I have the card not buy here, but with a larger electronics stores, but still want to get rid of my experience after just over a year.
On the card itself can not be faulted. Ordinary processing, sufficient connections (I myself operate on the map the way a relatively cheap 5.1 system, which is connected with 3 plugs), sound quality is significantly better than that of the motherboard chips, which I have used before; the supplied remote control is also quite nice - if everything is clear!
The problem, in my view the driver. Although these are all common Btriebssysteme in 32- and 64-bit version available, however in my opinion just poorly written. The so-called. "Entertainment center", via which the sound characteristics of the map can be controlled, for example, does not minimize to the system tray. The first thing I do after every system startup, is to start the entertainment center and the profile of "Headphones" to "2.1" or "5.1" switch. The headphone option is namely pre apparently, what can also be changed anywhere. Thus, the card connector every time the PC is back in the headphone mode.
Furthermore, the card has from time to time some "dropouts". For example, can be every few days the volume of my card no longer adjust "from the outside" - in other words the large volume knob on the card has no function and the remote control signal also becomes unresponsive it - for me not terribly bad, but at a 60-soundcard not necessarily understand. Because after a power again plug in the USB cable again everything works fine, I suspect even here the Creative driver as the source of the problem.
All in all an acceptable map, from the but would expect a little more for the price (primarily a bug-free driving!). Maybe I'll try my luck again soon and switch to an internal card (the same price).