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So after my 'punt' on a Xonar Dg and realising it's the worse piece of faecal hardware I've bought in recent years I was thinking about the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1.

Problem is I only have a 5.1 headset.
I know the answer will be yes but I wanted to confirm before buying..

Despite being a 7.1 card it will still work just as well for 5.1 won't it ?
 
You wouldn't be the first person to think the DG is pants with a "5.1" headset. I've seen someone else say they found it to be poor with 5.1 speakers.

Seems it's best used with 2.0/2.1, rather than 5.1.

Having owned both, the DG is the better card. It sounds better than the Audigy SE, but then I've only used it for stereo.

Any 7.1 sound card will work with 5.1, as you just change the output to 5.1.

You may have to use Daniel K modified drivers for the Audigy SE, to get it to work in Win 7, assuming you are using that OS.

You did criticise Asus in your other thread, well Creative are worse IMO. For years they left people with dodgy drivers once Vista came out, and didn't seem bothered at all. It took Daniel K to sort them out and get them working properly, for a lot of people.

They also decided to abandon people with older cards, preferring people to buy their nice new shiny cards, rather than use an old Audigy's. Hence, why I said you may have to use modified drivers. The SE has being doing the rounds for more than 10 years now, in one guise or another. Creative just repackaged a card that isn't even an Audigy.

Neither company is great, when it comes to drivers. Both needing modified drivers to work properly, for a fair number of people.
 
Thanks for the info Marsman. I never realised the card I was looking at was older legacy hardware.

That counts that out then. May just bite the bullet and buy a better Xonar.
Cheers mate.
 
I can't remember if I used modified drivers for the Audigy SE. It was a few years ago now. I know the Creative ones were useless. I dumped it in favour of a Xonar DS, which did what I wanted, without any trouble.

I seem to remember, the guy who criticised the DG's 5.1 speaker performance, bought a DS. I'm sure he said the DS was a lot better with his 5.1 speakers.
 
Creative need to get off their asses and make a new generation decent soundcard.

I tried the DG, but being from an XFI background thought it was vile.

Personal preference.
 
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