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Product Description
Based on the award-winning Sound Blaster 16 technology the Sound Blaster 16 PCI delivers the same high-quality audio with the performance increase of the PCI bus. Sound Blaster 16 PCI provides CD-quality stereo sound with low CPU utilization and great wave-table music that is ideal for home business and Internet applications. Sound Blaster 16 PCI allows you to hear the difference with better sounding music and multimedia in your Windows applications. Full Plug-and-Play support is built-in so setup is "hassle free" for any PC setup. Every signal is processed and mixed with a 16-bit digital audio engine for high quality. Sound Blaster 16 PCI provides support for positional 3D sound technology to provide spacious sound on headphones or 2 speaker configurations. The Sound Blaster 16 PCI is the most affordable Sound Blaster PCI product to date. Get a Sound Blaster 16 PCI and hear the difference for yourself. Primary InformationForm Factor :  Plug-in card Interface Type :  PCI Sound Output Mode :  3D Sound DAC Data Width :  16-bit Sound Synthesis Method :  Wavetable Max Sample Rate :  48 KHz Max Speakers Qty :  2 Interfaces & Connections :  Compliant Standards :  Sound Blaster MPU-401 DirectSound DirectSound3D General MIDI Sound Blaster Pro Sound Blaster 16 MPC3 Full-duplex support UNSPSC CodeUNSPSC Code :  43201502 Product IDUPC:  054651072244Manufacturer Part:  3000473000003

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Sound Blaster 16 Pre-Amp
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  • Publisher: Creative Labs
  • Label: Creative Labs
  • Studio: Creative Labs
  • Sales Rank in Electronics: #140757

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Audio, better than on-board sound....Ideal for running DOS-games., December 14, 2007
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Megamannt92 (Harrietta, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sound Blaster 16 Pre-Amp (Personal Computers)
I bought this for a older computer, to run older DOS games with Sound Blaster. It works excellently in that regard, it runs all my older games(like Descent, Duke Nukem 2 ect.)it also has more crisp sound than my on-board motherboard sound. It also is excellent for using a MIDI keyboard, as the waveset sounds very cool.

Its quite aged now though, so obviously its not as good has some of Creative's newer models. But overall it works pretty well for a basic computer setup. I have it currently installed in my new P4, still way better than that of my motherboard.

If you want a good card for newer gaming though, buy a Sound Blaster X-FI.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage., December 16, 2006
This review is from: Sound Blaster 16 Pre-Amp (Personal Computers)
Product came with no documentation whatsoever, no installation CD. Attempted to install this on 2 computers. "plug and play" install did not work. downloaded the appropriate drivers from Soundblaster and informed me that NO soundblaster card was found on my PC. attempted to contact vendor,no email was available, only a long distance phone number. Threw it in the trash.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Bare Bones, July 24, 2008
This review is from: Sound Blaster 16 Pre-Amp (Personal Computers)
The drivers for this card are indeed hard to find and install. Creative has so many different variants of their drivers that it took many different attempts to locate the right ones. Windows XP Professional did not install this card as plug-and-play, so my only option was to hunt down the drivers. In the end I found the right ones, but it was a lot of work. For those not driver savvy avoid this card for sure.

The most disappointing part of this story is the performance. It does fine for most basic sound generation on my 2.0Ghz Pentium 4 system (YouTube clips, system sounds, etc), but I suspect that it is a weak link in MP3/AAC playback in iTunes. Music played back in iTunes skips and stumbles frequently making it unbearable to listen to. Upgrading to the latest Windows XP service pack, iTunes version, and Quicktime along with DirectX 10 did not alleviate the problem. I have never experienced this problem on any system with XP installed, including systems with far lower...Read more
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