Best Sound Cards for Ease Of Set Up

the software it comes bundled with is on the bloated side but if you do a custom installation you can filter out the unnecessary stuff.

installed card in a pciex16 slot due to a strange layout on my asus rampage ii extreme (which i truly love, and began getting ramdom bsod's in 2d mode from day one.

worked perfectly (see review on def tech pro sub 800 subwoofer i purchased).the card installed nicely and i downloaded the beta drivers for windows 7 x64.

installation was fast and tons of options very cool.

other thoughts: i dont have a speaker set up for my computer so i dont know what the sound would be like with gaming but i am sure if the sound from the movies are coming out great the gaming would

installation was very simple.

very easy to install and use.

installation & setup were a breeze running windows 7 64bit release candidate.

it's best to start with a fresh install of os.

if you're like me you bought a video card that supported hdcp for your htpc that also supported 8 channel audio, bought your bluray drive, setup your htpc and then found out you were watching great

first let me say that i am not a computer novice; i have installed many video and sound cards as well as hdds etc etc...