It was around that point that a funny thing happened, and it all seemed to start around the time HDA (as they were in the days before Auzentech) released their X-Mystique card. Non-Creative Labs discrete sound cards had come and gone without so much as a flutter of interest ever since Creative despatched of their only major opponent, Aureal, by buying them up, but the X-Mystique was different - Sure, it didn't offer all of the major EAX-related bells and whistles.

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