It was the longest serving piece of hardware I ever had. Today when I came home and turned on the computer, it was no more. Just sits there, its lifeless audioports looking at me sadly. Didn't even smile a little when it heard the pitiful sounds the AC97 makes. Requiescat in pace
Not a fan of my Audigy 2 personally. If I had it to do over, I wouldn't have bought it. Took creative pretty much an entire year to fix the stuttering sound crash that their drivers caused in some source games (in winXP). Then it would still hang in place for a while. They finally did fix it a few months ago... Of course the drivers for Vista are pretty weak as well. Sound quality / stability is fine, but there's no EAX support. Being as they've had the new X-fi line out for quite some time, I doubt these drivers are going to be updated anytime soon. X-fi cards look pretty nice, but I really have a bad taste in my mouth with the way they handled support for audigy 2. The whole creative forum was awash with complaints and reports of bugs, and they just gave stupid responses like "move the card to another PCI slot". Of course that didn't work. With multicore processors on the rise, the need for a dedicated audio card is declining. Simply move the analog portion of the circuit onto a cheapo PCI card included in the mobo, and this problem is basically fixed.
I ordered an X-Fi. I've had nothing but positive experience with the Audigy so I won't trial-and-error new brands. Onboard audio may have come a long way but it's still a far cry from PCI audio. I consider it good enough for Windows system sounds but that's it then. Yep, I'm kinda spoiled in that department.
