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Title: Soundblaster128?or 64?
Post by: Gav on July 09, 2003, 11:26:17 PM

I bought a soundblaster off ebay and it was listed as a soundblaster 128 pci card.Now on the card it says 64? so i asked him about it and he says if i do a search on google and typie in the model number (ct5803) i will get soundblaster 128 up.So is it a 128?
Thanks

Title: Re: Soundblaster128?or 64?
Post by: Ilwrath on July 10, 2003, 12:12:43 AM

On soundblasters, you should always go by the chip name.  If the chip is identified as a SB128, then the card should be compatible with the SB128 family of drivers.  

Creative uses "creative" naming on it's products.  The thing was probably originally the SB128+64 limited gold ass-ram platinum edition, for what it's worth.

Use SP128 drivers on the SB128 chip, and be happy.  ;-)

Title: Re: Soundblaster128?or 64?
Post by: Kurt on July 10, 2003, 12:30:14 AM

Some ensoniq boards are also listed on the creative website as pci128 but they don't all work in a mediator

Kurt

Title: Re: Soundblaster128?or 64?
Post by: Gaidheal on July 10, 2003, 02:14:36 AM

Agreed.. Creative are certainly creative with naming, renaming and rebadging products.

I especially like the "External Soundcard for a PC system!  Can even operate as standalone HiFi"  So it's an external amplifier and wave/midi decoder then? :¬)

John

Title: Re: Soundblaster128?or 64?
Post by: DonnyEMU on August 28, 2003, 05:23:46 AM

From my experience with soundblasters, after the Sound Blaster 64 they purchased Ensonic's Emu10k1 family of chips. The Soundblaster 128 aka Ensonic 128 aka the 10k1  chip is the sound blaster live  16bit family and variants. They are technically the same chipset (sb 128 sblive) just different generations of the same chip able to handle different numbers of "software generated voices"..

I am not familiar with the 24 bit sound blasters to shed any light there..