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Creative is garbage, mostly drivers but also they mess with the audio. ie: it gets re-sampled. There are a lot better cards out there such as http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000290057%2050011613&name=HT%20Omega

faltity can suck my diapers. just because he slap his name on something doesn't mean it's any better than other.

what a sell out

2 reasons I said good-bye to Creative:

1) Intentionally obsoleting their hardware by refusing to add drivers for new versions of Windows. I wouldn't be surprised it this gen of their hardware won't work with Windows 7.

2) Most on-board audio with good motherboards is "good enough" for me.

#2 yeah fatal1ty should keep it real like you and just spend his life posting on bens bargins instead of making $$

I recently bought a refurb'ed creative xfi gamer off newegg for $56. It was so cheap I couldn't pass it up since I had been considering one but didn't want to spend a lot.

Definitely an upgrade over my onboard Real-Tek audio.

I'm using Vista 64-bit and its running fine so far...

if your are going to use headphones you will hear the difference. if you are just going to use speakers to listen to music. you probably wont hear much to no differences at all.

Well if you have pos speakers you probably wouldn't want a sound card anyways.

Yeah, if you're using headphones this will sound better than onboard audio, and a normal sound card that doesn't resample and reprocess will sound better than this (at a fraction of the cost).

These cards have two primary purposes. Abuse Creative's market position to milk customers for more money, and provide the hardware acceleration in gaming that their near monopoly has caused to be standard.

The drivers tho, started a complicated mess and have little chance of ever getting finished before they're scrapped for the next version. Basically they release products several months before they're finished.