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Easy install. Good sound quality for what I use. App makes setup easy

Great Sound ... Great Software ...

I was doing a New 550 M.B. when I install this for the 1st time

I brought this because my mother board sound card was dying and was unable to install an internal card due to my graphics card being mounted vertically in my case preventing access to the card slots. This little device was easy to connect and use having noticeably better sound quality than the original mother board audio before it developed issues.

Coming from years of using audio cards (PCI & USB) utilizing C-Media chips i can say this is an upgrade. The C-media were always plenty loud to drive high impudence headphones and sound quality was great but i could not tweak the EQ too much because i would get sound clipping, the amps on the chips were simply not able to handle much more headroom. This sound blaster has the head room and the volume. After installing the driver \ software from creative site you get options for bass boost, virtual surround effect, sound enhancement (works well with music and movies alike) and Equalizer. The software also includes a toggle switch between low impudence and high impudence headphones (Large driver headphone usually equal high impedance which requires more power for the sound card to push through). The sound maintains clarity even when tweaking the Equalizer although i found that out of the box i only needed a light boost at the 16k and 60hz (old ears). The mids are perfectly tuned for my taste with plenty of bite, presence and clarity. Your experience may vary depending n the headphones you use.

Comes with low profile bracket. Sound is great compared to onboard sound component.

- Easy setup - Great sound quality - Versatility - Makes games sound amazing

Incredible sound quality, so much better than PC motherboard cheap sound chip... Richer, clearer, more enveloping and noise-less output, specially when used with headphones. Never thought it would make such a difference. Great software too.

Works awesome with my beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro’s (250ohm). Powers them well, sound is great!

Sound Blaster does a very good job for the price


This little thing worked way better than I thought it would!


I bought it to install on an old computer because the built-in sound card no longer worked. The sound quality is okay but not as good as the PCI-e version I also bought. It also comes with a driver disk.


Got this because it's compatible with Windows 98 Upon boot, Win 98 detected it, it installed a PCE-E to PCI bridge chip driver. I had to install the driver manually after, but that's just Windows 98 being bad.


