Creative Labs SB0570 PCI Sound Blaster Audigy SE Sound Card

There have been a few interesting reviews for this product here on Amazon. Some are evidently due to lack of experience with computers. I will just list a few things you might want to know. 1. The card was very easy to install and update. As stated in the instructions.. Install the card, then boot up. When it detects the card and wants to search for drivers.. hit cancel. Then when your desktop loads, insert the installation cd and install the software. This gets you the bonus material on the cd as well as the drivers. This includes an automated update system for driver and software updates. You can schedule it to check for (I recommend) once a month, but run it once when you first install. This automatically updates your drivers for you. Very easily done. No searching the net, no messing with anything. Just click the options you want. 2. Sound cards in general. Most computers packaged these days come with onboard (chipped directly to the motherboard) sound cards. This is a terrible idea. The onboard sound card a. is using your system resources and will could be causing conflicts or bottlenecks that lessen gaming and other intensive cpu usage and b. not a real sound card and therefore generally a real pain (usually impossible) to upgrade the drivers on. I am a gamer from ancient history of computer gaming and can tell you this.. sound card drivers not being updated are the cause of just as many, if not more problems crashing other programs than anything else on your computer save the video drivers. Finally.. as for the sound. The digital 7.1 is awesome. I really notice a difference and have enjoyed the performance of this card very much.

I purchased the Creative Sound blaster Audigy about 4 weeks ago. The day I receieved it in the mail I installed it. Here are my findings; 1) I received it very quickly in the mail with no dents and in great condition. 2) I installed it (PS- I have my CompTIA A+ Hardware Installers Certification) with a great deal of ease and no issues whatsoever. Most anyone who has any knowledge of the inner workings of a PC can install this card. 3) I am pleased with Amazon's service and the product as a whole. It recreates very accurate and clean sound on my 5.1 surround system. And it does not tax the system resources in order to do what it is made to do. (Less than 2% CPU usage at best) 4) As a side note, Creative labs products usually require some sort of software upgrade after you purchase them so if you have an internet connection, go to the MFG's homepage and download the latest version of soundcard drivers. I noticed certain sounds in my gaming worked better after the latest drivers were downloaded. My Summary 5/5 on this product. Buy it if you are in need of a simple, high quality sound card. I would recommend it for gamers and music enthusiasts alike. I would not recommend it for MIDI inputs and extremely high end audio workstations as there are most likely better soundcards designed for that purpose.

This was my first experience with the Audigy line and working with it made me glad I stuck with Soundblaster until X-Fi arrived! In my experience, installing this product in a friend's computer caused nothing but headaches. The largest of which was complete dial-up connection and sound failure when used at the same time. According to numerous Google searches none of these problems have any remedy, it doesn't even seem entirely clear what causes it. For my money, I would seek out a Soundblaster if I were on a budget or upgrade to X-Fi because the risk of failure with this product is too great.

I've had my current desktop for a few years now, and the sound recently went. I reinstalled the driver, but no go. Life without sounds sucks. I wanted to find a decent sound card without spending too much money; after all, I *don't* use this PC as a multimedia center, so getting something more expensive wouldn't be worthwhile for me. So I read the reviews for this card, liked a lot of what I saw, and ordered it. I just put it in a few minutes ago (after deleting the old driver, naturally), and...yahoo! Mon dieu, we have sound! :-) No problems installing, no problems getting Windows (I have XP) to recognize the new card, and the most important thing: Sounds can now be heard! Maybe it's not true stereo sound or whatever, but this gets the job done, and it's more than worth the price.

My old Audigy card died and I was without sound for months. It was a dull and sad existence playing games with no sound, not being able to play music, etc. I bought a Soundblaster card off eBay and plugged it into my PC, but was soon disappointed as I learned Win7 did not support the older card. I was defeated, and sunk back into silence for several weeks. Then I saw this Audigy on Amazon. It was as if I was guided to it by some mysterious force. I hit the "add to cart" button and sent in my order. Within a few days, the sound card arrived as described. Used but clean, in the box and with driver CD. I plugged it into my PC, and was prepared to be let down again. After installing the drivers and restarting the PC, I was greeted by the friendly start up music of Windows. My heart accelerated. I loaded up one of my favorite albums, plugged in my headphones and slipped into audio bliss for several minutes before loading up my favorite twitch shooter. Ahhhhhhhh, it's good to have sound again.

Arrived without delay and it works.

Sehr schön... Vielen lieben Danke :) Alles in Ordnung :) Mehr kann man dazu nicht sagen! Preis leistung Ok :)