user interface controls on Creative products, but they're all show and very little go. The sound card will probably sound a little better, but most people won't notice the tiny difference Creative's cards DO NOT connect to a cases front-panel audio ports....

Which gaming soundcard if not Creative?. Hi I am looking for a gaming soundcard, but I have allready had two different Creative cards (SB Live 5.1 & Audigy 2 ZS) and they sucked. They were really unstable and Creative's support have failed to do anything...

jr. =] Lets keep this thread going just in case something amazing gomes up. Excuse my ignorance, but is there any difference in the Creative Xi-Fi Extreme cards (i.e. between gamer, music and fatality)? They are all 32 bit, but all different prices ... I...

Creative sound cards: WHY!?!?!?!?. Question: Why would anybody purchace a CREATIVE product knowingly? Well, as is known by anybody who enjoys quality sound, CREATIVE's idea of a good time is to make poor quality sound, and sell it as high quality goods....

seem more "haunting." In my experience, sound cards can have a noticable effect on game performance. Though however with current processing power of CPU's this difference has become smaller. Creative's, for example (and there are others), sound cards tend to...

Will Creative repeat the Audigy disaster with A2?. Until I bought my Creative Audigy, Creative had always been my choice. What made Creative so different in the first hand was not quality products, or fancy packages, it was their support. If a system failure...

cards than Creative for home theater as well, but I prefer a stand alone decoder. This is the 3rd or 4th time I've read in these forums how good the cards from M-Audio are and how they render the Creative cards nearly useless when it comes to music creation...