Prelude more reliable than X-Fi?

[somewhatdamaged]

Having had nothing but problems and ridiculous crackling from my X-Fi Extreme Gamer fatality, i am selling it and hoping to buy a card that will actually work on Windows Vista / Nforce 680i with SLI

Has anyone had any success with this card on the above type of board, and more importantly with SLI enabled?

I really want to know before shelling out on this card, as it concerns me that the card technology could fundamentally be the same as the Creative card - and i don't want to waste even more money to have the same problem

My onboard audio is 'working fine' but having spent so much money on a new PC, its understandable to want to have 'the best' quality sound to go with the PC

Thanks

Barry

 

[GeezerButler]

Isn't the Prelude the same as X-Fi chipset wise? I thought it was just upgraded with better quality components in the audio stages. If you are having chipset related problems with X-FI I would guess it would be the same with the Prelude...

 

[EternalMovement]

The problems your having "should" be fixed using the prelude as they use better solid-state capacitors along with a patch out already to fix issues with having 4 or more gigs of ram which people have reported success with.

 

[DEFO]

I've got Auzentech Prelude from OCUK and no probs since! Fortunately the chip is the only thing they using from bloody Creative.

 

[z0mbi3]

Having had nothing but problems and ridiculous crackling from my X-Fi Extreme Gamer fatality, i am selling it and hoping to buy a card that will actually work on Windows Vista / Nforce 680i with SLI

Has anyone had any success with this card on the above type of board, and more importantly with SLI enabled?

I really want to know before shelling out on this card, as it concerns me that the card technology could fundamentally be the same as the Creative card - and i don't want to waste even more money to have the same problem

My onboard audio is 'working fine' but having spent so much money on a new PC, its understandable to want to have 'the best' quality sound to go with the PC

Thanks

Barry

Did you try everything I posted here?