well, it may be "just a sound card", but it sure is a good one ... I thought the Creative Audigy sounded good, but this one sounds even better ... so keep posting those music demos guys ...

BTW ...while I've had great success finding info on-line to help me get this 'new' PC together, there were some comments about this sound card that almost scared me off ... a couple said 'do NOT use the supplied software disc" as it created problems with Win7 ... well I didn't initially and after installing the card and hooking up the speakers I turned the PC on ... Win7 found the drivers, etc. but I still had no sound ... after trying a number of options, I 'bit the bullet' and put the software cd in ... it lead me to a couple of instructions that got everything working fine ... fortunately ...