Creative Go! 70SB129000000 24-bit 44.10 kHz USB Interface X-Fi Go! Pro Sound Board

Pros: As a sound enthusiast you gotta get the best sound out of that laptop of yours. THX certified device and EAX makes this one powerful sound combination. Whether your using for studio editing or gaming this has gotta be one of the best devices for audio from Creative. They also feature a software audio control panel to make your experience even better.

Cons: It might take up 2 USB slots but no biggie as Creative provide an extension cable.

Other Thoughts: If you need the best sound and your laptop is giving you shady audio then this is probably the best bet for audio.

Pros: Excellent audio
Easy to plug in and out

Cons: The switch that flips it between speakers and headphones could use with a click or something so you know it's in a position

Other Thoughts: I've had this product 3-4 days, using it excessively since I busted my headphone jack on my laptop.
The sound from the audiocard sounds better than what the laptop delivered - and since I recently put a tower together but I didn't get an audiocard, or hook up the audio headphone mount for that matter to anything, the audiocard has come in hand for that so I can switch it back and forth.
But I would easily buy a second one just to have one stay permanently on my tower.

I have used both speaker mode and headphone mode - both work, however I would prefer it just for headphones as it doesn't feel quite the same in speaker delivery (but that could be just with the speakers I have, they're the 15 dollar cheap kind)

Pros: N/A

Cons: Misleading info from Newegg

Other Thoughts: This card is not 24 bit, it 16 bit according to the specs on Creative website:

us.store.creative.com/Creative-Sound-Blaster-XFi-Go-Pro/M/B0044DEDC0.htm

Pros: Love the sound from this device. Onboard sound wouldn't cooperate so I went with this.

Cons: None so far

Pros: compact and came with usb extnsion cable

Cons: Not wht I expected from Creative

Other Thoughts: Lasted a few months, while it worked the music through the headphones occassionally was full of static

Pros: Everything.

Cons: Nothing.

Other Thoughts: Mobo already has a decent realtek installed but this is a must have. Sound is amazing and with 2 sound cards I like to play my music through speakers and everything else through headphones.

Pros: It was easy to plug in and set up. I used it to be a second sound card for my laptop so I could send one audio feed to headphones (this card) and one to speakers.

Cons: I had to use it for headphones because there was so much digital interference noise it would have made the speakers sound terrible.

Pros: Pretty good sound its 24 bit and it really is way better than onboard sound. I got this to pair with my Asus g-74x for diablo 3 when im away from the desktop. Paired with the Creative Fatal1ty headset this is a solid pair and costed my around 65 bucks free shipping.

Cons: Nothing yet this is superb for portablity, I know some have said use the extension I personally think it depends on the laptop layout you personally have. Mine is set for some peripherals to stick out so no extension needed.

Other Thoughts: If I had a choice with a laptop I would go with 24 bit sound, nothing less. I have tried this on the d3 beta paired with Xi-Fi Go! and Turtle Beach x12 and Creative Fatal1ty headset. Directional sound is processed very clearly and I can hear positions If that is important to you.

Pros: Good audio quality
Software is alright, has a few nice features

the BEST things about this that makes it completely awesome is the "what you hear" mic input. It gives you 2 different mic inputs, the normal mic input which is just w/e sound the mic picks up. The what you hear mic input, is everything that you is coming out of the output. Which does open alot of cool options you can do with it.
(I believe most creative products come with it, as i remember i had an old pci sound card with this option).

Works great for headphones or external speaker systems. (ofcourse using this disables your internal laptop speakers, if that isnt obvious)

Since its a usb sound card, it DOES require cpu, and it does rely on the usb controller for bandwidth.
Meaning high cpu usage spikes or too much usb bandwidth usage, may shutter the audio.
(mine doesnt have any problems on a 2.4ghz amd turian II dual core, even when running prime95 to max my cpu, audio never shutters).

Cons: hmmmm, may have a little bit of low amplitude interference, but its likely just interference my mic is picking up. Would need to do alot of testing before i could say definitely whether or not this usb sound card was the cause.
(and it is low amplitude, meaning unless its dead silent, you wont even notice it anyway, to even make it audible i had to increase the amplitude of the recorded sample by like 60+db lol)

Other Thoughts: (i use this paired with creative 3D tactic alpha headset, idk if virtual surround will work with headsets not set up for virtual surround)

It gives you a volume control panel, which contains the usual creative software, like eax effects, thx studio, 10band EQ, etc.

The thx studio software is nice, allows for virtual surround. i keep mine at around 40%, which is best.

The crystalizer is interesting, it does improve poor quality audio. But with high quality audio it makes it sound highly unrealistic, especially the highs. I keep mine at about 10%.

I wouldnt recommend turning on the speaker option for headsets, it adds alot of bass, which will likely blow them out (if you want more bass get a better headset).

since i see the question alot. No this doesnt make anything louder... sound cards dont make things louder.... if you want louder, get a better headset, sound system or amp.

Pros: My internal sound on my motherboard stopped working (well the microphone port on both the front and rear stopped being "loud" enough for other people to hear me).
I purchased this because the ports on my G510 kinda made the sound weak (I like the crystallizer effect) and my microphone sounded rough. Was bad for talking over movies for youtube.

It impressed me from day 1 because I could just hook it into the monitor's on-board USB ports and just ran my headset from there. I've never had any hardware related problems with it.

Cons: The software isn't up to par with other Creative products.