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Pros: Crystal clear sound that is a little louder then onboard audio.Lots of different audio settings.Works with Vista 64 bit. Cons: Not much better then onboard audio. If you have a good set

Pros: Card works flawlessly in XP. Sounds good. Cons: Software will not run in MCE 2005 so I have no control. The manual & tech specs all indicate MCE 2005. Other Thoughts: I installed

Pros: Great sound and easy if simple interface. Great quality build and materials Cons: Poor drivers from Asus. The drivers for Asus are not any better than Creative. They have slow service

Pros: It's better than Creative and doesn't crash on you Cons: Their set up software is odd, for some reason if you have a 5.1 set up, it asks you to set up the rear speakers as side spakers.

Summary:Very good card, especially now that the price is dropping. I really like the smaller size as I have a pretty full case and this size helps with cooling and air flow. Recommended sound card.

What's great about it:?Sounds great! Lots of features to tweak. Setup was a breeze. Just read the manual. What's not so great:?None really "Overall I'm happy with this purchase...No regrets.

Good sound quality!!!

I use this for mixing sound for videos of musical stage productions. Excellent, professional quality. I imagine it's great for game players, too. But I don't do computer games.

I bought the board to connect my laptop to a Logitech Z-5500 speaker set.
I used the optical link to make the connection. It required a powered USB hub. Without it there was some noise in the

I bought the Audio Advantage SRM to drive my newly acquired Logitech X-540 5.1 speaker system on my Vista-inflicted laptop. I was unable to install the thing at first due to a PID error in the unit,

I bought this to not really improve the sound quality of my laptop but to get back the "stereo mix" that is missing from Vista. It was waaaay to complicated to get working and to be honest, I can't

This sound card is simply amazing. First, it installed seamlessly on my Vista 64bit laptop. To compare, on my older XP laptop, I have the PCMCIA Audigy 2 (one great soundcard); this card is as good

Follow the instructions to the letter.
I put this one in XP and a Deluxe in Vista. Both work great.
It's best to start with a fresh install of OS.
Total Media Theater does not work

i used to have creativer elite one which is the latest in the soundblaster, never had prb or crush in widnows, now this card is better in sound yes, and funcation but really crush many times, i wish

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... I could not get this product to work AT ALL. Even tried two different

Its good sound card but not upto my expectation. I expected more than this from asus. First of all we need to get latest driver from asus support site. Otherwise perfomance is same as my onboard