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I bought mine for $150 (US) which was about $50 less that the price in the stores for the 5.1 Platinum. Granted, you can find the Platinum cheaper online, but still more expensive than the XP. I had no problems getting the USB working on mine and I LOVE having the added convenience on the USB ports up on my desk. I also like having the 5.1 output, granted I'm not using it right now, but it's nice to know that it's there. The biggest issue for me is Windows 2000 support. I'm running a dual machine and Liveware is notorious for problems on SMP machines. Not a hitch with the XP. Just my thoughts...

Installed mine over the weekend. Sounds pretty good so far. EAX and A3D both seem stable under WIn2K. I LOVE the external rack! Very solidly built. The only think I've found wrong is that the control panel applet will vrash if I try to to press the sound test button while set to 4 speaker mode. If I set it to any other, sound test works fine. Anyway, the card sounds great with movies as well as music. Of course I also hooked up my new 4.2 setup at the same time, so I'm still trying to mop up all the drool.

I installed my new GameTheater XP last night. Souded pretty good...after I rebuilt my PC. I uninstalled the drivers for my MX300 and shut down to change out the hardware. When I tried to boot back up...nothing. Win2K froze about 50% through the second progress indicator that pops up. Funny, same thing happened when I tried to install my AIW Radeon. Oh well, seems to be working great now. Much more testing to do though.

The Hercules Game Theater XP is supposed to have excellent Win2K support. As a matter of fact, I'm expecting mime to be delivered today. I'll post my thoughts after I've had an opportunity to give it a good workout. Inthe meantime, you can check out a review at http://firingsquad.gamers.com