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I purchased this card as a cheap temporary quick fix when my on board sound started messing up. Just for some background I am a 30 year old male with a degree in Business Systems management, I have been repairing computers for over a decade. Got the card in the mail and opened the package and was surprised to see that this was actually just a re-branded creative card (sound blaster LIVE! i'm pretty sure)so i thought "cool this will be easy and its a creative so its gonna be an ok card for the 5 bucks i spent on it" I was VERY wrong. My current gaming rig is running Windows 7 Ultimate and from the moment I plugged the thing in I started having issues with it. Just plugging the card into the PCI slot the card itself made strange crackling noises as if it were about to snap in half at any moment. Then once i got the card in securely and checked to make sure it hadn't fracture in a million pieces I fired up my PC and inserted the included driver disk. And nadda. The setup came up and basically informed me that I was a dirty liar and that there was nothing plugged into my PC. At the moment my PC repair skills came out like a lion stalking game in the Savannah and i pounced on the Internets looking for drivers and fixes. My reference to the Savannah couldn't be more accurate because several hours later I had searched through what seemed like an endless expanse of nothingness with the occasional promise of a few drops of moisture to wet my lips on that just dissapointed me in the long run. Ive heard tales of adventurers that have gotten this card to work with XP but after 2.5 days I walked away from this card feeling disgusted and used. If you have Windows Xp it might be worth a shot If you have Windows 7 however, don't bother, there is ZERO support for this card ANYWHERE. Mine has now been put to good use as a piece in a sculpture I've been working on made from old unusable computer parts.Read full review
this item is Excellent value and I'm very happy. most of the sound cards on the site were either cheap Asian crap that would not work even on a good day or the high priced stuff made for gamers so they can listen to things blow up in Quadrophonic. as if it sounds any different on cheap ones bomb blast. I forgot about the ones made for XP and times long forgotten!!! SORRY ABOUT THE RANT OF CHOICE GIVEN OUT THERE
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I bought this card in the interest of having an SPDIF out jack. This card does a very good job at delivering full digital surround sound (as well as quality audio from the other available jacks), and I am very satisfied with its performance. However, running Windows 7 (or any other OS), I have noticed that Windows does not properly install a functional driver for this card. I recommend the driver pack found in the link provided below. It worked perfectly for me and puts this card up to its full potential. Driver found at: http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-P17X-Series-Support-Pack-2-7-04-01-2010-AudigySE-Value-LS/m-p/553341
I was looking for a PCI card to replace/upgrade my on-board sound on my old computer, which is always connected to my TV, to 5.1 surround sound. I use this computer as home theater system to play online content, mostly music and videos. The card worked instantly with my Altec Lansing 5.1 surround sound speakers and improvement in sound was unmistakable. This card uses the creative chip but I found that this card was a lot better than entry level branded creative cards for a simple reason: Creative drivers are bloatwares frequently with no driver updates. The driver supplied with this card installed within minutes and had only the features I needed to play my multimedia. CAUTION: If using XP, install driver from the CD supplied with the card. To avoid problems do not let Win XP install driver automatically. Other thoughts: haven't got a chance to check the digital outputRead full review
I wanted to try sending digital audio output from my PC (OS 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium) to my stereo through a Cambridge Audio DacMagic. Unfortunately, the PC motherboard did not have digital audio output. This very inexpensive PCI sound card installed easily, the driver autoloaded from Microsoft and the card's optical output provided excellent quality audio to the DAC, using lossless (ALAC) audio files. The sound quality from the computer's speakers was equivalent to the original on board audio output. I did not install any of the supplementary software.
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