| Creative Labs 70SB057000000 Sound Blaster Audigy SE Card | 
| Brand: Creative Labs
List Price: $49.92
Buy New: $23.99
You Save: $25.93 (52%)
New (43) Used (1) from $23.99
Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 1174
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 4 x 7
MPN: 70SB057000000
Model: 70SB057000000
UPC: 054651095090
EAN: 0054651095090
ASIN: B000EF3D64
Publication Date: 1991
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 7.1 surround output | | • | 24-bit/96kHz audio resolution | | • | 100dB signal to noise ratio | | • | EAX ADVANCED HD 3.0 support for gaming | | • | CMSS up-mixes stereo content to 7.1 surround |
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Product Description
The Sound Blaster Audigy SE is an excellent value upgrade to 7.1 surround sound on the PC. Featuring high quality audio specifications including 24-bit/96kHz recording and playback with 100dB signal to noise ratio and digital output, it's the ideal partner for surround music and movie playback. For realistic gaming, EAX ADVANCED HD 3.0 support delivers acoustic effects and detailed 7.1 3D surround sound in gaming. The included Creative MediaSource software is a comprehensive tool for creating MP3s, managing a music collection, adding effects and burning custom CD compilations.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 63 more reviews...
 Quick and Easy September 19, 2007
M. Edgar (KCMO)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
There have been a few interesting reviews for this product here on Amazon. Some are evidently due to lack of experience with computers. I will just list a few things you might want to know.
1. The card was very easy to install and update. As stated in the instructions.. Install the card, then boot up. When it detects the card and wants to search for drivers.. hit cancel. Then when your desktop loads, insert the installation cd and install the software. This gets you the bonus material on the cd as well as the drivers. This includes an automated update system for driver and software updates. You can schedule it to check for (I recommend) once a month, but run it once when you first install. This automatically updates your drivers for you. Very easily done. No searching the net, no messing with anything. Just click the options you want.
2. Sound cards in general. Most computers packaged these days come with onboard (chipped directly to the motherboard) sound cards. This is a terrible idea. The onboard sound card
a. is using your system resources and will could be causing conflicts or bottlenecks that lessen gaming and other intensive cpu usage and
b. not a real sound card and therefore generally a real pain (usually impossible) to upgrade the drivers on.
I am a gamer from ancient history of computer gaming and can tell you this.. sound card drivers not being updated are the cause of just as many, if not more problems crashing other programs than anything else on your computer save the video drivers.
Finally.. as for the sound. The digital 7.1 is awesome. I really notice a difference and have enjoyed the performance of this card very much.
Great Sound Card, and Cheap too! July 26, 2006
I. Guyer (California, USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I just bought this sound card at Bestbuy to replace my Realtek HD onboard audio that was having problems. Playing BF2 with EAX sounds amazing, vibrant sound and amazing clarity. I was going to buy a Soundblaster X-Fi, but why pay $122 when you can get amazing sound for only $22! Overall no problems, except the volume is drastically louder than my last sound card (have to turn the volume down to 1/8 what it used to be). Your music, video, and games will sound great with this budget sound card!
 Garbage August 28, 2006
Nathan E. Garrett
11 out of 24 found this review helpful
Before you buy anything from Creative, google the words incompatible + legacy drivers + sounblaster + windows xp
Huge compatibiltiy issues that will have Creative Tech help telling you to flash and update your system bios, chipsets, leaving an entire PCI slot between Sounblaster card and any other card, update drivers, yada, yada, etc. Read all of the issues from the aforementioned google, and ignore the Creative employee reviews (they are easy to spot). Creative ignores the fact that its products have huge conflicts with Windows operating systems.
Simple, easy, cheap, compatible June 28, 2007
Concerned One (Clarinda, IA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I upgraded my computer's video card to the ATI all in wonder 9600XT last week, and realized the on board soundcard did not have an extra input for the video card due to my 5.1 sound speakers. I went out, bought this at 10pm at night at a chain retailer, and slapped it in, and in 10 minutes my computer was up and running with new sound that is better than the on board soundcard, plus descent recording software and other sound software that my onboard card did not have. This card does not have any fancy digital inputs or outputs, nor a joystick port, but it gets the job done cheap and efficiently, and is from a brand I have trusted in at least 4 of my last computers. Worth a look at.
Do not buy if you are a gamer! December 21, 2006
Scott Jones (Chicago IL)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
About 3 months ago, I upgraded an older PC to WinXPsp2. At the same time, I installed this card, with the latest web drivers.
The system was stable, audio functioned fine, but I started to have all kinds of what appeared to be audio slowdowns in my games. No lock-ups or anything, but I had to turn the audio settings + video settings down in most of my games to get an acceptable framerate. I investigated, and, guess what?
THIS CARD IS NOT HARDWARE ACCELERATED despite what they tell you. The EAX 3.0 is SOFTWARE supported not hardware.
This card was slower than my old SBLive! Value.
I just got a SB X-Fi ExtremeMusic - holy cow can you tell the difference!!
Check this out:
I went from stuttering frames at 800x600 in UT2004 with SB Audigy SE
to
Liquid smooth gameplay at 1280x1024 with SB X-Fi ExtremeMusic!! WOW!!
BTW use '3D Audio' setting over 'HW 3d +EAX' for best FPS.
Far Cry is smoother for sure, the SE would hitch during the opening demo, the X-Fi was smooth.
System:
Athlon XP1800+
Gigabyte GA-7DXR mobo
BFG Geforce 6800 GSOC
768 MB PC2100 RAM
HP DVD-RW
SoundBlaster X-Fi ExtremeMusic (formerly SB Audigy SE)
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