If you want to make the most of your system’s sound quality it’s not just your speakers you should be worried about. As the true audiophile knows, decent sound cards are just as important. The Creative Labs Sound Blaster is perhaps one of the most popular models of sound card, and has been around since the late 1980s. External sound cards are great if your PC doesn’t have inbuilt sound card of its own and you’d like a boost in audio quality, while 5.1 and 7.1 sound cards are the one you should go for should you be looking to make the most of a surround sound speaker setup.