I'm having trouble making up my mind on which of these two cards to get. My main goal for upgrading from my motherboard sound is so I can run q3 (Quake 3) and TS2 (Teamspeak) at the same time. The older CT4830 will allow me to do this, but I can get the newer 24bit SBLive for about $2 more. I've seen a lot of issues reported for the 24bit SBLive, but it was mostly stuff posted last Dec (2004).

One thing that could be a down side for the 24bit version is that it doesn't support hardware mixing. I'm not quite sure how significant this is though.

Thoughts and suggestions are welcome, thanks in advance!