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Sound Card - Retail or OEM?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:37 pm
by georgeg
I'm looking to buy a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz to replace my SoundBlaster Live Value. Prices are much better for OEM packaged cards than the retail versions. Would I be missing anything by purchasing the OEM rather than the retail version?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:18 pm
by Spazmogen
Not really.

I buy OEM 99% of the time. Just download the latest drivers and ignore the drivers on the included CD-ROM.

Performance will be the same as a retail box.

The software extras may differ.

Re: Sound Card - Retail or OEM?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:13 am
by redk9258
georgeg wrote:I'm looking to buy a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz to replace my SoundBlaster Live Value. Prices are much better for OEM packaged cards than the retail versions. Would I be missing anything by purchasing the OEM rather than the retail version?


I've had the TB Santa Cruz OEM and for over two years and it works great. It is great for capturing audio! You may want to look at some of the other sound cards that Turtle Beach offers. They just released some new ones.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:33 am
by pranav81
Spaz is right.Only the software that accompanies is changed,most of the time.Rest hardware is all the same.



::Pranav::