SIIG SoundWave 5.1 PCI – sound card ( IC-510012 )
SIIG SoundWave 5.1 PCI – sound card ( IC-510012 )
- Device Type – Sound card
- Interface Type – PCI
- Localization – English / United States
- Signal Processor/Chipset Vendor – N/A
1.Transforms your PC into a home theater system with multi-channel surround sound 2.Experience the latest in digital 5.1-channel surround sound for the latest DVDs, games, music 3.Customize internet audio with the power and surround sound of EAX audio technologies 4.Fully compliant with Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro and DirectSound
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(out of 6 reviews)
List Price: $ 22.89
Price: $ 9.93
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Review by Alice Poe for SIIG SoundWave 5.1 PCI – sound card ( IC-510012 )
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I purchased this card earlier today and so far, so good. It’s affordable, installation was quick and easy ( I’m no tech expert)and the sound quality is great. Another reason that I bought it is that it is backwards compatible with Win 98SE, unlike some of the other cards that I checked out.
Review by anonymous for SIIG SoundWave 5.1 PCI – sound card ( IC-510012 )
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If you are a musician and need hardware MIDI in a PCI slot complete with a ‘game port’ interface, then this card is for you.
Review by Selvakumar Duraisamy for SIIG SoundWave 5.1 PCI – sound card ( IC-510012 )
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Bought it as a replacement sound card for my inbuilt sound card. This PCI card was easy to install, works fine and no complaints yet.
Review by David for SIIG SoundWave 5.1 PCI – sound card ( IC-510012 )
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Although the sound card itself seems to work well enough, the software it’s packaged with doesn’t allow your music players to play 5.1 sound. When the company tech support (“Trung”) is called (find them in an online phone book, he tells you that it won’t play in anything except 2.1 unless you buy another $100 piece of software. So is it really cheap? Actually, after MANY hours researching on Google, I couldn’t find any software that would do what they said, and they wouldn’t recommend any particular program … I was able to get Winamp to play in something close to 5.1 with their own internal settings (no center channel). Apparently, that’s the only way to make this work. Every program, except Windows Media Player (that seems to work fine) needs to be individually tweaked. MusicMatch doesn’t have the internals to make that happen and so it will only play in 2.1. A company selling a product, no matter how inexpensive, should not tell you that software is included and then later tell you that “the software doesn’t allow you to have the board function at it’s capacity. Try to find one that will…” — Oh, and there’s no port on the board to allow for a digital audio cable connection from your cd or dvd player. You must use analog. I’ll have to now go out and buy a Creative product, they always come with good software, INCLUDED.
Review by Lawrence W. Stephens for SIIG SoundWave 5.1 PCI – sound card ( IC-510012 )
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This review is for the updated model, IC-510012-S2 that has replaced IC-510012. Turned off “on board sound” in bios (this must be done). Installed board. Power up computer. Put in CD. Run Set up. Plug in speakers (non-powered, will switch to powered later). Using just 2 speakers. DONE!! Worked first time. For a $16 board this is more then I expected. The software controls are top notch for a board this price. Multi band equalizer has user configurations or several custom modes. Room environment has 3 settings. A little adjusting and I’m set. 10 times better then my on board sound. This went in a new computer with Windows 7.