Asus' Xonar DX sound card - The Tech Report - Page 1
A real eye opener I felt - i'm sick of Creative and their crappy drivers and it looks like on Vista there's little reason to bother with XFI (and a lot of reasons not to).
I might get one of these in for comparison.
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stevie lee (10-04-2008),Uriel (10-04-2008)
Thank god there appears to be a credible alternative to Creative for the gaming/home theatre market. I had to wait until a couple of months ago for Vista drivers for my emu card and my 18 in/20 out card seems to be missing 12 ins and 14 outs. I'm not best pleased. It doesn't work with sonar at all. Their driver development is a joke - time to let the dinosaur change or die methinks.
My X-FI still doesn't work quite right on Vista x64. I'm sick of pissing about with creative driver hacks but I *do* want to keep the high SNR quality it produces. It looks like the DX and DX2 don't differ enough to justify going for the high-end model making the DX a bit of a bargain.
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my thread on another forum about it
I am in the same boat, I'm going for an auzentech X-Fi Prelude though (aparently all incompatibility issues are pretty much sorted)
I looked at that but there's a creative chip on board and I'm not convinced they have driver-freedom if you know what I mean. Seems to me like hardware-acceleration matters little in Vista-land and less so still in the world of multi-core CPUs. Oddly in that test the Xonar has less cpu utilisation than the X-FI.Originally Posted by finlay666
I'd use onboard sound but I can tell the difference (quality wise) hence I still want a discreet solution.
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As do II am on Windows XP at the moment for the extra grunt it provides over Vista, and while my X-Fi works great in XP, sadly many compatibility problems with games such as Test Drive Unlimited force me to use onboard.
Creative lost the plot years before vista appeared on the scene, I dumped the Creative cards in favour of the Hercules Game Theatre XP cards. Best sound card I've ever had. Now that's died I will be looking into the Asus offeringIt's a shame Hercules didn't improve and expand on the Game Theatre line.
Would one of these fit onto an IP35 Pro... not quite sure.
meets my minimum requirements.Code:jms@osc-franzibald:~$ modinfo snd-virtuoso filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-12-rt/ubuntu/sound/alsa-driver/pci/oxygen/snd-virtuoso.ko license: GPL description: Asus AV200 driver author: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> srcversion: 944B9136ED385F72DF7A7DB alias: pci:v000013F6d00008788sv00001043sd000082B7bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000013F6d00008788sv00001043sd00008269bc*sc*i* depends: snd-oxygen-lib,snd vermagic: 2.6.24-12-rt SMP preempt mod_unload parm: index:card index (array of int) parm: id:ID string (array of charp) parm: enable:enable card (array of bool)
What problems do you get in TDU?As do I
I have an X-Fi in XP and also TDU and I have had no problems at all.
I think he meant he had problems in Vista with it
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Ahh. That's pretty pants. Vista is far from being new anymore. Bloody slackers.
I really like my X-Fi but I'm not sure I would ever buy a Creative card again in the future. The cards are great for watching films and listening to music and stuff, but they are too expensive for JUST that. Part of the price I assumed was that they are good at home music recording etc, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I've been doing a bit of that recently, and everyone cringes whenever I mention my Soundblaster... They all use fancy sound cards with numerous 1/4inch instrument and XLR inputs and stuff, and the signal quality is always very clean. Puts soundblasters to shame.
I was wondering which soundcard to bung in my new pc, onboard audio just doesn't work with a £4k B&W speakers.
was thinking about the asus for a while now and it has been added to my list (saves me searching for a review, thanks dangel)
due to a lot of problems with my audigy 2 zs on xp, don't realy trust the x-fi to work properly somehow...
just need some money now.
I have an old soundblaster auidigy 2 ZS, great card imo but didnt know how much it cost(came with my old rig i bought off a person i knew), goes strong with 5.1surround sound, newer cards @ £100+ are put too shame xD, can never justify that much spent on it tbh.
Creative have been going downhill in the soundcard area but ive had very good experiences with speakers, even using a £17 5.1 surround sound i bought off scan instead of them £35.
Perhaps MS did us all a massive favour by changing the sound model in Vista then?
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Have been going?Creative have been going downhill in the soundcard area but ive had very good experiences with speakers, even using a £17 5.1 surround sound i bought off scan instead of them £35
For windows 2000 era, they had buggy drivers if you had more than one CPU (including virtual, ie hyperthreading).
There drivers have always been a bit of a joke.
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