Audigy + M-Audio --> Possible?

[KyPeN]

I have a Creative Audigy (1) Platinum, and it works great for gaming, and....okay for music. I'm looking at the M-Audio Revolution and I'm loving what I see. But, I don't want to give up my Creative's gaming capabilities (EAX 3, I modded it to an Audigy 2). Would it be possible to have both cards in 1 machine, and use one for music and one for gaming? The more I think about it, it sounds very possible, but everytime I was listening to music and wanted to go play some UT2k4, I would have to change some setting requiring a restart, and I don't want to have to go through that.

So would it be possible, with a little bit of configuring, but not too much hastle afterward?

 

[Mr.Radar]

It's very easy to have two cards in the same system. Just set your Audigy as the primary card and then use an audio player that lets you choose the card you want to output to (like FooBar2000). Most games will just use the default audio card so you don't need to mess with any settings there.

Also, if you only need stereo output and aren't doing any recording, then you should get the Chaintech AV-710 instead. When setup properly it's quality is comparable if not better than the Revo 7.1 at 1/4 the cost.

 

[slick]

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Originally Posted by KyPeN I have a Creative Audigy (1) Platinum, and it works great for gaming, and....okay for music. I'm looking at the M-Audio Revolution and I'm loving what I see. But, I don't want to give up my Creative's gaming capabilities (EAX 3, I modded it to an Audigy 2). Would it be possible to have both cards in 1 machine, and use one for music and one for gaming? The more I think about it, it sounds very possible, but everytime I was listening to music and wanted to go play some UT2k4, I would have to change some setting requiring a restart, and I don't want to have to go through that. So would it be possible, with a little bit of configuring, but not too much hastle afterward?

i was thinking the same thing at one point, but it might cause potential problems from what i hear, but i'm unsure whether this is true or not, didnt want to try it. i think you can use a USB soundcard if there is a nice one that works as well as the revolution.

 

[slick]

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Originally Posted by Mr.Radar It's very easy to have two cards in the same system. Just set your Audigy as the primary card and then use an audio player that lets you choose the card you want to output to (like FooBar2000). Most games will just use the default audio card so you don't need to mess with any settings there. Also, if you only need stereo output and aren't doing any recording, then you should get the Chaintech AV-710 instead. When setup properly it's quality is comparable if not better than the Revo 7.1 at 1/4 the cost.

i guess i was wrong then, disregard my post.

 

[KyPeN]

Both of my optical jacks are used. I can still use analog audio however. Would the sound still be comparable or doesn't the Chaintech have good DACs? If it would still be comparable, I may just buy it to do the experiment alone.

 

[Thaddy]

If you are using WinXP then you should have no problems.

 

[KyPeN]

I am. I have few doubts about how it will work at this point.
I'm curious as to how the analog connections compare to the optical out in terms of quality.

 

[Mr.Radar]

The channel 7/8 analog outs on the Chaintech are compareable to the Terratec 6Fire and M-Audio Revolution 7.1 (I have not heard either of those cards however many who own either of those and a AV-710 say they compare). If you have a good external DAC then you should flash the AV-710 into an Audiotrack Prodigy so you can get bit-perfect digital out, however flashing it will disable all the analog out capabilities of the AV-710.

 

[KyPeN]

Thanks, I think I'm going to go for it!
Wish me luck!