What a Creative way to listen to Games...

[Johnny T]

Creative SB is just a brand name. My personal experience with CMSS for music is the same as the OP's, it utter crap. This looks like a sort of USB sound card + headset solution.

I call for more pics!

@Detlev, at the end of the day, this is a gaming product. So it makes sense that the OP did it from a gamer's point of view which I am guessing is essentially what he bought it for.

[da1writer]

Originally Posted by Johnny T

Creative SB is just a brand name. My personal experience with CMSS for music is the same as the OP's, it utter crap. This looks like a sort of USB sound card + headset solution.

I call for more pics!

@Detlev, at the end of the day, this is a gaming product. So it makes sense that the OP did it from a gamer's point of view which I am guessing is essentially what he bought it for.

Agreed, I mostly have CMSS off when I am listening to music, CMSS is only on during my video watching and games. I will try to post some more pics sometime this week !

@devilcm3: I personally didn't see much resources being used (hogged) up while I used the headset, and my games didn't get hit hard or hardly at all (between 2 to 5 frames lost but no biggie in my opinion). I think that "fear" that people talk about external USB sound sources is kinda non-existent but I also overclock my CPU and GPU :P... so maybe that's why I don't see much of difference when using it or not.

[DetlevCM]

Originally Posted by da1writer

Agreed, I mostly have CMSS off when I am listening to music, CMSS is only on during my video watching and games. I will try to post some more pics sometime this week !

@devilcm3: I personally didn't see much resources being used (hogged) up while I used the headset, and my games didn't get hit hard or hardly at all (between 2 to 5 frames lost but no biggie in my opinion). I think that "fear" that people talk about external USB sound sources is kinda non-existent but I also overclock my CPU and GPU :P... so maybe that's why I don't see much of difference when using it or not.

I'd say its more:

"Today's computers are so powerful that a CPU driven "soundard" does not lead to significant performance loss otherwise"

Imagine a 1950ies car, attach today's caravans to caravans to it and see what sort of a performance hit you get.
Get a large modern SUV and attach the caravan and see what performance hit you get now

[da1writer]

Originally Posted by DetlevCM

I'd say its more:

"Today's computers are so powerful that a CPU driven "soundard" does not lead to significant performance loss otherwise"

Imagine a 1950ies car, attach today's caravans to caravans to it and see what sort of a performance hit you get.
Get a large modern SUV and attach the caravan and see what performance hit you get now

That's what I meant, thanks ! While the headphones now are a bit more than what I paid for them (lowest I've seen recently is about $70 on Amazon), I still believe they are pretty worth the price (moreso IMO). Gaming [and music] wise, this headset sounds wonderful (crisp sound and great surround) especially since it's from Creative of all people .

[Handsomerob]

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[kent1146]

Good lord, those are some ugly looking cans.

[Reptyl]

I've bought this awesome quality headset together with a friend...Something no tests mention or focus much on is the Microphone..We can hear a loud sort of static noise. The same noise from both our mic's when talking together...Any clue where to go with this problem, or how to fix/improve it?