In some PC cases, you could place the daughter card on the side of a case, off the motherboard and free-standing.

This comes after the daughter card not needing any sort of connection to the motherboard, allowing your to place the card wherever you see fit. The cable that’s provided by Creative offers a good extension, meaning the cards can be placed on opposite sides of the motherboard. The daughter card has RCA as well, but this is used for recording purposes rather than output, and also has the optical input and output. This card is in-turn connected via a cable to the daughter card, which is designed to provide those that want to record or use optical out/in as an option. This base card is connected to the PC via a PCIe connection. The design of the sound card is also very good, as there is a good amount of inputs and outputs on the cards.įirst of all, the main base card has 2x 1/4″ jacks, RCA (left and right) and 2x 3.5mm jacks. A small but nice feature to have included by Creative there. To add to that, the theme goes on, with the ACM – which is very well designed and also looks great! What I love about the ACM is that it has both 1/4″ jacks and 3.5mm jacks depending on your setup. Starting with the looks, something that might concern a few that have a window in their PCs, it’s safe to say that the ZxR looks really nice – it has a red trim which would suit any PC that has a red theme, such as if it were coupled with an AMD card, in my case I had it with my MSI GTX 960, which has a “red dragon” theme which fits very nicely with the ZxR. Overall, the contents are excellent and I really like the presentation Creative have utilised. What you get in the box is excellent – the only thing that’s missing, for those looking to swap op-amps (more on this in the sound quality section) then you’ll have to use your own tools – it’s not exactly hard to use any sort of pliers, but it would have added that little bit of extra class to the included package contents.

Cable to connect the two cards together.

Audio Control Module (ACM) with 3.5mm to 1/4 adapters.

The accessories you find within the beautiful package is: Here’s my video review on YouTube to complement the written review: It is yet again a great honour to have received the product to review.įull specifications of the ZxR can be found on Creative’s website. Pros: Overall sound quality, recording options, inputs/outputs, design and look, softwareĬons: Price, full compatibility with certain games, no included tools to swap op-ampsįirst of all I would like to thank Creative for sending me out the Sound Blaster ZxR Sound Card for review.

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