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Good, Old Stanby, March 20, 2011
This review is from: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound Card SB0200 (Personal Computers)
I've got a Windows 2003 system and needed basic sound for a media server, and for when I feel like playing music. I don't need any amazing functionality, etc.
I tried several other cards, both an Audigy and a SIIG CMedia sound card. Both resulted in system crashes the instant the driver loaded.
This card fits the bill. It's the gold standard for basic sound support. The card is 32-bit PCI, half length, full height, and works under pretty much every operating system.
The card I received was 1102:0006, which was the Dell 5.1 edition. Nothing really different from the SB Live! Value edition other than the device ID, but you have to pick the right driver pack from Creative's website.
This card has a gold port for digital audio out. It also has line in, line out, microphone, and speaker, for traditional audio functions. This supports 5.1, and has a D-Sub15 Midi port.
Internal connectors include 4-pin audio for aux, CD and digital -- everything you'd expect all through the last 15 years of basic audio cards.
The drivers are from several years back, but that's OK for 2003 and earlier, MacOS and Linux. YMMV with Vista, Win7, Win8 and 2008.
If you need something with large sample bank RAM, 7.1 optical output, 96-bit DAC, etc, then this is not the card for you. However, if you need basic audio for business, light gaming, and media serving, then this is an inexpensive and reliable way to get exactly that.
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sound blaster card, November 22, 2011
This review is from: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound Card SB0200 (Personal Computers)
while having problems with the original sound blaster sound card, I located another original working sound card thru Amazon, I ordered it, it arrived in a few days, I installed it and it works great.
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Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound Card SB0200, November 16, 2010
This review is from: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound Card SB0200 (Personal Computers)
I used to have it years ago when I had it installed in Win98 but not too sure of its compatibility with Windows XP-SP2.
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI Sound Card SB0200 is one of my favorit sound card that I ever had ( old is gold lol ) and here I've placed my order once again but not sure whether it gonna work on XP-SP2, also not sure whether or not the driver is available coz Creative doesnt continue it anymore.
I welcome users to write on it.
thx ..
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