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24th September 2008, 09:49 AM
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New sound card advise
Chaps I'm after a new sound card somewhere in the region of £60 doesn't matter if it's PCI or PCI-E. I've looked at the Asus Xonar DX 7.1, Creative X-FI Xtreme Gamer and Xtreme Music.
So suggestions? Sorry no links due lack of iPhone cut+paste.
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24th September 2008, 10:17 AM
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Avoid the X-Fi imo, go for one of the Xonar's, cracking cards and of course in PCI-E flavour. Better drivers, better component quality, more all round options.
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24th September 2008, 12:54 PM
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Another thumbs up for the Xonar DX. I have one and it's great.
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24th September 2008, 01:16 PM
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Isn't the onboard sound card any good? Just asking as these days it doesn't really seem necessary to get a Sound card to me...
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24th September 2008, 01:17 PM
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I've had a X-Fi for about 3 years now with no issues, in fact now I've moved to a laptop I actually really miss it. Personally however if I were to invest in a new sound card I'd have one of these.
M-AUDIO - Audiophile 2496 - 4-In/4-Out Audio Card with MIDI and Digital I/O About 50 notes and the sound quality is second to none.
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24th September 2008, 03:29 PM
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Ordered Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express Soundcard in the end see how we get on
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24th September 2008, 05:19 PM
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onboard! my on board even does real time DTS encoding, which is fuckin handy via coax/optical SPDIF to my surround amp stack.
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24th September 2008, 09:34 PM
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agree with the peeps on onboard sound,
tho i am suprised peeps are still buying creative cards considering how shit they have been with legacy products and shit drivers
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25th September 2008, 10:35 PM
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Well It arrived and installed fine. Thus far only one slight problem being that when using the Front Audio header it does not auto switch and mute to headphones and has to be maunally selected while the on-board did
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