3DSoundSurge rolled up all the technical features of the Audigy as well as a close look on Creative's software. They also benchmarked the card ;-). I found the stability and performance of the Windows 98 drivers to excellent. In our stability test I managed to let an Unreal Tournament 15 botmatch run for 14 hours without a crash. Moving on to performance the results were just as impressive. In the ZD audio WinBenchmark none of the test with up to 32 3D streams had a CPU usage of about 0.5% compared to the Live drivers up to 2.6%. Moving on to games I used Half-Life and Unreal Tournament. The Half-Life benchmarks were again impressive with no measurable difference between EAX disabled and enabled, which can be compared to a hit of about 10% with the latest Live 5.1 drivers. In Unreal Tournament the result a again didn?t disappoint with disabling 3D Sound and EAX only giving a boost of about 6%, compared to the 14% gain this would give were you using the Live 5.1 card. All tests done using my Duron 750 with 256 MB and Windows 98/DirectX 8.0.