Voyetra Turtle Beach Montego DDL Sound Card Reviews

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The drivers for this card are pretty poorly written and do not properly support EAX, causing hard lock-ups when a game tries to use advanced EAX features. If the game does not allow you to disable this, it can become unplayable unless you switch to another sound card. Turtle Beach offers terrible driver support and haven't updated the Windows XP drivers for over 2 years, so I doubt this problem will ever be addressed. When I bought the card, it was the best solution for live encoding of surround sound, but there are better cards out there now. from Compusa.com this is a good sound card. i have got a turtle beach card before. i like this card. from Buy.com Creative's tech support was no help whatsoever. Using restore points, uninstalling, registry cleaners, repair installations - nothing would fix it. Finally I bought a new hard drive and installed Windows to it so I could preserve the contents of my old drive and dropped in this sound card from Turtle Beach. It sounds good, installation was simple and the card actually works. from Buy.com TB doesn't seem to have any plans to support 64bit on this card either. major letdown since i'm switching to vista 64 when i finish my Core2Quad system. Other Thoughts: if Turtle Beach would only support 64bit on this card, it'd be perfect. i don't know if it's a limitation on the card's hardware itself, or just TB being lazy and trying to push a more expensive card on 64bit users, but if you're a XP64/Vista64 user, don't get this card. from Newegg.com Pros: Channels 7.1 Sample Rate 96KHz Digital Audio 24-bit Hardware Decode Dolby Digital, DTS Front Out, Surround Out, Sub/Center Out, Rear Out, Line In, Mic In, S/PDRIF Digital Out, S/PDIF Digital In Cons: None. Other Thoughts: Turtle Beach has and does maintain high quality when it comes to their sound cards. from Newegg.com I've had 3 Cre@tive cards in different machines....never again! Other Thoughts: LISTEN. For the users who don't bother to read the product description carefully, it's not the Montegos fault that it has compatibility issues with your machine. It clearly states support for Windows 2000/MCE and XP. from Newegg.com Pros: The Card supports DDL which allows all games to be surround sound capable for your beautiful recievers. The SPDIF allows for the output for the Dolby Digital direct signal along with DTS. from Newegg.com Pros: All the sound quality and ease of install I have come to expect from Turtle Beach Cons: CRASHES MY SYSTEM WITH A CRITICAL ERROR/ BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH/ MEMORY DUMP ORDEAL EVERYTIME I START A GAME. The only game I have been able to play with any success at all has been Medal of Honor Airborne, and having this card cause the video card to continually lock up and reset is really not good. from Newegg.com Cons: The jack plugs are too close to each other. I'd get malfunctioning channels at times and had to unplug then replug some jacks. Other Thoughts: The Turtle Beach drivers suck. First because they sound too "boomy;" secondly because the EQ settings are reset everytime you launch an application, so you have to keep the sound panel minimized. from Newegg.com Then I tried MS FSX and that is when the nightmare started. It would crash the system with Bad Header Pool errors. I contacted Turtle Beach tech support (only available through email...which is pretty lame) and they told me to try a different PCI slot and the OEM drivers. I did all of that and it made no difference. from Newegg.com

Released	over 3 years ago
Card Interface	PCI
Output Mode	7.1 Channel Surround
Form Factor	Plug-in card
Compatible Audio Standard	AC-3 DTS DirectSound A3D
Bit Depth	24-bit
Compatible Audio Standards	AC-3 DTS DirectSound A3D
Interface	PCI
MPN	TBS330001
Max. Sample Rate	96 kHz
On Board Connectors	1 x Microphone In 1 x Line In
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP
Package Qty	1
UPC	731855033003

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