
There are many reviews about this product, and I can only agree. Straight out of the package it's a good sound card clearly improving the onboard sound chips, and for the tweakers there are tons of options. It comes with a nice LED light strip for the enthusiasts of RGB colored PC's. I wasn't even aware of this when i bought it and it was a surprice when i opened the box.

This card was very easy to install and get running and made a huge improvement in the sound and versatility of my computer as a music player and is worth the money .

I love this card, I just got it and started fiddling with it. It comes with the obvious stuff, such as an equalizer, but what sets it apart from my onboard video is the crystallizer and Dolby Audio encoder. The crystallizer makes it so sounds are more distinct and all of their elements are more distinguishable, especially if you have a 5.1 speaker setup. It just sounds better. With onboard audio my biggest complaint was that while I have a 5.1 speaker setup, if listening to music I only heard sound on the 2 front speakers. but with this card and a bit of fiddling I was able to get sound on all speakers, here's what I did: -Activate the Dolby Audio Encoder -Under Playback, set speaker config to 5.1 ; under full range speakers, check both front left and right, as well as surround speakers. Bass redirection and subwoofer gain also sound good. -Under the SBX profile, create a new profile and activate the surround value, I hear all speakers when it's set to 40. Also recommend, crystallizer sounds best at 50. Once you adjust your speaker volumes as described below, keep cranking up the surround value until you can hear sound on all speakers. -Back under playback, you must calibrate your speakers, for the rear and center front speakers, keep increasing their volume output until you can hear them. Reducing their distance is good too, high distance makes them sound a bit mushy, setting them closer makes them crisper. just mess with that part until you have something you like. What's nice about this setup is that different sound elements from a song or video are split between all speakers, which just makes it sound nice and fancy, and sounds right if all your speakers are close, and in front of you; which is my setup. The above configuration might sound weird or different if your speakers are all around you, and if some are further away from you. Also it comes with scout mode, making footsteps more audible, useful if you want to be a total try hard at CSGO. I haven't tried it so can't comment much more

Easy to setup and works great.

I wasn't it expecting it be this good, the sound quality is really amazing

All is good

Works well ( and I am using Linux Mint and Cachy

Powers my DT 990 Pro headset like a champ. Recommended!

-Works out-of-the-box on Windows and PS4 -Works with any 3.5mm jack device -Sounds better than my on-board sound card

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

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.

Works as expected with 24 bit sound enabled. Good software set and W8.1 sees it every day. The onboard sound (RELTEK AC97) was not initializing reliably with W8.1 for some odd, and never figured out the reason. So, I replaced the ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe MB onboad RELTEK AC97 CODEC sound with this card, and now we're good to go again. - This is advertised as BASIC sound at or above onboard sound at the time the card was designed several years back so no, this won't be an Xgamer extreme or higher level of sound on newer Creative onboard sound chip enabled MB's. The sound quality meets the old MB's sound. It still PLENTY good for most all casual PC based uses and games with PCI based sound. So overall, the fit is perfect and as advertised. Can't complain. 24bit 96KHz sound is plenty good for basic PC usage.



- It's super cheap - Install is plug-n-play on Windows 10. No driver installation! - Works great, sounds good and hassle-free

I have bought two of these. One purchased 7 months ago and one bought for my Mom as a gift with her Christmas bundle from Newegg.com & DELL Direct Computers.

Low latency hi-res hardware based sound processing/recording. Supports true ASIO 2.0 WITH live monitoring. Solid realtime live effects processing and "soundfont" compatible midi synth are in hardware. Heavy tasks are not remotely troubling my CPU. My Xonar cant do this. The drivers are solid and the card's full functionality is recognized by all of the recording/DAW software I have tried.


Great sound, great price. Easy installation, no problems.
