Comments for: Xonar sound card goes PCI Express

#2. Posted at 10:16 AM on Oct 8th 2007, Edited at 10:24 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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albundy

wow, look at that price tag! if asus gets one off the shelf, it will be a miracle!

edit: just realized that the x-fi elite is $50 more. asus should take a second look at its pricing.

#2, They're hoping people will buy it since it's like the only P... : rythex (#48) «

#48, Try again this is a PCIe card not a PCI-X part. Try here ... : z-man (#49) «

#2, Its seksy, shiny, and new. Give it 6 months and it will eith... : IVAces (#50) «

#37. Posted at 10:08 PM on Oct 8th 2007

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AbRASiON

Does it do DD 5.1 encoding on the fly?
Is it actually good quality?
Can it do up to EAX 5.0 in hardware (not likely) :/

Glad it's PCI-e but honestly, I'm sticking with onboard until a card does those 3.

#37, You have fun with that onboard chip. You're probably using a... : crabjokeman (#39) «

#39, In 5.1...... ? : AbRASiON (#45) «

#37, Auzentech X-Fi Prelude. The features aren't completed yet an... : MadManOriginal (#47) «

#40. Posted at 11:26 PM on Oct 8th 2007, Edited at 11:31 PM on Oct 8th 2007

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DukenukemX

You guys should really visit the World of Warcraft forums. There's threads Such as this lovely topic.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2200230322&si...

Apparently Blizzard removed hardware sound when they updated their sound engine for use of VOIP. Turns out there's a lot off pissed of Creative owners spewing nonsense. Like hardware acceleration produces better sound quality and other such crap.

I'd swear it's like Creative employee's are posting there.

#40, Funny that hardware-accelerated audio has already been dead ... : Krogoth (#42) «

#42, That's what I've explained. It's not Blizzards fault that... : DukenukemX (#43) «

#43, You two decide what sounds great! Yay! : droopy1592 (#46) «

#3. Posted at 10:19 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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5150

Soundstorm.

Just wanted to get that out of the way.

#3, Aye. : FireGryphon (#5) «

#3, Is/was overrated. Just wanted to get that out of the way. ;) : Vrock (#17) «

# indeed there are. : swaaye (#23) «

# SOUNDstorm you blind fool, not SANDstorm d'uh... : Meadows (#24) «

#24, Yeah SoundWave was the coolest decepticon. : ssidbroadcast (#32) «

#32, Shockwave games are overrated. : evermore (#44) «

#17, You're overrated. JWTGTOOTW :^D : 5150 (#30) «

#3, What a buggy mess that was. And bad sound quality unless you... : swaaye (#22) «

#22, Hear, hear... :) Da Creative haterz seems to turn a blind... : TravelMug (#26) «

#22, The only thing neato about it was the real time Dolby Dig... : Vrock (#27) «

#27, what, film producers don't use xonar cards? oh the hum... : albundy (#31) «

#31, DDL is brilliant for those using digital connection... : carburngood (#36) «

#27, The only thing neato about it was the real time Dolby ... : SonicSilicon (#35) «

#8. Posted at 10:30 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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flip-mode

High end soundcards are lame. Ah, that takes care of my trolling for the day.

#8, They only make sense for audiophiles. At least sound cards a... : Krogoth (#9) «

#9, and $900 coax! : droopy1592 (#11) «

#9, $199 is not an audiophile power cable. Not by a long shot... : Taddeusz (#20) «

#20, People that dumb deserve to get ripped off. : Bauxite (#41) «

#38. Posted at 11:07 PM on Oct 8th 2007

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slot_one

I thought that thing had a HSF at first glance! Kinda shocking!

#34. Posted at 04:10 PM on Oct 8th 2007

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Forge

I'll take my 0$ onboard crap, thanks.

Failing that, my Linux boxen still lurve their Audigy2 ZSes. They're getting absurdly cheap on FleaBay, too.

#33. Posted at 02:50 PM on Oct 8th 2007

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ssidbroadcast

Regardless of cost or worth, this is actually a pretty cool looking card.

# The PCI version was recently reviewed by a German gaming mag... : Stefan (#29) «

#12. Posted at 11:43 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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Stefan

I understand EAX support is pretty much nonexistent in this card. Is that correct?

#12, With Vista's new handling scheme for audio, EAX is moot. It'... : titan (#25) «

#25, Not true. "OpenAL allows direct hardware acceleration of ... : Stefan (#28) «

#18. Posted at 12:36 PM on Oct 8th 2007

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PRIME1

SLI?

#10. Posted at 11:34 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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Captain Ned

After Diss reviews it here, it'll likely replace my sainted TBSC.

#10, TBSC FTW!!! : mongoosesRawesome (#13) «

#10, With Vista's new sound API blowing away the soundcard market... : continuum (#16) «

#7. Posted at 10:29 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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Krogoth

The good = finally a good audio 1x PCIe card! DBL and good fidelity! :)

The bad = ASUS's questionable past product support and $199 USD >: |

The ugly = $199 MSRP is probably to cover Dolby and Creative licensing fees.

What needs to make this product be FTW: drop the MSRP to $99 and ASUS being commit to deliver decent support.

#7, There are no Creative licensing fees here as all the card su... : TravelMug (#15) «

#14. Posted at 11:55 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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Archer

Hmm...there are cables out there that cost 15k per set.

I'm sure I can find more expensive ones if I look.

#6. Posted at 10:20 AM on Oct 8th 2007, Edited at 10:20 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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Jeffery

Here is the PCI version:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132001&Tpk...

I really want one, and will probably fess up the money for my next build, but the price is indeed difficult to swallow.

#4. Posted at 10:19 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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FireGryphon

They have to be competitively priced to sell, but I like what I see!

#1. Posted at 10:04 AM on Oct 8th 2007

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droopy1592

I can't even find the PCI one