
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 .

Sound Quality Build Quality Portable

-Quality of the sound is flawless -Easy to install and the software is pretty nice too -RGB (no you do not have to plug the molex to get it on the card, but it comes with a led stripes that I did not need)

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

Works well ( and I am using Linux Mint and Cachy

Finally, I can get real volume from all sites. For some reason, many sites did not have the db level I wanted.

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

Best sound card in have ever had Easy to setup

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

Quality sound,useful volume control knob for headphone output,16/24 bit 44.1,48 and 96khz sampling rate for great sound recording and playback(HD Audio), compact unit housing.

Sound Blaster does a very good job for the price

Easy to install, sounds awesome, nice to be able to quick select sound profiles based on what kind of games you play.

I bought it to install on an old computer because the built-in sound card no longer worked. The sound quality is okay but not as good as the PCI-e version I also bought. It also comes with a driver disk.


Works perfect. Crystal clear 7.1 sound. Windows 10 automatically installed driver.

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

- High quality audio - 7.1 Channel surround - 2 Microphone inputs


