I picked up a Steelseries headset with a 7.1 USB sound card yesterday afternoon as I was tired of shopping for a set of speakers that are small enough to be placed in the mini home office…
An interesting thing to note about the USB sound card is that although the box or the website does not say that it will work with Windows 7, it does work… There were no issues with the driver installation and I have not experienced any form of weirdness so far…
The 7.1 mode works well with games and seems to be easier to set up under Windows 7 compared to the 7.1 mode of the Asus Xonar D2X pci-e card… So far I’ve tested it with Resident Evil 5 and COD 5 and they both sound great… Movies seem to have benefited from my little purchase as well as they sound awesome (note: all except for the Dolby Digital Night Mode which sounds a little muddled even though it is supposed to make the speech more distinct)… Overall I highly recommended purchase if you are willing to drop RM 350.00 – RM 400.00!!!
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