How good is Asus PCIe Sound Card

Garethman!!` · 01-11-2008, 08:01 AM

Hey all, how good is the Asus Xonar D2X sound card? It does look very nice http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829132005 but at $189.99 is it worth it over the Creative $65 PCIe card. And yes, unfortunately, it does have to be the PCIe interface leaving me with only 3 cards to pick from.

Currently I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE PCI which is blocking my GPU Fan.

vito · 01-11-2008, 12:36 PM

Creative's drivers under Vista 32/64 are absolutely diabiolical, the sound quality is very poor. I'd personally steer clear of Creative and Vista. I have an X-Fi Audio and I'm changing that for the PCI version of the Asus card as soon as I can afford it.

01-11-2008, 08:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
Garethman!!` Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: UK and USA Age: 17 Posts: 908	How good is Asus PCIe Sound Card Hey all, how good is the Asus Xonar D2X sound card? It does look very nice http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829132005 but at $189.99 is it worth it over the Creative $65 PCIe card. And yes, unfortunately, it does have to be the PCIe interface leaving me with only 3 cards to pick from. Currently I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE PCI which is blocking my GPU Fan. __________________ CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-53 1.70GHz RAM : 8GB DDR2 PC6400 / 2GB DDR2-667 PC5300 A-DATA HDD : 750GB SATA Seagate Barracuda/ Western Digital Scorpio 250GB 7200RPM GPU : Radeon HD2900XT 512MB / Radeon Xpress 1150 128MB OS : Windows Vista Ultimate x64 / Windows Vista Home Premium

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01-11-2008, 12:36 PM	#2 (permalink)
vito New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1	Creative's drivers under Vista 32/64 are absolutely diabiolical, the sound quality is very poor. I'd personally steer clear of Creative and Vista. I have an X-Fi Audio and I'm changing that for the PCI version of the Asus card as soon as I can afford it.