Pros: Great sound
Cons: Annoying Start Center

The Soundblaster Live Value is a wonderful sound card. It provides really clear, crisp sound that makes games really exciting. Unfortunately, I am not able to evaluate the card's full potential, since I only have 2 speakers. I would guess that this...

Pros: great dsp, cheap, marketshare, low cpu usage, support
Cons: not so good 3d gaming

Creative has been the leader in making sound cards, but this card is not as great as it is hyped up to be. Albeit, it is a great improvement over previous generations of sound cards, but it still lacks features that prevent me from loving this card.
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Pros: Best card out there
Cons: Crackling with most VIA based motherboards (socket7)

I have a SBlive value and a VIA based motherboard. I have been in touch with the newsgroup and I can confirm that if you have a VIA motherboard and buy a sblive then you'll hear crackling from a little, to the more popular ALOT. Well, watcha going to do...

Pros: Ease of install, real Creative compatibility
Cons: Unable to use older Dos games due to IRQ problems.

Bought the Value because a friend of mine had bought the original big one, with all the extra connections and bells and whistles. I didn't need the other things, but his raving about it convinced me to get one. Found a SB Live on Ebay for 50$ when they...

Pros: Supports 3D positional audio and EAX, excellent sound quality
Cons: Liveware is worthless and Creative tends to be very, very slow at producing new drivers

The next generation of PC audio is here, and its name is Soundblaster Live!. I got a Soundblaster Live! Value about a year ago because the integrated audio in my Gateway was really quite awful. I chose the Live! Value because it had a low price, some...

Pros: Great card, excellent sound, amazing price
Cons: Is not as good as the Soundblaster Live! Platinum

I purchased this product because a friend that said he loved it recommended it to me. This product would benefit anyone looking for a quality sound card without having to worry about the price. Anyone looking to listen to high-grade multimedia should get...

Pros: Great Sound; Easy to Install; Good Features
Cons: Can't think of any

I purchased the Sound Blaster Live! Value to replace the junky sound card that came with my computer originally. I have found it to be a wonderful addition to my computer hardware setup. It has made DVD movies much more enjoyable, and has improved the...

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: 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, great surround sound, good quality
Cons: none

This has to be the best soundcard available at the moment along with the other variations of the Live range like this one and the Live Platinum. The good thing with this card is that it is pretty cheap and can be picked up for around £45-00 and yet it...

Pros: Nice sound...
Cons: but not from all of our speakers.

We just got this sound card in our new HP Pavillion pentium 4 PC. Brand new computer, just out of the box. When we set up our speakers (nice creative labs five-piece set) we began having problems.

After playing around with the setup and...

Pros: 3D sound, good configuration utilities
Cons: not much bundled software, no onboard memory

While great for gaming, this card leaves much to be desired for the aspiring musician. Beneath the polished sheen of 3-D sound posistioning,a familiar beast resides; the Sound Blaster Live Value is more closer to the old Sound Blaster Awe 32, then it...

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: - 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: 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...