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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX PCIe 5.1 Internal Sound Card with High Performance Headphone Amp

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Condition
Used - Very Good
Style
5.1 Channel Surround Sound
Model
SB1570
Weight
6.4 oz
Hardware Interface
PCI Express x1
Platform
Windows
Hardware Platform
PCIe
Warranty
1 year limited
Works with
Personal Computer

Features 5

  • Easily converts the PC into a cinematic entertainment system by providing a compelling 5.1 surround sound
  • Advanced Audio Processing with SBX Pro Studio, a suite of Sound Blaster audio processing technologies that let you bring out the best in your audio
  • Supports Windows 11 and includes both half-height and full-height brackets for most PC builds, as well as the Sound Blaster Audigy Fx Control Panel, a PC software that puts you in full control of the SBX Pro Studio suite of technologies
  • 600 ohm headphone amp for high performance, studio grade monitoring

Description

Meet the Sound Blaster Audigy Fx! This half-height sound card is powered by SBX Pro Studio Technology and instantly converts your system with 5.1 entertainment system that delivers cinematic surround sound - perfect for bringing out the best in your movies, music and games. Users can look forward to full audio customization with Sound Blaster Audigy Fx Control Panel, a downloadable PC software suite that allows users to control every aspect of SBX Pro Studio. The Audigy Fx further features 24-bit 192kHz digital-to-analog converter (Playback), 106dB SNR and a high-end 600 ohm headphone amplifier for studio grade monitoring. Minimum System Requirements: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent processor, 2.2GHz or faster recommended, Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard, Microsoft Windows 8 (32/64-bit), Windows 7 (32/64-bit), Windows Vista (32/64-bit), 1 GB RAM, ; 600 MB of free hard disk space, Available PCI Express 1x slot, Available CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. Software includes: Sound Blaster Audigy Fx Control Panel, Creative ALchemy, Creative Software AutoUpdate, Creative Host Open AL / EAX5.0 HD, Creative Diagnostics. Package contents include: Sound Blaster Audigy Fx card (with full height I/O bracket), Quick Start leaflet, Installation CD containing: Drivers for Windows 7 & 8 , Vista, Creative Software Suite, User's Guide PDF, Half- height I/O bracket.

Specs 19

Brand Creative
Hardware Interface PCI Express x1
Audio Output Mode 5.1
Platform Windows
Hardware Connectivity PCI Express x1
Hardware Platform PCIe
Surround Sound Channel Configuration 5.1
Maximum Sample Rate 96 KHz

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Once Again...
Once again I have installed a Sound Blaster card for my sound device on my new PC. Over the years, I've used SBs as I've usually found them to work well and provide the best sound on my PCs. I brought a new Dell, and it came with on board sound and graphics. As I had had some experience with on board graphics before, I have usually replaced the graphics with a drop in board as it gave me the best performance for the my games which I did this time. This time the sound was pretty good on the on board sound. I, at first, didn't notice any of the normal things I didn't like about on board sound. It seemed pretty good. I didn't note any of the issues I had seen before. (Like back ground noise, or game problems, etc.) In fact, the sound was nice thru my 5.1 speaker system. I then started noticing small things. First, some games seems not to sound right and on others I had trouble getting the sound to work right. I also started noting a small amount of background static that I hadn't heard before. It wasn't very pronounced or loud but it was there just under the surface so to speak. I also noted that on high listening level that the sound somewhat distorted and sounded a bit "shattered" unless I turned the volume down a bit. (The older system I had had a SB Audigy in it and although you could drive the speakers to distortion it took a really high volume level setting to do it.) So after going along a bit and finding these things out, I decided to do what I had always done.....get a SB. I chose this card as it fit the bill for what I want. A good card at a good price that has the features I want. (It had to have 5.1 connectively and be able to handle my 5.1 speaker system first of all and the reviews seemed good.) After getting the card in, I proceeded to pulled the new system out and crack the case to install it. I found that my Inspiron case had two slots this card could fit in but the bottom slot was covered over by the GT-730 graphic card's heat sink/fan array and that only left the top slot which this card fit into without a problem. (I had already uninstalled the on board sound's driver and disabled it in the BIOS before I shut down the system to pull it.) I reconnected all the stuff to the system and cranked it up. (I had also dropped 16 gigs of RAM in too.) Everything came up OK, and it booted into Windows with no problem. I installed the included CD's drivers and checked out the installation. Things seemed to be working OK. As is my usually routine, I registered the card thru Creative's Web site and let it check for updated drivers. None found. I then decided to see if my decision on this card. was right. I checked out the 5.1 set up and all the tests seem OK, including the each speaker ID test. I then cranked up some games to see. On Remember Me which has some good places to check the bass and for distortion at high volume levels, I found very little, if any, "shattering" or distortion at higher levels than I would normally use to play the game. Also the sound was much better sounding than before and much easier to catch the small sounds that you might miss in some scenes. Bass was less "boomy" and much more solid. I was very happy with what I heard. I also noted that lack of any background static or other noise. A few other things that I noticed. On my on board sound card, I had to set it up in software to handle my 5.1 system. (That is assign rear speakers and the woofer and middle speakers to the mic in and aux in ports on the MB. This seemed to be being done in software by loading an extra driver to handle this items above the normal driver the on board sound processor would normally use. This is OK, but in my experience, it's better to have hardware ports that are fixed to handle this as the SB Audigy's ports on the card. When I first looked at the memory set up with the on board sound, there were five sound driver items loaded. It seemed that maybe these were aimed at provide what the 5.1 speaker system needed to work right. After installing the new SB card, I noted only two sound card loads and one of those was fore the new SB software that was included with the card and might be able to be disabled if you decided not to use it! So much less memory to enable your 5.1 sound it appeared. The last things I noted which I found interesting was that the chipset of this card was the same brand as the on board sound but the difference in the way they sounded sure easy to hear! This card is a very good purchase if you want to upgrade your sound a bit and not spend an arm and a leg doing it. A good buy! 3/6/16: Update: Rec'd second card of this type and it's as good as the first, but there were a few things on this one that sort of put me off. First, no outer shrink wrap on box as is normally the case on new cards. Second, when card's box was opened, I found that the small slot cover adapter package had been opened. And third, safety anti-static bag of the card itself had been opened and resealed by a piece of tape. These items would indicate to me that this card was opened and removed from the package and was not a factory sealed new card. I have no problem with the card itself as it works great, but if it is sold as a NEW card then it should have not been previously opened and should have the all the factory sealing in tact. It would seem to me that would fit under the classification of a used card rather then new. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015 by C. Weaver
Huge improvement over onboard audio for both gaming and music!
I recently set up a gaming room, so I was finally able to set up my surround sound properly. I'd been using the spdif out on my motherboard. It's a 2013 MSI board so it was a little long in the tooth. The spdif stereo signal I had been using when I didn't have the room to set up for surround was fine, I had completely reasonable sound. My AV receiver is also a little older, thankfully from a time when analog 5/7.1 inputs weren't confined to the higher end gear like they are now. Anyway, I was totally pumped to finally have access to uncompressed surround sound! Only.... The sound was very weak, my subwoofer would never kick on.... I was very disappointed. If I turned on the "bass management" in the Realtek drivers it... worked. On paper. BUT I had no fine control of the crossover which defaulted to way, way too high a frequency and made my speakers sound even worse. No amount of googling was able to offer me any answers. Everyone was saying onboard audio was fine, but I had to do something. So I bought this card. As I read here, I disabled my onboard audio in the bios and installed this card. Right out of the gate it worked! But wait... Still no sub worth speaking of and I couldn't find any crossover settings in Windows 10. I tried to install the Creative software sans drivers hoping it would give me access to that setting without goofing anything up. It wouldn't detect any compatible hardware. I crossed my fingers and installed the Creative drivers, hoping these relatively old drivers didn't conflict with Windows 10. Thankfully that was not the case! Everything worked great! The software let me adjust my crossover setting and everything. But wait, the sub still wasn't meeting my standards. What the heck? This last one was a goof on my part, it seems the crossover doesn't really matter if you have your speakers set to full size. I turned that off and set the crossovers to 80hz..... And it's been the smoothest of sailing ever since. I have much fuller sound all around, the subwoofer always works correctly and music sounds great. Stereo plays on stereo, surround plays in surround. I went on a rampage of reinstalling games that I thought might melt my ears (in a good way!) such as Residents Evil 2 and Doom 2016. I'm in a whole other world of pc audio now, all thanks to this relatively cheap card. I give this little guy my heartiest recommendation! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2020 by Jeffrey Braswell
duality of defect
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The center, sub-woofer, and rear speakers worked but not the front ones. All but the front, indeed. The OS was up-to-date, purchased Windows 10 Home. The driver was downloaded from Creative. It let me touch related settings after installation but the front speakers made no sound, not even some common noises we hear when we touch an audio connector. They just felt dead. Of course the front speakers are fine. I’m writing this with them turned on. After all, there were two suspects. One was the sound card, the other the motherboard(s). I’m careful in using the suffix because although I actually tested the card on two slates, I think they couldn’t be considered discrete two. It seems they are identical, with their different names being just nominal. They seem to me to have been made in the same factory in mainland China with the same technology and the same people but are just being sold through different vendors with different names. I couldn’t find a difference other than the intro image during boot. One presents American Megatrends Inc. instead of their corporate name Atermiter, but the other Huananzhi. If they are really a twin, I was deceived. The reason why I bought conspicuously similar X99 mobos twice was because the sound from Atermiter was stereo only. They didn’t mention a word on surround on their product description page but I had failed to notice that. Yeah, that was my fault. Huananzhi, on the other hand, had surround on the specs flamboyantly. So I decided to place a follow-up order to AliX… again, expecting to get the promised function and be able to satiate my obsession in no time. But I was wrong again. The authorized Windows 10 Home recognized no more than stereo on Huananzhi too. Numerous attempts to install numerous drivers made no difference, overridden by the OS driver at reboot. What added to my sorrow was the vendors’ incompetency to solve the problem while both stubbornly insisting their slates had the function. In the end of the fruitless dispute between me and Huananzhi, the mediation team from AliX.. closed the dispute seller-friendly. I got no refund, no solution, no apology. So, once you get a problematic item you will experience a hell breaking loose upon you to get refund for it in AliX.. even when the seller keeps telling a lie. And the precept made me hesitate in this case. Is Amazon different? To make a long story short as I’m being exhausted now, I took 5 hour round trip to Seoul on Friday Korean time last week and dropped the card on a DHL spot on the way. To my utmost surprise, I got refund on Sunday. That’s how Customer Service is supposed to be. Fast, reliable, rational, and responsible. A textbook! None of which the dubious Chinese retailer has. This is why buying from Amazon is not actually more expensive than from the dork in my neighborhood, let alone chronically weak Korean currency in exchanging. The top-notch return policy was more than enough to offset my grief over the bad purchase, hence 4 stars in total. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2022 by Andrew Lee
Incredible Buy for a Top Performer!
At this price the Sound Blaster/Audiology FX-PCIe sound card is a truly great performer. I only use it with a 2.1 speaker system but it clearly supports 5.1 systems along with several tweaking options. Sound is clear and expansive - almost impossible to believe that this level of sound quality is attained at such a low price. A few install/setup notes: I run Windows 10 and herein lies the issue. Clearly, this sound card has been in production for a few years - long before Win10. I used the enclosed CD-ROM setup disc. It is a waste of time & confusing. Just go to: [...] and download the latest Windows 10 Install Pack, extract, and you are all set. The enclosed CD-ROM is intended for windows 7, 8, whatever. When I used the CD-ROM it kept getting hung up during several steps of the install process. When you finally struggle through, you are directed to the link I posted (supra) anyway. OK. We have the sound card installed along the appropriate Win10 drives - yea! You will notice that you now have an FX Control Panel icon installed in your Quick Launce Bar. (If you do not see it expand your Quick Launch bar and there it is!) The default for the card is for a 5.1 system. As I mentioned earlier, I use the the card with a 2.1 speaker system. So, we need to select settings that will give 2.1 system users the maximum benefit. Here we go- 1) Open the Audiology FX Control Panel (single click for me) 2) Select the "Speakers & Headphones" tab 3) Select "Stereo" (remember card default is 5.1) 4) Check the Full Range box (Front Left & Right) 4) Run test. Happy? Almost done! Now, select the "Mixer" tab from the FX Control Panel. 5) Extend the Speakers slider all the way to the right (full) 6) Inside the Balance/Settings Box: Slide L, R, & Sub fully to the right 7) Slide C, LR, & RR all the way to the left. The Equalizer Tab: Default is "Flat." That is exactly what you want. Leave it alone if you want the music to playback the way it was recorded (or closer to that ideal). One last step you may wish to double check before leaving the FX Control Panel altogether. Look to the very top right of the FX Control Panel. Do you see the small arrow (or whatever it is called)? Open that arrow. Make sure that "Audiology starts when Windows starts" is selected (it should already be so set). That should do it. Hope this helps you avoid the errors I made. UPDATE: After learning how to get into the Dell XPS BIOS (F2 Key) I quickly found the sound enable/disable option. Once the on-board sound chip was disabled and PC rebooted there was a great improvement in SQ. It took some courage for me to enter the BIOS. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2016 by Physics Teacher
A Definite Upgrade in Sound. Recommended for Windows 10.
I studied the Amazon reviews from people giving a step-by-step guide on how to set this thing up for Windows 10. No problems at all. Ignore the installation disk and download the Windows 10 drivers-->disable onboard sound in the BIOS-->shut down and physically install the soundcard-->restart and install the drivers. It was that simple. It already had sound (Windows Startup sound) before I even installed the drivers. That was even with my internet access temporarily disabled while setting up this soundcard, but I installed the official drivers anyway, so I can't comment on just how plug and play this thing actually is. I fiddled with the Audigy FX Control Panel for a few minutes to get the sound the way I wanted it. This was a definite upgrade in sound over the integrated audio on my Dell Optiplex 5050. Crisp, clear sound with the ability to tweak the bass and treble if I need to, which I prefer to go just a little lighter on the bass than most internet content is produced with these days, so the control panel comes in handy. The "Crystalizer" function did seem to give more clarity to the audio. This is only going to a small 2-channel stereo system with two 37 year old 30 watt speakers. You can set up this soundcard for stereo, 2.1 or surround, maybe even a different configuration. I needed it because the desktop didn't have a line in input on the back. Only an audio out on the back and an all-in-one headphone/mic/line in input on the front and I don't want to have to deal with plugging and unplugging a mess of audio cables on the front. My turntable and tape deck are on an A/V switcher and I prefer to have them permanently plugged in ON THE BACK and out of sight. I can do that with this soundcard. I did lose my front headphone jack because it's directly attached to the motherboard without an "HD Audio" cable that would have enabled me to plug it into the soundcard. I guess permanently surface mounted is a way to describe it. But with the mic/headphone to USB adapters I already had for my previous desktop with a broken front headphone jack, it's not too much of a problem even though I still wish I didn't have to use one of those adapters. But, with the awesome sound that this soundcard produces, I can't complain too much. I recommend this soundcard. My records have never sounded this good through computer audio before...and I've had my A/V components (turntable, tape deck, VCR) hooked up through my computers for decades. I agree with what others have said about anyone having problems setting up this card, even the supposed techys, computer savvy experts and PC techs. You probably shouldn't be trying to install any hardware on your computer. Find someone else to do it who will take the time to research the product, watch Youtube videos and read all the reviews for a product before they install or even buy it. Wa-la! Wha-la! Voila! VIOLA! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021 by Cletus Foots
MAJOR Upgrade over the onboard audio!!
Back in 90s I had SoundBlaster cards because motherboards didn't have audio connections for external "stereo" speakers. Then motherboards started coming with onboard audio which I've used with surround sound speakers since about the mid-2000s. I have high quality surround sound at my desk with rear speakers mounted under shelves for a perfect sound playing games. And though my motherboard now is about 6 years old, I started having lots of problems with the onboard audio. From my research these were highly recommended upgrade in both quality and ease of driver installation and compatibility. But WOW! I've gotten so use to the onboard low quality surround sound, which still sounded good through my speakers, that I didn't realize a audio card like this Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX could elevate the clarity, range of lows to highs, and immersed center of sound in a game, and I will never go back to using the cheap onboard audio included on motherboards. But hey, playing high quality graphics games, no one settles for onboard video included on motherboards, you buy a high quality video card to plug into your motherboard, so why settle for the low quality sound on the motherboard; get you a Sound Blaster Audigy FX upgrade! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024 by Evolution
You get what you pay for, and what you get is a sound card that works, but with some problems.
This is a card you should get if you need something cheap and don't have many other options. Right off the back when first installing I got a blue screen. This could be from swapping my PCIe Wifi card since then its been fine booting up since then. So don't freak out right away and just try restarting if you get an issue on your first start up. Audio pop on startup and shutdown. This could be an issue with my aging PC, but with USB sound cards I did not have this issue. The pop is pretty loud, so to avoid this I unplug my headphones when starting up and shutting down. Some audio distortion and static hum is present at random times. I can't determine the exact cause of this issue, but I just used a ground loop isolator to get rid of the static. When doing this I did have to kick up the windows volume from 15 to 40. So if you have very demanding headphones or speakers, this might not be an option. Compared to Sound Blaster's cheaper USB sound card, the audio isn't much better and it has about the same volume output. But cheap USB sound cards have been problematic for me and will just randomly stop working, which is why I'm trying this card out. Hopefully this card will last me at least a year before I finally replace my old PC. Overall I do not recommend this card as an upgrade. Its not worth the potential headache and problems. But, if you're like me and you need a cheap audio replacement that isn't USB based, this might be the best option outside of the ASUS Zonar SE. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021 by Jason
Big improvement over Dell's on-board sound chip
My ca. 2009 Dell shipped with Vista (x64) and an on-board sound chip (i.e., the sound "board" was really just a chip on the motherboard). After I (finally) upgraded this computer to Windows 7 Pro (x64), sound became problematic, even though I used Dell's official upgrade disk that came with the computer (it claimed to have all the correct drivers, including those for sound). For one, closing an application that uses sound (e.g., YouTube, VLC, Spotify, Pandora, etc.) without remembering first to pause playback would cause the sound chip to emit a loud annoying buzz that could only be stopped by re-opening the application, starting playback followed by pausing playback, and only -then- closing the application. The bass was also always muted in playback. I looked around for an inexpensive Sound Blaster card and found this one. I installed it in a spare PCIe slot (remembering to connect the front-case cable to the new card), rebooted my computer, and Windows Update automatically found the drivers for it. I then disabled and uninstalled the old drivers in Device Manager. Finally, I rebooted again, this time disabling on-board sound in the BIOS. Playback was better in some applications, but not others. The buzz was gone, but specifically, YouTube would play audio for a second and then cutout. So, I decided to install the drivers using the driver disk supplied with the card, and interestingly, it re-installed one of the two old drivers that I had uninstalled. However, playback was still "strange" on YouTube. Next, I opened "Playback devices" in the Windows sound manager (i.e., the speaker icon in the Taskbar), and after looking in Configure for the Speakers profile in Playback, I saw that the speakers were configured by default for 5.1 Surround (the computer only has two speakers). Changing this setting to Stereo then fixed my problems in YouTube, and the sound quality blew me out of my chair - a dramatic improvement over what I was used to getting from the on-board sound chip, even back when I still ran the as-shipped OS (Vista). So, this card works perfectly for me. To summarize: 1) Delete all old drivers. 2) Disable on-board sound in BIOS (if applicable) 3) Install new card and attach cable from front of computer case 4) Either let Windows Update install drivers automatically, or use the driver disk 5) Make sure your playback device (most likely, Speakers) is configured properly (Surround v.s Stereo) Excellent sound will be your reward. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016 by Brother Gump
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