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Summary: Updated Win2k driver is an improvement
Review: I'm updating a review I posted back November where I completely trashed this sound card on the basis of bad Windows 2000 drivers. I'm happy to admit that there is finally an updated driver for this card..., and it seems to have resolved the problems I faced earlier (frequent system crashes, loud humming, etc.) I hope I will finally be able to enjoy the full potential of this card, considering its steep price and the earlier distress I went through. All things considered, I'm still only giving a new 4 star rating -- because there should never have been a bad driver released in the first place...
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Summary: Feature Rich, Great Value, Best Buy
Review: Purchased card from "used" sales (Final Call auction through Amazon) and I may know why it was returned the first time. I wanted this card to work based on all of the reviews I had read, however I could not get it to work in my machine. New drivers, several calls to tech support produced no results. I think the biggest problem was the driver/software package-the card itself was recognized by Windows with no hassles. My call - buyer beware, Phillips needs to work on their code writing. By the way, kudos to Final Call, they handled the return and refund on my credit card with no hassles!
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Summary: Great hardware, poor software?
Review: Purchased card from "used" sales (Final Call auction through Amazon) and I may know why it was returned the first time. I wanted this card to work based on all of the reviews I had read, however I could not get it to work in my machine. New drivers, several calls to tech support produced no results. I think the biggest problem was the driver/software package-the card itself was recognized by Windows with no hassles. My call - buyer beware, Phillips needs to work on their code writing. By the way, kudos to Final Call, they handled the return and refund on my credit card with no hassles!
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Summary: Beats SoundBlaster Live! hands down
Review: The Philips PSC70617 5.1 Channel Sound Card (aka Philips Acoustic Edge) beats the living daylights out of my old SoundBlaster Live! Value card. The only difference between Creative Lab's Live! Value cards and their more expensive Live! MP3+ and Live! X-Gamer cards is the addition of an optical I/O port that the Live! Value doesn't have. Otherwise, all the cards use the same audio chipset.
The Philips Acoustic Edge produces crisp and clear playback without any distortion, and the user has control over every aspect of the playback. Designed for a multitude of speaker system setups, this sound card beats out the rest hands down. Just be sure to get a good set of speakers to take full advantage of the card.
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Summary: Constantly crash while playing games with WinXP
Review: This card constantly causes my Dell 8300,2.8Ghz to crash while playing games (Max Payne 1&2). Downloaded and installed latest driver (version 1.89) still does not help! Other than that the card is OK for other things. I would appreciate if someone come up with fix for this! Thanks.
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Summary: Constantly crash while playing games with WinXP
Review: This card constantly causes my Dell 8300,2.8Ghz to crash while playing games (Max Payne 1&2). Downloaded and installed latest driver (version 1.89) still does not help! Other than that the card is OK for other things. I would appreciate if someone come up with fix for this! Thanks.
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Summary: Excellent card, no so excellent drivers
Review: This sound card rocks!!! i upgrade my guillemot maxisound fortissimo with this and the diference is felt right away! i think that the phillips people shoul put an "autoupdate" feature to the drivers, because the sistem allways feels a litle bit unestable with the shiping drivers. The rest is pure joy!! and its cable city too! it has cables of every flavor!
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