
Have always been a fan of Creative's sound card line up since the days of Win 98. This card is no exception... it was easy to set up, and even gives my Creative 7.1 surround headphones a run for their money, compared to it's own 7.1 USB sound device. I have them paired with a sound bar; easily switches between the two with little to no recognizable sound differences at lower volumes.

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 .

- Clarity is REALLY good, I'm impressed at what I'm hearing in sound that I wasn't before. I really thought that my onboard was fine, until I got this as a "why not" gift for myself. I figured that it'd at least give me a physical switch to turn up and down music, it does ALOT more than that. - I'm impressed at how much more distinct sounds are. Listening even to shows on youtube, or streamed online, I can hear sounds far more separately, and clearly. This really adds to music especially. - Fixed a problem I was having where my audio channels on my headset were backwards (My right audio came out my left, and vice versa), it seems to be common online, and this is a fairly expensive way to fix it, but it did fix it.

Sound Quality Build Quality Portable

It sounds like I am in the movie theater and it's not RGB.

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.

If you want the best sound card on the market then this is the one to buy. Sound blaster been around for a very long time and know what there doing. Easy to install, great software. My headphones have never sounded better! It supports dts for my home theater, which was a must have in a sound card for me. The evga nu or the nu pro does not support dts and is why i never gave it a chance. I upgraded from my old soundblaster z and i am very happy that a did.

Picked this up as a work around for a busted headphone jack in my laptop, turned out to be way better with far more options than I'd expected. It gave my laptop a more true feeling surround option for headphones. Haven't tried plugging a set of speakers into it just yet.

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.

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

I quickly installed it on the desktop,didnt use the (driver)...went to the webpage,and was able to download the Windows 10 software for the sound card,dont waste time using the driver,that comes with it....it would not configure the software for those with Windows 10.



Supported in Windows 11. Great sound, better than on board audio for sure. Bygone audio technology... they don't make them like they used to.

Fantastic sounds card! Great price and lots of options! I am using it with ESXi5.5 in a PowerEdge R710 to pass audio from my weather radios and police/EMS scanners to my audio streaming server.


I got this card with a comp I bought from a big online retailer. Just had to say this card rocks. Very easy to set-up, may not be color coded, but instructions are very simple. I have it hooked up to LabTech 7.1 speakers and it screams. Almost a year old and no trouble.


