32% (without audigy was 20%)... So it eats up resources when playing DVDs (24bit/96khz)