Binding: Electronics
Brand: Creative Labs
EAN: 0054651072244
Is Memorabilia: 0
Height: 80 hundredths-inches
Length: 460 hundredths-inches
Weight: 200 hundredths-pounds
Width: 510 hundredths-inches
Label: Creative Labs
Manufacturer: Creative Labs
Model: 3000473000003
Packaged Height: 100 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 100 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 100 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Creative Labs
Studio: Creative Labs
Feature:
- Device Type - Sound card
- Interface Type - PCI
- Localization - English / United States
Product Description:
Based on the award-winning Sound Blaster 16 technology, the Sound Blaster 16 PCI delivers the same high-quality audio with the performance increase of the PCI bus. Sound Blaster 16 PCI provides CD-quality stereo sound with low CPU utilization and great wave-table music that is ideal for home, business, and Internet applications. Sound Blaster 16 PCI allows you to hear the difference, with better sounding music and multimedia in your Windows applications.Full Plug-and-Play support is built-in, so setup is "hassle free" for any PC setup. Every signal is processed and mixed with a 16-bit digital audio engine for high quality. Sound Blaster 16 PCI provides support for positional 3D sound technology to provide spacious sound on headphones or 2 speaker configurations.The Sound Blaster 16 PCI is the most affordable Sound Blaster PCI product to date. Get a Sound Blaster 16 PCI and hear the difference for yourself.
Customer Reviews:
 Bare Bones, 2008-07-24
The drivers for this card are indeed hard to find and install. Creative has so many different variants of their drivers that it took many different attempts to locate the right ones. Windows XP Professional did not install this card as plug-and-play, so my only option was to hunt down the drivers. In the end I found the right ones, but it was a lot of work. For those not driver savvy avoid this card for sure.
The most disappointing part of this story is the performance. It does fine for most basic sound generation on my 2.0Ghz Pentium 4 system (YouTube clips, system sounds, etc), but I suspect that it is a weak link in MP3/AAC playback in iTunes. Music played back in iTunes skips and stumbles frequently making it unbearable to listen to. Upgrading to the latest Windows XP service pack, iTunes version, and Quicktime along with DirectX 10 did not alleviate the problem. I have never experienced this problem on any system with XP installed, including systems with far lower processor and memory specs. This leads me to conclude that the sound card is not keeping up (maybe its still a driver issue).
In the end the cheap price will only be a true bargin if you are really willing to spend the time to hunt down the drivers, and you only need basic sound on your computer. You get what you pay for here for sure.
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