Creative Labs SB0570 PCI Sound Blaster Audigy SE Sound Card by Creative
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Digital camera reviews of Creative Labs SB0570 PCI Sound Blaster Audigy SE Sound Card
Digital camera Review: Decent output to the speakers, poor output to headphones
Summary: 1 Stars
I was really looking forward to this card, but I should've checked the "Sound Blaster Audigy" page on Wikipedia.
"The Audigy SE is a stripped down version of the Audigy, with software-based EAX 3.0 (upgraded to software-based EAX 4.0 with a driver update), no advanced resolution DVD-Audio Playback...It lacks the EMU10k1/10k2 processor, instead using a CA-0106 Family chip. As opposed to the rest of the Audigy series, the SE is a low-profile PCI card."
The output to the speakers is better than my onboard sound, but I tried using my headphones and it's distinctly unimpressive.
Digital camera Review: Do not buy if you are a gamer!
Summary: 1 Stars
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)
Digital camera Review: Does a great job
Summary: 5 Stars
This product has made music and gaming sound come alive in my house. I would say the quality is very, very good overall; and downright brilliant if you factor in the price.Digital camera Review: Does it's job
Summary: 3 Stars
I was running Windows XP with an old soundblaster card and upgraded to Vista and couldn't use the old sound card anymore, so I purchases this one. It works good. I like the surround sound feature. Music sounds really good. One flaw, which is due to this card on Vista or vice versa, is that it doesn't work with Audacity. Before in Audacity, I had multiple channels to record from, now I don't have any. Other than that it does the job. One step better than the on board sound card.Digital camera Review: Does the job
Summary: 4 Stars
The sound card that came with my computer (now two years old) had developed a popping/crackling sound. I bought the Soundblaster Audigy SE from Amazon. It arrived within a week. Now, I'm not very experienced with computer hardware--I'd rather it left me alone, and I'd do the same, but this was very easy--just popped the side panel off the computer case--didn't even have to disconnect all the other wires from the case--just the speaker wire that came from the sound card--unscrewed the one screw holding the old sound card in place, and pulled it straight out. The new sound card went in the same way, then plugged the speaker wire back in (green to green), replaced the screw and the side panel of the computer case, plugged the power cord back in, and booted the computer up. Inserted the CD that came with the sound card--it installed the driver (along with some other sound software)--took about 20 minutes total. No more Snap/Crackle/Pop!