I removed the sound card from my desktop not knowing it was a modem/sound card combo and now I have no sound! Will this replace my sound card?
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It will. (Of course it won't replace your modem). I'm still using mine with my HP laptop that has a blown soundcard. It works well with headphones and will also work with external speakers. The volume is not very loud with external speakers, but great with headphones or earbuds. Powered external speakers would be fine, I think. This is, for all intents and purposes, a USB soundcard.
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Yes, of course. This card works without drivers. I ordered this sound card for Hackintosh. Works well. With the system OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Sound through it I shoot on the system 5.1 Logitech X-530. With OS X 10.9 physically operate two channels. Radiation at the remaining three speakers and the sound barely audible. Maybe seven channels it supports virtually. Sampling frequency 44100. Great stereo sound card for Hackintosh!
2038892
If you have a free USB port, this will replace your sound card. I got this for a hobby project mini computer that did not have a sound card and this worked great.
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You don't have to buy a sound card to have them sound good but if your motherboard doesn't have on board 7.1 sound on it then it's best you get a sound card. I'm using my on board 7.1 and didn't buy a sound card and they sound great to me but could be better with a sound card. Getting a sound card isn't a bad investment for your computer though if you don't have one
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I hope a more informed person will post to enlighten us, but I believe this bypasses your sound card/built in audio codec. I think that is the same for any USB headset.You would need to plug a headset directly via mini jacks in the sound card to use that. I guess where I am lacking clarity is that I believe there is no special speaker hardware for headsets to do "positional" surround. I think it is all simulated- either in the chip in the USB dongle or in your PCI sound card.
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i would suggest getting a third party driver (UNi Xonar Drivers 1.72) from http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/ as asus no longer supports this soundcard
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If you have this slot on your computer. It will support everything the built-in sound card does. This is an older verison of X-Fi and windows 8 may have better mixing software. Most computer today don't come with this Express card slot and I think Creative has gone to USB and on-board motherboard applications. Finally, this particular version (Notebook) you have does sound better than all of the rest, in my opinon.
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There should be one. Look at SND CARD specs. Goto control panel and check properties for that card. There may be one included with the speaker set, knowing Creative Labs. My old set came with one included. Suggest you put the question to Creative, along with your sound card specs.
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yes. Do you know what a soundcard does? This is an external soundcard that connects via USB. Your question makes me wonder if you know enough about what you're thinking about buying. good luck.
934958
Unfortunately you will not be able to use that particular type of card slot for the audio card. However, if your computer does not have an express card slot, then you can go with either a USB sound card, or purchase an adapter that would be express card to USB.
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I have purchased it, to use it with my headphone and while this card is plugged in it's the sound card that outputs the signal.We also use it on a server at work. The server did not have a sound card on the motherboard(build in) nor and external car. This card gave sound to this PC.
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Sorry. Shouldn't need a sound card. Depending on your system config. What OS are you running?
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Hello, before you buy this card i just want you to know that i have this sound card last 2011, but i did not actually use it, it got an issue on drivers, i install the driver that comes with it and it didn't recognize on window xp 32bits and win 7 64bits. I email the company and they sent me a link for the driver, i downloaded the driver and it works but it is a little bit freaky, i mean that some times i got sound and then when i exit from a certain game i don't have sound on my main computer. I open my media player , no sound . I have to reboot the computer in order to have the sound back to the main computer. It seems that it change the settings for no reason...or the driver is not recognize. I didn't bother to return the card because it was cheap $39 bucks and i just want to experiment the card for other use for now. If your not planning to have a 5.1 or 7.1 sounds i recomend just buy the regular Creative sound blaster stereo.( the one with speaker out, mic in and line-in green,red and blue.) I hope this helps.
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Thanks T. J. Schaefer! It worked perfectly. I did have to go in under sound settings to change my default audio device, but I'm up and running now. :)
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yes, 3 way + sound card , but the sound card should be in the first PCI port of the Motherboard
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There's a red and a white colored set of audio connectors that go from the base to your audio system. Check to see that they are both plugged in solidly (you can pull them out and reinsert). I also discovered that the further away from the base I sat, the easier it was to start losing the sound track, which might sound like one side or the other is missing.
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Go to the Sound properties in Control Panel and make sure it is pointed to use this devices audio driver. This was an automatic process when I installed mine, but obviously there is some other variable in your system. Also go to Device Manager and remove the device and re-install, could be an issue with the audio segment of the driver. Shouldn't be this hard to get audio, so if none of this works it may be defective as others have stated. Hope this helps.
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Probably not, it plugs in to your laptop/desktop using a usb port which connects to your motherboard, you must have either a built in soundcard or one plugged into the motherboard for it to function. Im sure any $20-40 soundcard should work if yours is busted.
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Not necessarily. Depends on your mother board. If you 4 outlets for sound on your motherboard that's all you need. The sound card is built into the actual volume unit with the head set.best head set I've ever had and plainly beat my turtle beach px5 s.