Creative Sound Blaster Zx PCIe Gaming Sound Card

High Performance PCIe Gaming Sound Card Clad in brilliant red shielding and featuring glowing LED lighting that will be the highlight of any power gaming rig, Sound Blaster Zx is the bad boy of the Sound Blaster Z-Series ultra-high-performance sound cards. With an impressive 116dB SNR and bursting with high-grade hardware and software features, this complete home entertainment audio system is hard to beat. Features: A signal to noise ratio or SNR of 116dB means your audio will be more than 99.99% pristine, which is over 35.4 times better than motherboard audio. SBX Pro Studio™ sound technologies create unprecedented levels of audio realism, including stunning 3D surround effects for your speakers and headsets. Experience crystal clear communication with your teammates with the CrystalVoice™ suite of technologies that removes echoes, ambient noises and picks up your voice from within a zone (Voice Focus). When used with CrystalVoice Focus, the bundled beamforming microphone creates an acoustic zone and suppresses noise outside it, enabling you to be heard with amazing clarity. Enjoy reduced latency with Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) support with the Sound Blaster Zx. Hear your audio recordings come to life! Stereo Direct lets you listen to your music pure and unprocessed at the amazing bit rate of 24-bit 192 kHz. With Sound Blaster Zx's gold-plated connectors, speaker optimization technology and digital content encoding capability, you can be assured of only the best digital audio possible. The multi-core Sound Core3D™ audio processor is designed to offload SBX Pro Studio and CrystalVoice effects processing from your primary CPU, improving your overall PC performance, resulting in drastically superior audio and voice quality. Connect to your home theatre system through a single digital cable and enjoy cinematic DVD movies by transforming any stereo or multi-channel streams into high fidelity immersive surround sound. With the Sound Blaster Z-series Control Panel, just toggle between your headphone and speaker system with a flip of a switch. Clever applications of clever technology for clever people Specs: Output: 5.1 Channels Audio Processor: Sound Core3D Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR): 116dB Connectivity Options (Main): Headphone: 1 x Amplified 3.5mm jack Speaker Out: 3 × 3.5mm jacks (Front,Rear,C/Sub) Line / Mic In: 1 × 3.5mm jack Optical Out: 1 x TOSLINK Optical In: 1 x TOSLINK Headphone Amp: Up to 600 Ohms Max Channel Output: 5.1 Channels System Requirements: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo or AMD® equivalent processor, 2.2GHz or faster recommended. Intel®, AMD® or 100% compatible motherboard Microsoft® Windows® 8 (32/64-bit) ; Windows® 7 (32/64-bit) 1 GB RAM >600 MB of free hard disk space Available PCI Express® (x1, x4 or x16) slot Available CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive