RF-51SDCD 5.1 Ch. PCI Sound Card

by ROCKETFISH

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B002WE9T2W
• Item model number: RF-51SDCD
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #16 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Components > Internal Sound Cards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 10, 2009

Product Description

RF-51SDCD 5.1 Ch. PCI Sound Card

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars S/PDIF is Stereo Only, October 11, 2010

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J. Jambik (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RF-51SDCD 5.1 Ch. PCI Sound Card (Electronics)

While this cheap audio works just fine I failed to notice one tiny gotcha when I purchased it: the optical output (S/PDIF) only outputs a stereo field (2 channels).

After spending a couple hours trying to figure out why my surround receiver wasn't playing all 5.1 channels I finally noticed the bullet point on the item description, "Optical out Supports stereo S/PDIF out and pass-through of multichannel DVD sound". So in order to listen to all the channels I need to, instead of running one optical cable, run several 1/8" to RCA style cables.

This is not a deal breaker, it's just something I wish I had been aware of before I bought the Rocketfish sound card.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RF-51SDCD 5.1-CHANNEL PCI sound card, December 15, 2010

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This review is from: RF-51SDCD 5.1 Ch. PCI Sound Card (Electronics)

I purchased this card for under $10. Saw mixed reviews, but for the price I figured it was worth the gamble. Received it with in a week. Opened the package, and saw the backplate was a little bent. Not sure if that was due to shipping but anyway, I bent it back into shape. Stuck it in my computer running windows 7 x64. Windows update came up, installed the driver and it worked. Didn't have to finagle with anything. Sound quality is amazing. My on board sound has 7.1 surround sound, but it doesn't sound any where near as good as this sound card. I'd recommend this product. A+ for simple installation and fast delivery. Kudos to everything except that back plate being a little bent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for., August 15, 2011

By 

Colin Gutierrez (St. Joseph, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RF-51SDCD 5.1 Ch. PCI Sound Card (Electronics)

I purchased this card when my on-board sound failed and I needed a quick cheap replacement. It covers the basic functions but in certain applications the sound would suddenly become distorted with static and popping and the only way to fix it would be to either go into the menus and temporarily disable 3D sound or restart the computer. Also this card has no ASIO support and will give you latency problems and choke on complex or dense MIDI compositions in Cubase. If you're not composing music or playing games with 3D sound, this will be fine but you will want something better if you're doing anything more than watching Hulu or playing Farmville.