 I upgrade my creative desktop DTT3500 to GD580 rec ... Strengths: Great for DVD movie
Weaknesses: You will only have a 2 channel output if you are playing PC game.
Summary: I upgrade my creative desktop DTT3500 to GD580 recently. Advertised as a high end console for DVD home theater system and PC games, it's true it's great for watching DVD movie. You'll have DTS and Dolby digital decorder. You can hear amazing sound from each disreet channels if you watch moive either from DVD player or DVD-rom. But it's a gabbage for PC gamer. After setting it up for a while, I found I can only have 2 channel output, front left and right on PC. I'd to admit I'm not a PC professional, but not a newbees, too. I was thinking of it's not my misconfigaration. So I contact creative technical support. I got the following reply. It is common to hear only front right and front left channels from a multichannel capable receiver when it is connected to the Digital Out jack on a Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2, Audigy 2 ZS card. As for GD580, the only audio input left for PC sound card is coaxial. You can only use a coaxial to connect sound card digital output jack and decorder. Unfortunately, the digital connection here is not as good as what you have on Inspire 5700 or DTT3500 which are capable of multichannel connection. So you can only hear front left and right on PC using GD580. There are software applications, for example, the Creative CMSS, that can replicate stereo audio to a surround sound. But this kind of modification doesn't work well for PC games. For instant, in Call of Duty which is the recommended game by creative, you should be able to hear sound coming from its own direction, but you cannot experience it at all. So avoid this if you're a hardcore PC gamer.
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