just buy some regular headphones, not that gamer-marketed shite.

jep, gaming headsets are (mostly) crap, gaming 5.1 heaedsets are even more crap

So even the tritton ax51 that plugs into your sound card wouldn't be as good as stereo headphones?

jup, it's still a 5.1 Headset with all its limitations

i wouldnt buy anything by a company with a shitty ass name as "Cyba Snipa" lol wtf cant they jus spell it correctly instead of trying to make their shitty ass products sound cool? Cyber Sniper wouldve sounded like .01% better.

So just regular stereo headphones with a desktop mic would be better overall? I just want to hear footsteps in cs:s

Something like one of the Sennheiser HD's?

jep, HDs or some Audio-Technica (ATH-AD700 for example) do a very good job

instead of a desktop mic you could also use a clip-on mic (Zalman ZM-MIC1)

avoid the CyberSnipa sonar 5.1 or the SPeedlink Medusa 5.1 (both are the same)

Get a quality card and some goos stereo phones

Is the Soundblaster audigy SE a good enough card for headphones like the HD485?