The inclusion of integrated audio solutions on every motherboard pushed discrete audio solutions into the luxury purchase market. So why do...

Clear; Full Body Audio on All Channels; Built-in Headphone AMP Supports Headphones with up to 150 Ohms of impedance; Includes Low Profile Brace for low profile HTPC cases; Well written User's Manual

Included Quick Start Guide is almost useless; Audio Quality not Noticeable with Low Bit-rate Audio Sources

Affordable, feature packed, 5.1 channel sound, headphone amp and built in S/PDIF, this is the ASUS

An awesome card for headphone users. You get a nice built-in headphone amp, along with dolby headpho..

BUY.com sent me a used card (all of the packaging was opened) but I decided to install anyway. Used the included drivers as well as the Win7 drivers from the ASUS website. Two bluescreens later I am returning the product.

Card works great and sounds great. Much improved over the "Headphone Virtualization" from my onboard Realtek and the MIc quality might be even better (it was very good with my onboard). Front Jacks work perfectly though you have to make sure you set it properly (i.e. AC97 or HD).

Dolby Headphone is great for those wanting good surround positional audio on their stereo headphones - Headphone Amp is a nice touch - Good sound quality

- For $30 its hard to really complain about anything

This card has been one of my most frustrating tech purchases. I needed a card to output 5.1 through an optical digital connection for playing back movies. I was leery of this card after the negative comments, but the advertising said it does it.

I was skeptical to say the least, I'm quite the audio-enthusiast and was looking for a card that wouldn't break the banks after recently building a new home media/gaming computer. I was shocked frankly.

Headphones amp

For this price none

Great value for money, highly recommended especially if you have a high-end gaming headset that needs some extra impedance. The software has loads of features. My previous creative sound card cost almost 3x as much and doesn't nearly have the value you get from this card. Good buy.

Great soundcard. Easy install. Port for front PC headphone jack. Bought headphones to life after suffering cruddy onboard audio. Built in amplifier works well. Not huge amounts of power, but a huge improvemnt will be noticed. Software supplied has an excellent and easy to use equaliser!

This card is really decent for the price. Has the ports most people would need (3.5mm, and S/PDIF-out). Headphone amp is pretty nice. I bought this card originally to be able to get 5.1 audio from my sound system over S/PDIF.

Price; compatibility; ports,and ease

No Dolby Digital Live