Creative Audigy 4 Sound Card

Former staff writer - December 10, 2006
Category: Sound Cards
: Gfcity Computers
Price: $79.99 USD

Introduction

Weather or not you are an avid gamer, or a music buff, you will no doubt at some point want to upgrade from onboard sound to a soundcard. Now depending on what your budget, as well as what your tastes are will dictate which card to buy. This review will be focusing on the Creative Audigy 4 sound card. While this is the latest in the Audigy series, we will see if bigger is indeed better. For as long as I can remember Creative has been the biggest supplier for soundcards across the globe. Being founded all the way back in 1981 in Singapore, creative has been a mainstay in the computer audio world ever since.

Closer Look

Since this an OEM card, you don’t get a fancy box like the retail ones come with, instead you get the card, a driver disk, and a 24bit sticker (not shown).

Removing the rubber bands that hold the driver disk to the card, I could see the top of the sound card. Shaking the card out of the anti-static bag, gave me a look, at my new piece of audio driving device. Being a relatively small card, using mostly surface mount circuitry, this card has a fairly small footprint.

On the side there is the standard hookups, Line in, Mic, Line Out, Sub, Surround, as well as a line level hookups, all located on the back of the card with color coded jacks.