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What sound card do you have? And do you love or hate it?
I'm an m-audio Revolution 7.1 man, and I love it.
Fitted a X-Fi last week for a mate, and it was not as bad as I'd feared for software, and his CoD skills went up immediately cos he can hear people coming now! His onboard was not much cop tbh.
XFi extreme music, the one withut the X-RAM, love it, am considering getting the PCIE with XRAM next
Well, I have an Audigy 2Zs in man rig and an Audigy LS in other rig.
They are both great cards although I think my Audigy 2Zs is a bit dodgy.
I use mine for gaming and movies.
I've heard great things about X-fi and Xonar cards; tempted but not a priority component for my system at present.
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude.
I got it mainly for the Dolby Digital Encoding so I could use it with my surround system, However, due to Samsung being shoddy (not an isolated case unfortunately), the sound gradually goes out of sync over time (less than an hour and it's very noticable).
Onboard FTW.
I'd be a cretin if I bought anything special given my audio setup.
Besides, onboard is very good these days, and the CPU overhead is negligible, and if you want advanced 3D effects... in software... then by all means go for it now that quad-core ain't all that expensive.
Aye Aye,Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve
I'd go buy one though if the onboard drivers were crap though. The Realtek ones are quite gay if you use Vent and TeamSpeak because you can't adjust the mic volume through Windows.
Me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mithrandir
With Creative 5.1 speakers (that aren't set up properly)
I have an Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 in my main gaming rig... and an Asus Xonar DX (PCI-E) in the second gaming rig :bowdown:
But I've also still got two older gaming rigs... one of which has an Auzentech HDA X-Plosion 7.1 DTS Connect, and the other a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 ;)
I like to experiment :mrgreen:
SB Audigy 2ZS - awesome piece of kit.
But I'd happily settle for any of the HD onboard chips now.
Asus Xonar D2X - Could never go back to creative after hearing the difference in clarity and using drivers where every function just works (as they should!)
Razer AC-1 in main pc
Asonic 8768+ thingy in media pc
Audigy2 ZS - it has had a couple of problems in my Nforce 2 mobo, IRQ conflicts, drivers not recognising its there and a couple of other things, but once its working its fantabalicious, sounds great with my home theater setup. annoys my parents, neighbours and ducks.
no soundstorm on that mobo? so close and yet so far :(Quote:
Originally Posted by stevie lee
audigy 2
X-Fi thing with a set of Creative Fatality Headphones...
X-fi fatal1ty champion series, had no problems with it so can\'t complain too much. am tempted to have a look at the new asus xonars that are coming out though....