Padarsey PCIe 5.1 Internal Sound Card for PC, Windows 7, 3D Stereo Audio Card, CMI8738 Chip, PCI Express Adapter

I bought the Pardarsey PCIe sound card 5.1 because the onboard soundchip of the motherbord does not work with windows 11. The card is easy to pin on the motherboard (PCIe). At this moment the cd-player was not connected. Windows 11 does not find the drivers. "If you want to download online drive cause don't have a CD driver. Please click this this link:", but there is no link... After a half hour I have found a driver. After little weeks I have connected the cd-player. You see immediately the ranking win 7, win 8, win 10... The installation of the software is easy. These drivers are better. Windows 11 gives the version 6.12.8.1737 (year 2009). The function "search automatically for drivers" has updated the drivers to 8.08.1743 (sept 2012). The card works very well with 2 speaker. The price is very well.

During install it crashed my computer. I had some audio playing without sound to test it while I installed. It got halfway through, the sound started and then the computer restarted. I tried it again and then I had to go into Safe Mode to get it to boot.I did everything right: disabled onboard audio in BIOS and other audio devices in device manager.Wasted a lot of time.

So far the installation on my new PC with Windows 11 Pro was flawless, the fitment was perfect, however I still had to manually load the proper Driver of the device for Windows 11 Pro to run it. The process was very simple due to the provided Mini CD containing the Driver. So far, the Sound quality is good enough for my usage, I am currently using the Analog Port, however I will test the HD Digital Port for functionality as well. So, we'll see how it goes for a couple weeks, but so far so good....

The card works as advertised, good price and is exactly what you see, good small card. my only complaint is the software is awkward and took a few mins to set up properly (hardly any explanations of what things are or how to set it up properly & you if you dont have a disk drive you gotta go to some weird website in amazons descriptions to download the drivers and its a .rar file so have winrar ready!), for some reason the speakers are backwards, software shows where left and right speakers are suppose to be but when playing sound its reversed, i just swapped the cables on the back of my amp and its fine but weird. still recommend for anyone that doesnt want to spend $40-60 on one just know you might need to tinker with it a bit. overall works and plays 5.1! found out chrome and firefox doesnt support 5.1or 4k videos tho as a FYI so if you test it use microsoft edge....sigh.... or download thx videos and sounds to test it out. really hate us edge....:'( just a friendly tech giving advise to anyone that might not know some of these things when looking for this. Best of luck!!!

Ok, I will try to make this short LOL. AS other reviewers have stated this thing is a PITA to install on w10 64. However, I am a nerd and very versed. That said I did get it to install and it works. Now, I bought this card for one reason, here is why, NOTE I have an SFF Dell ergo 2 open slots, one is used by my video card the other WAS used by my USB 3.0 which I sacrificed to put this card in. I'll live. Back to why I needed a card was to have a line in to go from my fire radio to my blu-tooth earpiece. Hence, I have headphone out from radio to line in on the card, funny it pipes the audio to my blu-tooth sound bar just fine, just not my ear piece. YES it is all set up the sound bar works fine via blu-tooth from my computer. Yes, I changed output to my ear piece no effect. So I am wondering if any nerds out there have an idea. NO I do not have the Cmedia-Panel I'll see if I can find one though and update, other wise the card works fine. Again, the only reason I bought it was for the above my onboard audio works fine for my audio purposes, just no line in. As a test I did hard wire my headphones to audio out on the card and that worked just fine ?????? weird.

So far the product is working as advertised.

it works and now i can use my speakers and headset, but i still have to use my USB to audio connection because the mic port on this is messed up, having a lot of static and also making my voice sound like a squirrel. So basically got it for the one working port on it for the speaker

The disc they sent would not automatically install the sound card on my computer. I had to open the files on the disc, select the file that fit my Operating system on my computer then tell it to install. I had expected to simply install the card and the computer or disc would do the rest, but it works and that’s all that matters. I had to get this card because my internal sound card on my mother board was bad. There is a slot on your mother board to plug this card in. Unplug your computer before installing, and clean all the dust out while your in there, i used my vacuum cleaner and an old toothbrush. Also, make sure you select the new card to use in your volume control otherwise you might still be trying to use the wrong sound card.