new pc soon got some ?s

[Fox5]

In WoW, I get full surround now whereas with the Audigy2 the back speakers were silent. Confused

You sure you didn't have it set to 2 speakers only in the EAX control panel? The drivers like to randomly revert back to 2 speakers, and really with EAX4 the Audigy2 should be superior to anything else on the market in games.

it is dual channel i selected the wrong one

so how will it perform agaisnt the ddr dual channel similar??

Don't worry so much about the memory.
For games, athlon 64s easily destroy Pentium 4s, no matter what memory is used. Faster/lower latency memory increases the performance, but that falls into overclocking with either system.
And a Pentium 4 with DDR versus a Pentium 4 with faster DDR2 will probably be a dead heat, virtually no performance difference between the two. A Pentium 4 with the same speed DDR as DDR2 will be faster with the DDR.[/quote]

 

[Guden Oden]

You sure you didn't have it set to 2 speakers only in the EAX control panel? The drivers like to randomly revert back to 2 speakers

Yeah, I've noticed that - and frankly been astounded by Creative's inability or unwillingness to fix this glaring and highly annoying issue (and I could NEVER get the center speaker above/below setting to stick; I used to have speaker above but it always reverted back to below). But NO, not this time. You see, I checked. Also, other games gave surround sound the way it was supposed to.

and really with EAX4 the Audigy2 should be superior to anything else on the market in games.

Hardly any games support it though, and in the extremely few that do of the ones I got I never heard anything that stood out as exceptional sound.