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</font></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4"><b>Summary</b></font><o:p>
</o:p>
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</o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">This is an excellent A3D2
card with a great bundle and very good sound quality. <o:p>
</o:p>
&nbsp;<o:p>
</o:p>
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<p align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4"><b>Introduction</b></font><o:p>
</o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">Long the sound-area was
dominated by one company – Creative. Others tried to rock the giant but
didn’t do it very well. This was until Aureal released their first Vortex1
chip a few years ago. Now they have the Vortex2 chips out and the sound-arena
(especially the 3D sound) area is finally bursting with competition. <o:p>
</o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">This soundcard from
Absolute Multimedia, a new company founded by ex Orchid and Diamond employees,
uses the Vortex 2 AU8830 chipset. <o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p align="left"><a name="_Toc475735516"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><b><font size="4">Features</font></b></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">The Outrageous 3D is
based on the SuperQuad reference board from Aureal. In fact it seems that this
is exactly the reference design. This isn’t necessarily something bad as the
design has been proven to work well.<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">Let’s take a look at
the features of the board:<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Codec:</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· 18-bits quad CODEC<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Bus Interface:</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· PCI 2.1 bus master with 96 channel DMA interface3D/2D digital audio<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Digital audio acceleration:</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· 16 streams of A3D 2.0 acceleration with 64 wall reflections at 16-bits
48 kHz<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· 76 streams of A3D 1.0 and DirectSound3D acceleration<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· DirectSound acceleration (92 streams)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Full duplex, 48 kHz digital recording and playback<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Sample rate conversion with 27-point interpolation<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Synthesiser:</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Professional 320-voice wavetable synthesiser<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Reverb and effects: distortion, chorus, wah-wah, flang, delay<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· General MIDI, DLS 1.0, DirectMusic support<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· 4 MB of professional studio samples<o:p>
</o:p>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Audio specifications:</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Exceeds PC98 and PC99 audio requirements<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· SNR: 95 dB Typical<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Frequency response: 20Hz-20KHz ( -3 dB intercept )<o:p>
</o:p>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Input and output connectors<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Bracket connectors:</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Line output<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Line input<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Microphone input<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Game/MIDI port<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· </span><span style="font-family:Arial">TOSLINK optical S/PDIF out</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Game/MIDI port</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Arial"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Internal connectors (all MPC3):</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· CD input<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· AUX (line) input<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· TAD (modem) input/output<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Wavetable upgrade connector<o:p>
</o:p>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"><b><i>Compatibility:</i></b><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Aureal A3D 1.0 and 2.0<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Microsoft DirectSound, DirectSound3D, DirectInput, DirectMusic<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Exceeds PC98 and PC99 audio requirements<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· FCC and CE certified<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">· Sound Blaster Pro support (Real mode and DOS box)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="SV" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
SV">· MPU-401 UART MIDI interface<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">With the latest released reference drivers the card also supports EAX
1.0.<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">I had to hunt around a bit to understand what you used the optical S/PDIF
output for. AbsoluteMM say this on their site: <i>“</i></span><i><span style="font-family:Arial">For
the sophisticated user, a TOSLINK S/PDIF optical digital output is provided
for digital connections to modern digital audio devices such as, Dolby Digital
Recievers, DAT, CDR recorders, and MiniDisc”. </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial">I
don’t have any of those so I can’t comment on how it works. <o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">The
card of course supports 4 speakers.<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The
box</span></b></font><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">Anyone who have seen a
box from Orchid will recognize the Outrageous 3D Sound box. It has the same
colours and a similar look. I guess the Orchid guys got to design the boxes.<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">Looking in the box you
notice that, while there is no manual, you get not 1 CD but 5 CD’s. This is
what you get:<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<p align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">CD
with Drivers + manual.<br>
The manual is contained in a PDF file and it’s ok I guess. Anyone should
be able to install the card using it. It is available in 7 languages
(English, Swedish, Danish, Finish, Norwegian, French and German). As an
extra help for newbies a excellent little video is provided on the CD that
shows all steps that are needed when installing the card. I’ve seen a
similar video supplied with the GeForce card from AbsoluteMM and I think
it’s a excellent way to give an idea what you need to do to install the
card. Unfortunately you can’t have it running while doing the actual
install (unless you have a second computer).<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<p align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">WinDVD
1.2.90 – you get a serial number for it. This is a real coold DVD
player. Coupled with DVDGenie 3.30 I even could turn on GeForce Motion
Compensation support. It played the few DVD titles I had flawless and I
couldn’t see any problem in the playback on any of them. It also has a
lot of sound features with everything from surround sound to support for 6
speakers. The DVD’a s I watched had excellent sound.<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<p align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">MusicMatch
Jukebox 4.<br>
This is a MP3/CD-player. When you insert a CD it can connect to a database
(and I can tell you it does this fast! A few seconds max) and provide you
with the title and all the track-names. I tried it with a variety of
CD’s from our CD-collection and while I expected it to succeed with
Madonnas latest CD as well as Modern Talking’s latest (Madeleine’s,
not mine – actually all are Madeleleine’s except Pet Shop Boys)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>it also picked up Pet Shop Boy’s “Very” as well as Enya’s
“The Celt’s” and Nordman’s “Nordman”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>This program can do more though. It also let’s you RIP CD-tracks
and convert them to mp3 files. It’s very easily done- you just select
the track you want to “record” and press record. The track is then
converted to mp3 and placed in a folder corresponding to the Album/Artist.
My track was named “Can You Forgive Her.mp3” and placed in folder Pet
Shop Boys/Very. There is a downside with this program though. The version
supplied only records in “Near CD Quality”. To record in “CD
Quality” you need to upgrade for $29.95.<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<p align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Heretic
II<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>- This game should have
earned a better fate than it did. It did some nice things with the Quake
engine using third person view. <o:p>
</o:p>
</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<p align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Thief
– The Dark Project<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<p align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Half
Life Day One – This game sounds great with A3D2. This is only a
“demo” but it’s long and great.<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<p align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Descent
3 Sol Ascent – This is a 5 level version of Descent 3<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">The drivers shipped are just pure reference drivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>This means you can safely install new reference drivers from Aureal. I
used the latest drivers with support for EAX.<o:p>
</o:p>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Games</span></b></font><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">Using the card in games
ranging from Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena, Age Of Empire II and Allegiance
beta was a joy. Even when not using A3D hardware acceleration the sound is
very clear. It should be noted that I use headphones. Using A3D of course
depends on the support in the games but a game like UT sounded real nice even
though you have to expect a drop in performance. <o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Benchmarks</span></b></font><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">To benchmark this card I
used ZD-Net’s Audio Winbemch 99.<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">The results are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>a bit confusing. I get a CPU utilization around 1.5 percent at 8 bit,
22 kHz while other reviews have gotten a value around 0.3% and indeed my
review of SB Live received similar low scores. I’ve used both the supplied
drivers and the latest drivers but I receive the same results anyway. I just
can’t explain it.<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:.5pt;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-layout-alt:fixed;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Hardware Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">32<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1,5<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1,27<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1,79<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Hardware
Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">32<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1,71<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1,01<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1,63<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Hardware
Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">32<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,86<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,77<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,97<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16bit, Streaming:Hardware
Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">32<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16bit, Streaming:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,93<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16bit, Streaming:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,64<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16bit, Streaming:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">3,01<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Hardware
Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">16<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,86<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,46<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Static:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">6,21<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Hardware
Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">16<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,61<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,38<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 22 kHz, 8 bit, Streaming:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">6,34<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Hardware
Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">16<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,47<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,89<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Static:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">7,86<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming:Hardware
Voices<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">16<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming:Voice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>8 (Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2,75<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#FFFFCC;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming:Voice 16
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">3,04<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:17.25pt">
<td width="594" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:445.8pt;background:#CCFFFF;
padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Audio
WinBench 99/DirectSound3D CPU Util, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Streaming:Voice 32
(Percent Used)<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
<td width="61" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:45.6pt;border:none;border-left:
solid windowtext .5pt;background:#CCFFFF;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:17.25pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">7,57<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Summary</span></b></font><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><o:p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p>
</o:p>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Arial">As you might have noticed
I haven’t spoken anything about 4 speaker support, Dolby etc. It’s not
because I’m uninterested but since I can’t test all these features I let
others with better opportunities test those features. One good place for
sound-related reviews is <a href="http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/">www.3dsoundsurge.com</a>
.<o:p>
</o:p>
<o:p>
</o:p>
</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">I
like this card. It has a great bundle, good solid sound and a good price. The
Diamond MX300 is priced just below this card here in Sweden but that card
lacks suck things like a good bundle. If having to make a choice between the 2
I definitely would choose the Outrageous 3D Sound</span>
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