Rating: 
Summary: Ok for the price and basic functions
Review: This is a basic low-end sound card. It puts out pretty good sound for most things you do on your computer. It comes with some ok software and all the cables to connect to your cd-rom drive so you can rip your cds directly from the cd-rom. The drivers are included for all windows including xp.
Why you wouldn't want this card If you are a gamer or listen to high quality mp3 (over 128 bitrate), 128 or less will sound fine with this card I don't understand people having driver support because creative labs is the biggest sound card company on the market and one thing you will not have to worry about is driver support with any current or future versions of windows
Rating: 
Summary: Good low-end, no-hassle card
Review: This is a basic sound card. Nothing fancy. The thing that seperates it from the rest is that Creative is a huge company and has drivers available for all Windows (the Linux/BSD world probably supports this thing, I haven't checked). This is as close to plug and play as you can get. That guy who ranted about this card crashing his system needs to buy a clue and check his IRQs, not to mention dump Windows ME (which *Microsoft* doesn't even stand by).
Rating:
Summary: Good low-end, no-hassle card
Review: This is a basic sound card. Nothing fancy. The thing that seperates it from the rest is that Creative is a huge company and has drivers available for all Windows (the Linux/BSD world probably supports this thing, I haven't checked). This is as close to plug and play as you can get. That guy who ranted about this card crashing his system needs to buy a clue and check his IRQs, not to mention dump Windows ME (which *Microsoft* doesn't even stand by).
Rating:
Summary: OK
Review: This is an inexpensive peice of hardware with decent support. However, I had trouble getting the system to see it is the beginning, though I am not sure if it was trouble with the card, or Win98... For the price, it is ok.
Rating: 
Summary: Easy to Use, Almost everything you could want
Review: This sound card doesn't reproduce MP3 or WAV files any differently than a more expensive card would. Creative Labs has always made great cards and drivers. The only thing this card doesn't give you that the more expensive card do is the 3d sound effects when playing video games, and true Dolby 5.1 for DVD playback. However, I doubt many people are setup for this situation, and many people do not watch DVD's or play games. If this is you, this card is perfect for you. If you are a gamer then this card will work perfectly fine. I personally find the 3d effects annoying, and prefer to play on a card like this. I highly recomend this card.
Rating: 
Summary: Why do they still sell this junk?
Review: Way overpriced, way under-useful. I would give it NO stars, but that doesn't seem to be an option. In the past few decades that this card has been available (only a slight exageration) there have been great improvements made that this old piece doesn't have. You want to get a different card unless you have no desire to play any sounds besides MIDI files.
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