Summary: Using the supplied Dimaond drivers for this card, it would cause a couple of games to almost instantly crash on me. I tried it in Guild Wars Factions, and it would crash soon as I turned the sound quality selector to its full setting. It also would crash instantly in Nascar Racing 2003.

I then tried the drivers off of the www.cmedia.com.tw website (for the 8768+ chipset). And they too would crash every time.

Finally I downloaded the latest beta drivers for the Auzentech Mystique soundcard(which uses the same chipset). And edited its .inf file so that it had the Diamond Xtremesound card hardware ID inside it (I copied and pasted it from the Diamond drivers .inf file). And installed the driver fine that way.

The Auzentech drivers fixed the crashing problem. Hopefully Diamond or Cmedia will update theirs for the fix also. As its a hassle to do get someone elses drivers to install.

Other than those problems (which I shouldn't have had). I like the card very much. The color coded connections also help a lot when connecting the cables. Plus the price is much more reasonable than other cards, for the features it has.

I'm only giving it a 4 star rating due to the driver hassle/bugs.

Summary: It's easy to install the card in my desktop and the sound quality is noticeably better than the onboard sound chip. I used the Auzentech X-Mystique drive though. But for the price, I won't complain.

Summary: This card sounds great listening to Pandora in Dolby Digital 7.1, which is what I bought it for. I don't play games so I have no comments about that aspect of it. It was a severe pain in the butt to install and make work properly, but that could have been as a result of my system and not the card. All in all, I recommend it.