Boost your desktop's audio performance with a sound card from one of the premier names in computer audio: Creative Labs. The Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card is designed to enhance your PC music, movie, and gaming experience at an affordable price. An easy upgrade for your desktop's integrated sound, the card's audio processor with Creative's CMSS technology remixes your stereo audio into surround sound, even through stereo headphones
EAX Advanced HD 3.0 further improves game audio tracks providing a more immersive experience. Simply pop this card into a vacant PCI-card slot in your desktop and you'll have speaker and headphone connections for stereo to 7.1-channel surround sound.
CMSS Surround TechnologyCMSS surround technology intelligently upgrades your stereo MP3, WMA and CD music to breathtaking 7.1 surround sound over multi-channel speakers, stereo speakers or even headphones.
EAX ADVANCED HDEAX ADVANCED HD supports multiple simultaneous audio environments for exceptionally realistic 3D sound in FPS (first person shooters), MMORPG (massively multiplayer online RPGs) and many more exciting games!
Pros: It's a 64-bit 7.1 card (theoretically)
Cons: Where do I start? Like all other reviews stated, Windows 7 support is a freaking JOKE. Sure you can get the "latest" drivers that are several years old and "support Windows 7" but that's not going to get you far. NONE of Creative's software runs under Windows 7, all stating that it cannot find a supported device - so forget about ANY adjustments WHATSOEVER. Since you can't adjust anything other than what Windows lets you, have fun getting your surround sound to work properly in ANY program. Games don't use the 5.1 properly, movies don't handle 5.1 properly, even Windows doesn't work correctly; swapping the rear left and right channels!
Overall Review: I purchased this for my HTPC and what a freggin mistake that was! Movies have no voice, games set to 5.1 don't render the sound properly, TV in 5.1 is worthless; it's a freaking JOKE. Every time my girlfriend or her 10-year old son wants to watch a DVD, I have to open it in VLC media player and set the sound to 4-channels so there's voice. This is a HUGE PITA for me to do every time they want to use the HTPC!