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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spots who wrote (1101)	6/5/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sound cards and ISA, PCI, NT I agree with Spots that having a sound card it probably a good thing, though it can be far less than trouble free. I just tried installing the latest NT drivers for my Creative 64 value sound board, and it wasn't pretty--a hassle that ultimately led to the dreaded blue screen of death and a restore of the pre-sound-drive drive image. I'm thinking about picking up an ensoniq AudioPCI, since they seem to play nice with NT and are dirt cheap (I'm still pretty price sensitive, as a grad student.) They key question is whether I can spare my last free PCI slot in this TX board. The PCI bus makes configuration easier and it reduced CPU utilization, all other things equal. While unlike the Tropaz daytona PCI card, the ensoniq isn't busmastering, it shouldn't consume too many CPU cycles if you aren't doing things like playing MIDI sound files all the time. It's also approved for Naturally Speaking. Voice recognition is something that both I and my wife are getting excited about. (I already have my mom up and using IBM's Via Voice, and she's all but a raw computer novice. She loves it.)