Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Creative Labs - www.soundblaster.com

 
The Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 is the newest and greatest edition to the excellent line of sound cards Creative Labs produces. The SB Live! Platinum 5.1 has all the features you could ever need. Whether you download and listen to music, play games, make midis, or plug in keyboards and microphones to sing this sound card has it all. Sound Blaster Live! Platinum provides the combination of digital-quality audio, a full-featured software bundle, and connectivity to external devices from the front of your PC instead of the back! The featured Live! Drive offers front panel connection to home stereo receivers, MIDI instruments, digital devices, headphones, and more.

The SoundBlaster Live Platinum will give you audio signals processed by the full 32-bit, 48 kHz, EMU10K1 Digital Audio Processor (DSP). If you are planning on using this card for gaming mainly you will be pleased to know that this card has Hardware Acceleration for Environmental Audio (EAX), DirectSound 3D and DirectSound so you can get the best in gaming performance. The Platinum's patented 8-point interpolation infidelity produces precise audio fidelity and can utilize up to 32 3D hardware accelerated channels, 64 accelerated channels or 1024 voices.