Pros: - Digital Output - Joystick Port
Cons: - Poor driver support

The SoundBlaster Live! Value suffers from poor driver support, and will slow down your gaming experience when you're using hardware acceleration.
The card is easy to install and the documentation is acceptable, but a lack of driver updates makes...

Pros: Good value, equivalent to most cheap cards
Cons: annoying glitches, sound quality

Well, I have to say that I do not like my sound card. When I got it a couple of years ago, I researched thoroughly and saw that Creative was about the only company left making high-quality cards. They sell the majority of sound cards today. Only Hercules...

Pros: Above-average sound quality, reasonable prices
Cons: Inadequate drivers, lousy software

Purchase

If I could sum up my experiences with the SoundBlaster Live! with a song, I would have to go with "Don't Believe the Hype."

While I'm happy to see other reviewers in this forum had successful installations with their...

Pros: The best cheap sound card if you just want to hear sound through your speakers.
Cons: A little more money can get you a better Sound Blaster.

Don’t be fooled by the picture above where it says “Geared for Gaming”. This may have been true two years ago, but now there is a much better card called the Sound Blaster X-gamer that is much better for Gamers. I recently replaced my Sound Blaster...

Pros: Best 3D sound and EAX support for the money.
Cons: Might not work with some VIA Chipsets.

Well what can I say, I was getting tired of my Sound Blaster PCI128. I mean it was able to play sounds but offered next to no 3D sound support for my new DX 7&8 games.
So I went to the local computer store (RA computers in Ottawa). I looked at the...

Pros: price, quality
Cons: none, really

I got my SB Live! Value after I bought a new set of surround sound speakers for my computer (P3 450, 128RAM) and didn't have enough output plugs. Why did I get the Live! Value? It's cheap, it has 5 plugs, 2 of which are for output signals (one for main...

Pros: Fantastic audio quality at a low, LOW price! =D
Cons: Not much, this card is simply great =)

I must commend Creative Labs for another great product. The Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value is simply the best there is in the market. At a price of around $50, you get to enjoy quality sound that will satisfy that audiophile in all of us =D
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Pros: great sound
Cons: great price

I am enjoying this card! It didn't cost an arm and a leg, but I can listen to my CD's while I'm doing my monthly bills and not be able to tell the difference between the computer and my daughter's portable player. The sound is full, with good quality....

Pros: everything is included
Cons: cheap speakers

Do you need great sound at a great price? Have I got a kit for you? Yes, a kit that includes everything you need to upgrade that aging sound system installed in you computer.

This kit includes everything you need, sound blaster live sound...

Pros: Great Card, lots of features..
Cons: Haven't found one yet.

When I built my system, I had been searching for card that would acuratly recreate music in a midi format. After much consideration, with features included in my considerations, I decided that the Sound Blaster Live value card was the card for me....

Pros: Great sound.
Cons: Didn't work.

I just bought a new PC (Dell Dimension 8100 - review coming soon), and I had the choice of 2 different sound cards when I was on the phone with the salesman. The other sound card (I don't remember what brand or model) had Dolby, THX, and all sorts of...

Pros: Sounds GREAT, lots of cool games come with it
Cons: None!

There is a very good reason why Sound Blaster is the current industry standard for sound cards and why all other sound cards must be classified as 'Sound Blaster compatible' if they ever want to sell - it is the best.

This sound card is very...

Pros: Great sound,EAX impressive.
Cons: Play center2 software on SB live Entertainment 5.1 better.

I just assembled my PC a few weeks ago.I was on a tight budget but I opted to get the Altec Lansing 45.1 speakers. I had to forgo Geforce MX2 and settled for a TNT2 M64 graphics card instead.

A friend got me a second hand Tera Sound...

Pros: Great sound, great price.
Cons: The usual Creative fudge duplex problems.

The folks at Creative may not appreciate my opinion of the SoundBlaster Live Value PCI soundcard as much as some of the others. This card sounds great, but in the past I have not been pleased with SoundBlaster cards. I’ve returned two of them: first the...

Pros: Cheap. Fantastic sound.
Cons: Um... there are cons?

Well, the actual Sound Blaster Live! Value was made in 1998, but it still kicks even the newest sound card's butt. The sound is crystal clear, even on my old speakers from 1995, from my old compaq. Nice piece of hardware. The multi-channel audio is...