crap-at-games
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hi guys im just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on a sound card for 5.1 surround sound ive got about £50 to play with thanks
sound card
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Excalabur50
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An Asus Xonar DG or DGX will serve nicely I think
crap-at-games
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Hi im going to plug my headphones into it the connectors on my headphones are as follows
PINK 3.5
GREEN 3.5
ORANGE 3.5
BLACK 3.5
and a usb connector
thanks
PINK 3.5
GREEN 3.5
ORANGE 3.5
BLACK 3.5
and a usb connector
thanks
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or if you can find one, a Creative X-Fi (not a zxr/recon3d)
SuB
The Webmaster
>.< Asus drivers are coming, don't buy a Z on account of drivers taking a little longer for Win10.. honestly.
shambles1980
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i stoped using creative when they stopped putting "what you hear" as a recording device in drivers, i have to use REALLY old drivers on my creative card downstairs because i use it for my mixing and i need the what you hear option.
it makes no sense to remove it either. they said it was to help prevent audio piracy, but apps like xplit can record audio direct any way. so whats the point.
it makes no sense to remove it either. they said it was to help prevent audio piracy, but apps like xplit can record audio direct any way. so whats the point.
SieB
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Use the Uni Xonar drivers instead of the official Asus ones, they are better and updated on a regular basis. Windows 10 support was added in early September with the Uni drivers while people were still waiting on Asus to add support to the official drivers :\
http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/
http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/
crap-at-games
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AlienALX I'd go the other way, Soundblaster Z.
I have been looking at this card it seems good
I have been looking at this card it seems good
barnsley
born in a.....
Its pretty slated on here.
crap-at-games
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Ive been looking at the one without all the fancy cover and without the mike my friend has got the one whats closed in and really likes it
cooperman
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unless you are an extreme audio nut or a professional musician i wouldn't worry about a sound card.
On board audio has come a long way in recent years and some cheap sound card's can actually be inferior to onboard sound cards found on mobo's.
You can spend that £50 somewhere else more usefull,
I can run a game of BF3 with such intensity pluging in a AUX lead in to my technic stack system with a AUX to MIC (3.5mm Stereo Mini Jack Plug - 2 x RCA/Phono HiFi Cable) that the entire street feels the crack of a sniper rifle or the exploshon of a grenade.
On board audio has come a long way in recent years and some cheap sound card's can actually be inferior to onboard sound cards found on mobo's.
You can spend that £50 somewhere else more usefull,
I can run a game of BF3 with such intensity pluging in a AUX lead in to my technic stack system with a AUX to MIC (3.5mm Stereo Mini Jack Plug - 2 x RCA/Phono HiFi Cable) that the entire street feels the crack of a sniper rifle or the exploshon of a grenade.
The_Mard
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Heyyo,
I only bought a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Z because they're awesome and I hated my Asus Xonar DX... reason? Back when Windows Vista came out, Asus Xonar DX sounded like the perfect fix for a premium soundcard that would give me Direct Sound hardware accelerated sound with ther GDSX... but that ended up being a flop with crackling audio like mad and the lack of driver updates to fix them and if a game crashed with GDSX enabled? The last second of sound would loop infinitely until you rebooted your PC... bleh. Creative Lab's aLchemy worked pretty darn good for converting Direct Sound calls to OpenAL... of course this is no longer an issue these days since games haven't used Direct Sound in nearly a decade lol.... but I still say USB DAC since electromagnetic interference is still a potential issue for add-in cards and USB DAC is a safer bet... but don't expect day-and-night sound difference, just slightly better as long as you have expensive monitor speakers or expensive headphones.
On the earlier Windows Insider Previews? Yeah the Sound Blaster Z/Recon 3D drivers sucked... but Creative Labs put out an updated one on release day of Windows 10 and they're awesome... just... don't try and use the Z/Recon 3D on Linux with a 64bit kernel. It's been broken there for over two years and no fix... works fine on 32bit kernel though. :\
Tbh this too... besides, a USB DAC is a safer bet. No chance of electromagnetic interference which most add-in soundcards are at the risk of being susceptible to.
I only bought a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Z because they're awesome and I hated my Asus Xonar DX... reason? Back when Windows Vista came out, Asus Xonar DX sounded like the perfect fix for a premium soundcard that would give me Direct Sound hardware accelerated sound with ther GDSX... but that ended up being a flop with crackling audio like mad and the lack of driver updates to fix them and if a game crashed with GDSX enabled? The last second of sound would loop infinitely until you rebooted your PC... bleh. Creative Lab's aLchemy worked pretty darn good for converting Direct Sound calls to OpenAL... of course this is no longer an issue these days since games haven't used Direct Sound in nearly a decade lol.... but I still say USB DAC since electromagnetic interference is still a potential issue for add-in cards and USB DAC is a safer bet... but don't expect day-and-night sound difference, just slightly better as long as you have expensive monitor speakers or expensive headphones.
This may sound harsh, but sound blaster is fine for people who can't tell a difference between excellent quality audio and average quality audio.
For the audiophiles out there most will agree that Soundblaster have lost their touch. STX I and STX II are great audio cards and I have zero issues with Win10 drivers using the Xonar Unified drivers.
I do cringe sometimes when I see people saying the SB Z is a good card. The last truely amazing SB card I had was the Audigy 2 Platinum which had zero latency lag, was perfect for studio recording and guitar line in input and amazing surround sound. I lasted 10mins on the SB Z before returning it after testing it with my Sennheiser HD800s.
For the audiophiles out there most will agree that Soundblaster have lost their touch. STX I and STX II are great audio cards and I have zero issues with Win10 drivers using the Xonar Unified drivers.
I do cringe sometimes when I see people saying the SB Z is a good card. The last truely amazing SB card I had was the Audigy 2 Platinum which had zero latency lag, was perfect for studio recording and guitar line in input and amazing surround sound. I lasted 10mins on the SB Z before returning it after testing it with my Sennheiser HD800s.
SuB
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The X-Fi was creative's last hurrah, that card was beast. The SBZ does *not* use hardware it uses software, which is why the boards are so bare of circuitry it's a ruse!
It's not so much about the fact that an STX sounds better, it's more about the fact Creative want premium-level money for a card that just uses software without any hardware acceleration, and it shows.
if you can find them!
