Sound Blaster

I'm at my wits end here: I have a Creative Soundblaster AE7 I've been using for quite some time now, with no problems. Me and my buddies got online for the first time in months today, and for whatever reason my microphone no longer picks up any audio. OS is Windows 11 x64. What I've done...

I own a Sound Blaster X3 and bought a new set of Logitech Z906 5.1 speakers to replace my blown Logitech Z607's during the post-Christmas sales. I want to use analog speakers for gaming and movies that use codecs other than Dolby Digital (Sound Blaster X3 only supports Dolby Digital Live for...

Hello All! Happy 4th! I am currently using a Sennheiser HD650 headset and its connected to Creative's Sound blaster Z. I've heard a lot about how amplifiers like the Magni make sound come to life, so i wanted a suggestion on which amplifier best suits my setup. Gaming and movies is what this...

I have a Sound Blaster Rx/5 that runs my 5.1 surround sound home theater system and was wondering if the Creative ALchemy program that came with it does anything beneficial. I use Windows 10 64-bit Home and if there's any other info that would be helpful I could give let me know. Thanks for your...

Hello! I just got my XMG laptop, the A523 model. It has a Sound Blaster cinema 2 card. Installed Windows 10 64bit on it, installed all the drivers found on the official website. But whenever I try and run the Sound blaster cinema 2- it says that there are no devices found. What do I do? I...

Hello, i have a ModMic 4 conectet via CREATIVE Sound Blaster Omni Surround. My microphone randomly freezes and the only thing that make it work again is to reconect the external soundcard. I have tried to reinstall all drivers, trubleshoot the microphone, change back and forth on whats standard...

Hello! So I have some old-ish LG speakers a subwoofer and a DAC (amplifier) however I never thought about doing a 5.1 surround sound setup on my room with my PC because mainly I didn't knew how I got the gist of it however I'm in between buying a cheap USB OEM Sound Card (around 20 dollars) or...

I've never added a sound card to my gaming PC and I just upgraded the PC (on a 3 year cycle, this was a good time for it). I have some money left over, and I was thinking about upgrading the sound. All the recommendations I see are for gaming with headphones. I have a 5.1 surround system...

Hi, I currently have a Gaming PC with a dedicated sound card, the Sound BlasterX AE-5 and a pair of Edifier audiophile grade stereo speakers along with the Sennheiser HD 600 headphones. I was wondering if it'd be worth it to get a high quality DAC in order to get a superior sound quality vs...

Hello, I want to upgrade my audio setup. I would like to know which device will send better signal to my 5.1 speakers. I have a possibility to buy second hand AV reciever Pioneer vsx-323-k or I'm thinking of buying new AE-7 Sound blaster sound card. Which will produce better quality of sound...

Hi all, I hope this is in the correct place. I also have doen a ton of searching both here and on the net with no help yet. What I would like to know is this: I have creative sound blaster tactic rage 3d wireless gaming headset ( I know, could they make the name any longer ?). Anyways, I broke...

So I have just bought all the components for a pc I’m building, Ryzen 2200g MSI B450M - PRO M2 Corsair 2400 ddr4 ram 8gb (1x8) Corsair 650 watt 80+ gold PSU 1 TB hatachi 7200rpm HDD 500 Gb Samsung EVO ssd And I also put in a GTX 1060 6gb card So I reseated the CPU, Changed ram slot, plugged...

My guess is power or cooling. Full tower Cosmos C700P case, 2x140 front fans, 1x140 rear fan, 2x 140 top fans. I9 7900x, liquid cooled, Single GTX 1080 Ti, liquid cooled. 54GB trident RGB 3200, Win 10. Have seen 183* Fahrenheit on CPU package (in Neverwinter, 4K) and 165* on GPU. Have a 1200W...

Hello, I'd like to help my brother to choose a graphics card from these 3. His specs are -i5 6500 -8gb 2400 ddr4 -Cooler Master 600W psu The cards in question are: Gigabyte GV-N1060WF2OC-3GD 273 usd Gigabyte GV-RX580GAMING-4GD 273 usd MSI RX 570 ARMOR 8G OC 210 usd Thank you :)

My MIL continually screws up her Chrome tabs, and basically cannot function unless its set to a certain look. She is 82 so I guess Im good with her at least trying to try to use today technology, but its taking a lot of my time to fix silly user issues. It isnt difficult to change it back, but...

If a mobo writes they are compatible with rams between 2133 and 2933mhz ddr4, does it match with all of them? Is it possible for ram to be 2133 +ddr4 and not match it? Help I need to customise the order ASAP

Hey, just a quick question. I bought an EVGA 500w 80+ White PSU in 2015 for my current build (upgrading) and wanna know if I can skip buying a new power supply and just use the current one I have now. Here's a link to what my new build will be. I know 500watts for my pc will be enough, I just...

Hey I'm doing a budget build for my younger brother and was wondering if the was good. The purpose is to have a low cost build, but can upgrade it in the future to make it better. My absolute budget is $340 no more. Please tell me what you think. CPU- Ryzen 5-1400 ($50) CPU Fan-CRYORIG - M9a...

What are some compatible coolers for MSI MS-7593 X58M SLI Motherboard

Hi there, So I have the rest of my new budget build decided but I recently found a 570 4gb card for $100 each, the $580 8gb is just over $210 in most places, this one is $190. Would I be better off grabbing the two 570s? I am leaning towards that option but wanted some input, I'll provide...

When will be the prices of intel 8th gen CPU'S drop in india I think they are already decreased in USA

currently i am using Asus H97-Pro Gamer motherboard. Can someone advise me which SSD to get? want to get one with around 500gb storage. Can my motherboard support NVME ssd? It has M.2 slot Planning to get either 1 SSD below: 1) Samsung 860 Evo 2) Kingston A1000 m.2 NVME 3) Crucial mx500 Can i...

Hi everyone, So it's time for me to get a new pc (the last one died and was a 2011 laptop). I decided I wanted to be able to play some recent games, and don't have an immense budget so I settle for a custom config I will assemble myself. I never did before but I'm patient and looking forward to...

It looks like theres 3-5 small LED RGB lights behind the top right corner of the board. I thought you had to download aura sync to control them but when I open it I only see an option to control my RAM. Any ideas? I also have NZXT lights and a kraken x62 that use RGB LEDS as well as a GPU...

is there a fire wire board that will plug in to this slot.

OK, I thought I had this solved.... the BTI-010 pairs to my Bose Soundsport wireless earbuds, but in the transmit mode, I'm not getting audio...

I read somewhere that OEMs only work on the specific set of components they were installed on. Will it still work if I changed my CPU/GPU/Motherboard or RAM and stuff? And what about if I change my keyboard mouse and other peripherals? (don't judge me pls I'm a noob)

I have a DDR4 kit of two HyperX 8GB modules. The exact model is hx426c15fbk2/16. In the memory specs it says that the CL is 15 in one of the JEDEC profiles and in the XMP profile. I have tried different approaches - setting the XMP profile or configuring the timings manually but when I boot...

I want to upgrade a component or two to increase performance on my csgo. I run it on a ssd, i5-7400, gtx 1060 3GB, 8gb ddr4-2133 single on dual channel, low settings multi core on. 4:3 1280x960. 25” hp omen 144hz 1ms monitor. I want higher minimum frame rate and to be able to run high settings...

So as a few people may know, the new forza horizon 4 will be coming out soon in october. I have a big issue CPU related. System specs: AMD FX 6300 Black Edition @ 3.5Ghz Radeon Saphire pulse rx 580 8gb 16gb ram My cpu is going to struggle with only 3 cores and old hardware. Is it worth...

Will the 710 graphics card work with my m2n68 la mother board??

My mother brought her laptop to me to fix after letting my nephews borrow it. Which resulted in the computer moving at an extremely slow pace. Since the only thing, my mother had on the laptop that she cared about were her sims 4 characters. I spent a few hours getting the saved uploaded to my...

Hello, I was playing league of legends and my pc crashed with a grey screen, i turned it on again and the monitor didnt show the bios bootup, when i spammed del this showed up: any ideas what happened?

I recently tried to fix my brother in laws operating system with my computer by hot plugging his hdd drive into my computer. When I did this, it didn't read it, but sparked really bad when I plugged it in. I restart the system and the hdd started sparking like crazy. I unplugged it immediately...

Welp we bought the connectors to attach the HDMI cord to our TV becasue this modle tv is old got all that done and now no sound

Like I said above, do I need to re-buy Windows 10 if I install another motherboard and CPU but keep my HDD? I've linked my key to my account on Microsoft but i'm unsure if I need to spend more money on Windows 10

I'm building my first pc at this moment. Already purchased all my components. I just wanted to know before I do anything with the computer. Will my CX550M (550w, 80+ bronze) PSU be good enough for a GTX 1070 Ti and a Ryzen 7 2700X??? Since this is my first build I'm not planning on overclocking...

Hello I play fortnite on my own self built pc and I updated it to the last driver which is 17.1.2 and now it asks me to update it to 17.1.2 but it says I have the Adrenalin 17.1.2, I looked into the amd Radeon settings to see if there’s any update available and it says it’s up to date. Can...

My PC Specs are as follows -Intel Core i5 750 2.67 GHz -8 GB Ram -Windows 7 Ultimate -Geforce GTX 950 -Segate 1TB hard disk drive There are times where my PC boots slowly and sometimes not at all. But thankfully, this only happens occasionally and when I restart my PC, it seems to work out so...

So I've been neglecting to upgrade anything in my PC for a while now, but with my cooler finally going out on me I'm being forced to take a look, and since I'm replacing that I figured now is as good a time as any to start looking at other stuff to replace. Pretty much anything would be an...