Worse than the chipset of my notebook ...

So there I flabbergasted. Card received this morning very quickly thanks to the Premium free trial. So far no complaints. I plug the card, I install the drivers, I even downloaded the software available on the website for download. Then come the hour of testing. I said that I expected of this card is that it gives me a superior listening quality to that offered by the chipset of my notebook. I think my expectations could not have been more realistic. And then, what was my surprise at test after test, the quality was a better RI-GOU-REU-SE-MENT identical to the chipset even well below what I got before for quality sound. Even the sound effects by fiddling with the software, you get a metallic sound, deaf. To be honest, the only positive surprise was for a Jazz piece that made me significantly exceeded that of the chipset.

Then come the test on video games. And yes, because it is according to the description THE highlight of the card and there ..... distressing. The software detects yet compatible games and expensed by the map for a better sound. Warcraft III and Call of Duty first name appear in list. I run call of duty, I set the sound settings to the maximum rendering quality and there ... is the drama ... really worse than without the Creative card, I redid the test without the card and I ' I even liked the sound by contrast effect, is tell you ... So still a positive point, the report on Warcraft III is not bad, it gives the echoing voices of the characters but no big deal .

Music, video games ..... ah yes, I forgot the movies .... miss nothing to see, absolutely no difference with the chipset or worse.

So I also tried on a desktop PC with a recent config, and there is even worse, yet the original card ..

Conclusion: see this card as a SPARE card in case of faulty internal card, broken, but NOT as a more value !!! Do not expect any gain because you will be VERY disappointed !!!

I still have a month to return it to Amazon, to prove my good faith, I will persevere in my tests but without much hope ... the good thing in all this? Finally I find the original sound of my old Toshiba laptop is not bad at all :) to the wise