THE SOUND BLASTER PRO GAMING AE-5 PLUS

Measuring 145mm in length, 128mm in height and 20mm in thickness the Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus is a rather small to medium sized model.

Purely for comparison purposes i placed the Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus right next to the larger Sound Blaster AE-9 and NU Audio Pro models.

Aside the external RGB LED strip the Aurora lighting system also includes RGB LEDs placed beneath the cover both at the front and top of the Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus.

This 4pin connector is where you will need to plug the external RGB LED strip into.

One Molex power connector and the usual connector for the front headphones and microphones ports are located at the rear of the card.

Unfortunately, there's no rear aluminum cover on the Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus (still the black and white color theme looks nice).

Moving at the front we find the 3.5mm microphone/line-in port, 3.5mm headphone out port, three 3.5mm 5.1 line out ports and the TOSLINK (SPDIF) optical out port.

The flexible external RGB LED strip features a total of 10 LEDs and is expandable.

Here you can see the Sound Blaster AE-5 Plus while plugged into the EVGA Z390 DARK motherboard (some of you may notice that the card is not in the same slot, that is due to a software issue which i initially tried to resolve by switching PCIe slots).