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Diamond XtremeSound 7.1/24 bit Sound Card ( XS71 ) | 
| Brand: Diamond
Category: CE
List Price: $35.98
Buy New: $24.99
You Save: $10.99 (31%)
New (37) Used (1) from $24.99
Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 6550
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.6 x 2.9
MPN: XS71
Model: XS71
UPC: 757448005004
EAN: 0840356695280
ASIN: B000CFSL4A
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Device Type - Sound card | | • | Interface Type - PCI | | • | Sound Output Mode - 7.1 |
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Product Description
Diamond Xtreme Sound allows the user to experience high level, theater quality sound while watching videos, listening to music, and playing games all in true 7.1 channel surround sound. This is an essential upgrade for anyone interested in increasing their computer audio experience while freeing up valuable computer system resources.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Unreliable November 24, 2008
This thing sounds wonderful ... when it works.
Problem is it only works for short time, then totally loses it's mind and freezes up my system. I can rarely listen to more than 6 songs in a row without total meltdown.
It is much better at ripping MP3's, but about 1 out of 25 songs need to be redone as the encoding causes MP3 players to skip huge sections of the song.
Save your money, buy something else.
 it does the job October 21, 2008
well lets gets this straight I broght this sound card for a old p4 running at a decent 2.6 GHz 2GB of ram for a old dell 3800 and need a new sound card 2 run vista OS. the driver software won't work with vista have to go and download the lastest driver from diamond multmeida.Gave it to a friends mother and cost me $100 after minor upgrades.The sound won't blow you away ether spend more money else where or upgrade ur GPU card or mobo with better intergraded audio codic.
Theater Quality October 14, 2008
This card installed without any problems and gets the job done. I have never heard my computer sound better. The sound is theater quality. I would recomend this to a friend.
A no brainer.... September 21, 2008
I was (and still am) stunned that such a product is available for $30. Installation was a snap, software is fantastic and the end result is brilliant. It completely completely blew away my expectations. I have the digital coax connected to a Yamaha sound bar and sound is excellent. DVD's, online shows are fantastic.
The software offers a lot of configuration options based on your speaker positions, strategy (5.1, 7.1).
It's excellent... end of story :)
Inexpensive and works fine with Vista August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this sound card because the onboard 7.1 audio on my Dell Inspiron 630 desktop was outputting an annoying background hum at higher volume levels. I had this computer for a year and never noticed that hum before recently obtaining a new set of Logitech Z-5500 5.1 speakers. The new speakers are so good that it makes all audio flaws more obvious.
After considerable research I concluded (correctly) that this card would work well with Vista Home Premium (32 bit). I also wanted the ability to connect via the digital SPDIF connection (coaxial). I would have preferred a card that had both optical (TOSLINK) and coaxial, but I had a higher priority to keep the cost reasonable. Cards that have optical, coaxial, and analog connectors are a minimum of 4 times the cost of this card.
After disabling the onboard sound (in BIOS) and in the Control Panel, I installed the XS71 card. Upon booting the system automatically found the best driver over the internet connection.
My first evaluation test was using the new XS71 analog connections which are identical to those I had used on my motherboard. The same annoying hum was still there! I then switched my speaker system to the coaxial connector (both sets of connector types were plugged in at the same time and both were sending audio). To my delight the hum was finally gone!
The coaxial audio has a much lower volume level than the analog connection, but even after increasing the volume all the way there was no sign of any hum or other interference. I'm not an audiophile by any means, but if the audio was improved compared to the onboard sound, I couldn't detect it.
I use the computer primarily for business purposes with occasional viewing of movies and on rare occasions a little gaming (Command & Conquer). For these purposes this sound system really is overkill. If I did a lot more gaming or had a discerning audiophile "ear", I likely would still not be 100% satisfied with the overall audio quality and would be very tempted to try out one of those much more expensive cards.
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