This Sound card Use a very excellent sound chipset that called Vortex 2
The Vortex2 Chipset that produced by Aureal have :

Baseline Features :
. Windows 95/98 NT 2000 Ready
. Direct Sound 3D Accelerated
. Hardware sample rate conversion (80 Channel,96Db SNR)
. Hardware mixers (32 Channel, 16 outputs)
. PCI v2.2 bus master with burst mode, scatter/gather support
. AC'97 V2.1 Port (AC'98 Modem ready)
. Gameport with MIDI I/O and DirectX acceleration
. ISA,DSP ports
. 3.3V Operation, 5V Compatible, 128 Pin PQFP Package

Advanced Features :
. Hardware A3D (16 Source)
. A3D 2.0 Wavetracing acoustic engine (64 Wall Reflection)
. Up to 96 DirectSound hardware buffers
. 576 voice wavetable engine (64 h/w, up to 512 s/w)
. Hardware 10 band stereo graphic equalizer (96db SNR)
. S/PDIF Output (32/44.1/38/96KHZ Sample rates)
. Hardware crosstalk cancellation (headphone/speaker output)
. 96 Channels - complete - 16-Bit 48 KHZ operation

This Sound card can support Total Digital Audio Solution,totaly
compatible with latest audio standart in all audio application,
rich sound,deep bass. and low hiss. that makes this sound card score higher than any other sound card.

And also this soundcard granted fully update drivers for any operating system that out in this world. And can be said This card equal to SB LIVE.

The Bad is Midi (SF2) not fully supported, SB LIVE is better in Midi
but not in a game, cause EAX cannot match A3D

Installation is pretty Easy

Final Conclusion
This card is good (price/quality ratio is balanced)



Recommended: Yes