Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE Sound Card

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Does this thing actually have vista 64 bit drivers - or is it the typical crippled Creative product?

I found the answer to the 64 bit Vista drivers at the manufacturer's web site and reading the system requirements at the Egg.

Are there any good sub-$50 sound cards that provide headers to connect to the case front panel?

Isn't Audigy one of their discontinued products. With a company that does nothing to support customers of older products, I'd stay away.

How does Creative do nothing to support its customers? I have an original Audigy card and there are 64 bit Vista drivers available for it that work just fine. Compared to much of my newer hardware that will never have Vista64 drivers, I consider that pretty decent support.

Creative can bite me.

Dave? Bad mood today?

This is what I get when I look for my soundblaster driver:

The product you have selected has been classified as 'End of Service Life'.
Support for such products is limited to online materials, such as Knowledgebase Solutions,drivers, application updates and product documentations available on the Creative Customer Support website.

that was the last time I purchased any of their products

neouvou You can't expect them to support a product for 20 years. Get over your 10 year old ISA card and buy a new one

Fortunately, most sound cards built on to today’s motherboards sound decent for most people.

If it's not broken don't fix it. Your ears won't hear the difference.
(For most of us)

Some of you have unreasonable expectations. If you buy a 5-year old sound card, don't expect the company that made it 5 years ago to spend their money to make it work with today's new technology so you can be a tightwad. I bought the original Audigy MP3+ back in the Windows 2000/ME era, but I found drivers for XP on the Creative website--I thought that was lucky. (Great sound card, btw)

When you go cheap, it's buyer beware. Read reviews, check the support website for drivers, etc. This is a good card at a fine price, but not everyone's setup will like it. If you're upgrading to a new processor, it's not odd that you'll need a new motherboard. If you're upgrading to the latest and greatest OS, you might need to upgrade other things like your old sound card.

Note: This will not work in your ISA bus.

Departure1 wrote:

Fortunately, most sound cards built on to today’s motherboards sound decent for most people. If it's not broken don't fix it. Your ears won't hear the difference. (For most of us)

Anyone who had a decent amp'd speaker set or headphones should be able to hear the difference betweeen onboard audio and any (about the $25 mark) sound card. It's not that Creative cards sound better, it's just that having more real-estate for filtering and power regulation helps a lot.

Creative cards do have one favorable aspect if they have hardware EAX, but these days with multi-core processors that difference has shrank to the point where the difference in audio card cost is more than the difference in a faster cpu that handles it in software.

Ok, seriously,
most of these comments are completely irrelevant. My soundcard was over $100.00 when I bought it, it is NOT more than five years and is NOT used on my primary computer. I can maintain a computer for over 5 years unlike some idiots who just buy new ones when the old ones go bad. I still have my first computer, and it still works. When I have a old computer, I just stick it in another room in my house.

Anyhow, old drivers do not take up more than 20MB's which is not a lot a of space. I am not asking them to have updated technology or updated drivers, but the simplest driver which is compatible with my soundcard on their site for download. The cost for server space on their site just to have this file would cost less then a penny a year and they dont even have enough customer appreciation to do so?

Yes it's old, but that is no reason for not having it available. I had to go through several stupid driver sites which require you to sign up for a paid membership in order to download a driver that should be conveniently available by the manufacturer.

This is a good card for a good price... it works very well... and is better than most on board audio... however some of the newer motherboards have really good onboard sound... so if you have an older system.. this is the way to go... a noticable difference in sound when using this.....

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