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Razer Barracuda AC-1 Contest

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Razer is organizing this "Win 5x Barracuda AC-1 Gaming Audio Cards" and all you have to do is fill in your namer, email and location. The Razer Barracuda AC-1 Gaming Audio Card features a 7.1 channel output, 24-bit audio technology, 117dB Signal to Noise(output) and costs $199. The Razer Barracuda AC-1 Contest qualifying period is from 25 Nov to 14 December 2006. There will be 5 winners chosen who will be notified by email. Winners names will be available on the Razer site on 24 December 2006. Enter the contest by clicking here, and remember to read again the Terms & Conditions.

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If it doesn't mean advertising I may as well enter... better skim through the T&C.
 
did you to get no message back after clicking submit? ;)
usualy people get thank you or something but nada here ^^

looks like a great card, DTS Interactive! & Dolby Digital Live, tose to will realy rock tha home theater system and my Logitech Z-5500 5.1 DTS 96/24 THX Surround system :P
 
Only two problems I see with this sound card are that my RX-V592 doesn't have optical in (thanks to 1997 technology), and you'd have to buy a headphone amp. The latter of the two seems like a pretty significant problem IMO.
 
This card looks like it has the same specs as my $70 Turtle Beach Montego DDL.

Wait for the next generation card. Razer's going to add 512 Terabytes of GDDR1000 memory, Liquid Nitrogen cooling and a core clock of 3.2 Petaherts and a Fata1ity logo.
And why isn't it loaded with blue LEDs?! WTF!!!!!11 [/sarcasm]

The glowing Razer logo sitting in the bottom of your case just doesn't seem like it's worth it.
 
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This card looks like it has the same specs as my $70 Turtle Beach Montego DDL.

Wait for the next generation card. Razer's going to add 512 Terabytes of GDDR1000 memory, Liquid Nitrogen cooling and a core clock of 3.2 Petaherts and a Fata1ity logo.
And why isn't it loaded with blue LEDs?! WTF!!!!!11 [/sarcasm]

The glowing Razer logo sitting in the bottom of your case just doesn't seem like it's worth it.

hey, free's free...

Would be nice to have optical out tho.. this DFI doesnt. :laugh: My AN7 did :(
 
hey, free's free...

Would be nice to have optical out tho.. this DFI doesnt. :laugh: My AN7 did :(

What? It has optical. That's a very expensive card if you're just doing optical. Doesn't optical bypass most of the card?
 
What? It has optical. That's a very expensive card if you're just doing optical. Doesn't optical bypass most of the card?

it would be nice to have, because MINE doesnt... hence the whole DFI and AN7 comment....;)

Optical out just bypasses the cards DAC, not the card.. the sound card still has to calculate the sounds, it just outputs a digital signal, so you are able to use a decent DAC instead of a crappy on-card one.
 
heck, i would take it if i won. i dont even have any hardware that supports optical audio, i would just keep my $30 sound card and sell this sucker
 
I don't know if I'll use it, but if I win, it's free... Maybe I'll stick it in the computer I'm making for my brother.
 
gotta give this a go ..who knows :)
 
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