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    Posted: 06 Dec 2007 at 9:18pm
I've read that their's not much difference between the two and with vista it sometimes causes more harm than good, opinions?
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It really depends on the person...

And yes Creative has pretty bad driver support for Vista =\
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does this monitor fit your description of a decent gaming one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009091


good contrast ratio/response time i believe.




Edited by sundowner - 06 Dec 2007 at 9:24pm
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I need to undestand something here.  If your soundcard is doing it's job, why would one need to update a driver?  I could understand for compatability but there are so many drivers that surely you don't need to use more then half of them.
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Support for newer games/programs I would believe.
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Posts: 450 		  Quote Bigdog Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 06 Dec 2007 at 9:32pm
Weird, I thought sound was just sound and you didn't really have to update anything LOL hmmmm.
 
I swear on my older computer I didn't update any driver for sound, it worked perfectly fine to me.
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Ya, you just update drivers for compatibility issues...

I know a lot of people who haven't touched their drivers since the day they got their pc =\
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hmmm. Maybe it just installed itself through whatever I was installing then. 

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Onboard sound will less likely to have problems since it doesn't have a DSP or any special audio features.  The Realtek audio built-in doesn't sound as good as the stand alone sound card however. I haven't had any problems with the Extreme gamer on my Vista PC so far.



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Originally posted by sundowner

does this monitor fit your description of a decent gaming one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009091


good contrast ratio/response time i believe.
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