Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE Sound Card

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Worked with XP for a year and a half. Fantastic sound during those days, it was good to no cost up process resources with an off-board sound card. Upgraded to Windows 7 two days ago and does not work (no hardware was changed). Downloaded many drivers for 5 hours, no go. Inventive claims it has a operating one particular but it doesn't and 'end of life' anything older than two years so there's no assistance. Be advised. Creative made wonderful cards for decades but are making poor business choices. My enterprise decision is to take my business elsewhere for a soundcard. Goodbye Inventive, it was good whilst it lasted.

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It works. I wanted to use it with headphones via a homemade amplifier for transcription. My previous sound card, the Chaintech with the By way of Envy HT chip, was employed for this. It had wonderful sound top quality, but it did not play well with standby mode. This Creative card has terrible hiss, terrible S/N. My motherboard with a Realtek chip has lower noise level.

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Superior card, installed smoothly, fantastic cost None

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Low-cost but what great is that if it does not operate. Wasted a whold eaving of my life on this junk. Software hangs. hardware does not function.I will never ever purchase Creative Labs once more.

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Excellent 7.1 card.Tiny,takes up very small space. Excelent price as usually. As a general rule,sound inputs are Green,speaker,pink mic. On this card pink is a speaker output so watch out for that. The Mic output is the black input. kinda odd for inventive to do that but it is what it is. Audigy is just a excellent card in general.

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It's cost effective. Sounds worse than than the stock motherboard sound card (P6X58D).

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excellent sound none

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5 Stars to refute those who put much less. Low cost card and sounds fantastic. Ignore others who say this card is trash. Its not. none

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As usual, newegg’s shipping had this card in my hands only a couple of days following ordering. They are amazingly rapidly. This is 1 of the few occasions I felt I did not get the finest price tag from newegg. I checked immediately after I created this obtain and noticed that other online retailers had this card for less and shipping and handling was also less. I most likely would not have gotten it as quick but I could have had a 30% saving with another day or two wait. I am running windows 7 rc. I installed the card and it was detected immediately after restarting. However, the win7 automobile driver installation failed. I put in the inventive installation disk and half way by way of the install, I received a blue screen and reboot. After the reboot and entering win7, the card created a quite wealthy sound. This card was to replace my failed mb onboard sound. Have not tried any of the inventive computer software and not positive it installed effectively but the card appears to be working beautifully. Config: MSI k9agm2-fih am2 690g mb, Amd 64 x2 2.7gh 65w, His 4650 512mb radeon pcie, WD Caviar blue 500gb 7200rpm sata three.0gb, 4gb A-Data DDR2 800.

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Simple card but worth it if you're making use of the motherboard sound ports and they stop operating. No cd came with. Don't really see the no cd thing as a actual con i don't know several individuals that use the cd's to get the driver's

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I have nothing to say about this , i just bought it , REALLY exited to try it out since my audio output doesnt work on my Mobo, just the USB.. i think that soundblaster i well known for quality sound , You just cant miss it , good buy at my eyes..Sorry for my lack of English mastering.. :D

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If you like headaches this is the card for you. Mine works fine just is garbage. I really like creative sound cards i own two xfi soundblasters for my computers and when i went to get anouther i went chep and got this. DONT. Im a gamer. This works fine for youtube and modest vids but when i try and play a game threw either headset or speakers theres just like bearly sound. Ive adjusted all the settings and have the most recent drivers. Nothing aganst creative its just this card is scrap. Obtain the xfi soundblaster, there great.

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Effortless install, good upgrade from onboard in old Dell desktop. Working with as a residence media server, operating Ubuntu. Located drivers and packages automatically, sounds excellent. Best for my setup.Wanted to in a position to output sound to office laptop speakers (onboard) and property theater program (Creative), but didn't want to have to switch cables about due to the fact of wiring setup. None so far.

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Worked Excellent. I was getting difficulties with the sound on my Intel Motherboard. None Works great, excellent sound, no troubles

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It was affordable and the sound excellent was great Installed this on XP, worked wonderfully. Upgraded to Vista, and it no longer works at all. I can only hear a loud buzzing sound no matter what I do (i tried updating drivers and everything) and whats much more, it interfered with my network card and broke that, too. Ought to have gotten a defective card, but it was good while it lasted - cause for 5 eggs

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I've been making use of creative sound blaster given that the 16bit version. Those black slots, geezs It's been so lengthy I forgot the name. Its the slot prior to the pci came out. I feel it was a 16bit slot. Anyways, other sound cards would just have low high quality and absolutely nothing genuinely compared to a sound blaster. I'm glad to nonetheless use 1 til this day instead of the onboard sounds. onboard sounds generally just dont perform or just break on you or when you try to record off a mic. You can hear a static. The recording of sound isnt the ideal on a onboard mb. I plan to stay with creative all the way.

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Slim design. Good cost. If your hardcore into sound you'll want one thing substantially better. I was told by some tech friends that there would be no noticeable distinction in between a SB Live! 5.1 and an Audigy. Boy they couldn't have been additional wrong. It resolved some lagging and skipping in a couple games, and movies are louder and more crisp.

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I only paid ฟ! sounds great! none this is a quite superior sounding card! Even so, you most likely wont need to have most of the bloatware that comes with it!creative likes to give out way to a lot software program that isn't that good!

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Big upgrade from onboard. Creative make the very best sound cards out there Absolutely nothing to spectacular. Massive upgrade from onboard but if your looking for a massive impact get the xtremegamer version or the titanium.

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Works fine, drivers installed quickly, no issues. Windows XP SP3. I have had no complications with this card.

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The sound out of my two.1 JBL speakers noticeably improved soon after employing this card rather of the one built in to my mobo. none

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Fantastic item... often glad to own a piece of SB in each of my computers. This card went in a machine that just necessary to the edge over the standard sound the mobo provides.. this did just that. All my other people have SB Pro 4, and nonetheless their product has yet to disappoint me. None... unless you make a problem.. it works as it must... and supplies the excellent that is paid for... just a fundamental upgrade from MoBo. Though I was hesitant about it getting OEM, came wrapped fairly secure and came with the sound driver CD, so eliminated 1 job of acquiring the driver. Wonderful way to get by cheaper... Newegg you rock as usual...

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-Low Price.-Exceptional for Games.-Quick, Clean, & Painless Install. -Windows 7 Drivers are still not up to date and some bugs perforate particular configurations (as of April, 2010). This, i feel, will be fixed shortly. Good for gaming. Do not get if you are planning to use it for sound style or music composing - it was not intended for that sort of stuff.

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I purchased this to put in a household theater pc thinking the the onboard sound would be insufficient. I could not tell the distinction in between this card and the onboard sound on my GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard. This is not a put down of the sound blaster card but far more a praise of the GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H. Good card and excellent sound but just not necessary. None

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originally got trigger my sound went out and required a replacement 1. this 1 has great sound good quality. straightforward to get utilised to. sound is far better then i expected it to be at this cost. couldnt get a greater one for much less then 70. cant feel of any would suggest this to any person.