ASUS Xonar D1 Sound Card

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This sounds way far better than my Creative X-Fi cards, like eXtremeMusic, and eXtremeGamer. Right after making use of ASUS Xonar, I'll by no means buy Creative's cards once more. Inventive cards are overhyped and using poor components. The card uses a lot more processor usage even though gaming, but with a Core i7, it doesn't matter! This is a should have for all music lovers who want to have an cheap sound card however get pleasure from excellent music. Btw, don't overlook to buy a pair of excellent headphones or truly great speakers.

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This sound card delivers much better sound than the one particular in my Motherboard. None Its low profile so it permitted me to place my other PCI Cards in my slots :D

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It seems like it has the prospective to sound great. It never ever works proper. No matter how significantly I fiddle with the settings, it will not play 2 channel audio more than all of my speakers. In fact, it randomly shifts the audio in between only the front, only the back, or only the center speakers.On leading of this, there is spontaneous crackling and dropped speakers during gaming. I was excited about the card following reading about it, but after receiving it I realize that it is essentially worthless. I'd commit the additional cash for a Creative card.

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Good sound Quality, well built, and is supported by linux. Horrible drivers, Asio support is a joke. May well function greater on windows XP or a 32 bit process but on mine, Windows 7 64 bit Traktor and even Pinnacle studio don't operate due to poor Asio assistance Repair the drivers and it would be an wonderful card. Aside from the drivers its what i wanted. Also the "mail in rebate" from new egg never ever happened, I didn't even get the mail in slip with the card..

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I was getting concerns with the onboard sound in my motherboard, so I decided to appear into discrete alternatives. After putting in the card and just making use of it with my ordinary, run-of-the-mill headphones I'm blown away. I'm not an audiophile by any stretch, but the sound quality I've gotten from this card is a huge leap from the onboard sound I've lived with for years. My largest concern just before making use of it was that it may pick up interference from other components in the situation, which is a difficulty I had with older, cheaper discrete sound cards and was the reason I had previously stopped spending cash on them. As it is I'm really pleased with the card and I consider it was a fantastic value. I run Win7 x64 and I'm not 100% certain the driver disc that ships with the card consists of the correct drivers. They perform, but I ran into a scenario briefly exactly where the sound cut out fully and only resumed when I disabled the card in Windows and re-enabled it. I'm going to set up drivers from ASUS's website that explicitly state they are for Win7 x64 (the disc that shipped only states that they cover via Vista x64). The integrated software program and drivers don't look to give the capacity to fine-tune the microphone boost, or any input selections at all. This is in fact extremely disappointing to me.

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Surround Sound worked out of the boxOptical Out Worked out the BoxAudio Excellent on par with By way of Envy card got a rebate and free of charge shipping three days immediately after I purchased itdoesn't work under 64bit Linux. no mixing assistance for separate channels I had to Alsaconf into the card as Mepis Linux 32bit edition didn't activate the card on boot, largely due I feel to problems with Crossfired RadeonHD 3850's that also have HDA outputs. Anyways, in contrast to the Chaintech AV-710 that the Xonar replaced, I had optical audio output with no further modifications. KMix's true time possibilities such as Front Panel Assistance and Stereo Upmixing also worked flawlessly. I am a tiny disappointed that I paid almost ฮ far more for the card than other people will in May possibly as the card gained a rebate on May 6th. I purchased mine on Might 3rd. Other thoughts: I tried a couple other Mixing tools, and as far as I can inform ALSA treats all the sound channels as 1 volume alternative, even though the stereo upmixing option does effectively initiate the person channels. The lack of 64bit Linux assistance is another ding against the card, but ALSA just pushed out an update with some CMI8788 fixes, so that may well be addressed quickly enough.

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Great clean sound with a low profile card. PCI and no floppy connector. Comes with the low profile bracket and amazingly also the SPDIF connector to plug into the back. When have you noticed Creative give that. Perhaps the computer software. They could do greater with some of the interfaces on it as they are not generally the easiest to comprehend, but this is a new card for me as well so... I purchased this for my HTPC in my residing room as I have a 7.1 surround sound process and this quickly made the volume louder and sounds way additional distinct. I would suggest this card for HTPC. I have not gamed with it and probably will not till they have something equivalent to eax. I assume Asus ought to just make their own positional audio computer software and leave Creative in the dust. I can't wait for this item line to genuinely mature. Then perhaps I can scrap Inventive altogether. They are the slowest software program designers on the planet and I have still not forgiven them for beyond late Vista drivers for my X-Fi, but I digress. The Xonar is great.

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Sound is good, clean. Fast sound crackle when start off / cease songs from iTunes. Dashboard out of date + theres a finding out curve. Connected to 50 w/channel Dayton mini amp and two Infinity P162 speakers and sounds fantastic for classical to difficult rock- loud as you can stand, clear, w good bass also.

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Sounds far better than onboard audio. 192khz processing! Optical out works flawlessly. No additional audio reduce outs, or distortions. Computer seems a tiny more quickly. On board audio has triggered me nightmares in about 75% of my HTPC builds working with the optical out (TOSLINK). DD Live! Music through my yamaha 7.1 process sounds soooo sick now. ;) Also mated up with Klipsch/SVS PB2+ :) Boom. I'm not going to get adequate sleep since of the tweaking/installation I've accomplished tonight! My HTPC has come to LIFE! I've read nightmare stories about CL items; effectively for the price, I can say this factor is about the best item for the $$$.

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This is a excellent card. The sound is good. Driver support is greater than anything I've had in years. The sound handle software is somewhat unintuitive, but as soon as you realize it, it performs excellent.

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None - Card was DOA. Upon receiving this card DOA, and reading the outdoors box.This card SHARES the Line-in/Mic-in/SDIF-out INPUT Port - There is only 1 input for all 3 channels. (which is not described in the newegg specifics). If you have to use a line-in and mic at the very same time, this card is NOT for you.

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This card has superb sound for the expense. It is less costly than the higher finish Inventive Sound Cards that would be comparable to this card. It is superior than integrated sound. If you don't install the driver from the CD you can get it on the internet. The driver comes complete with all the extras from the CD (Dolby Pro Headsets, Dolby Logic and so forth). It is a really compact card in comparison to a Inventive. It features headers on the card for HDMI, Front Panel Audio and other people. The card throughout gaming has this annoying buzz sound when I switch it to 24 bit, 8 channel game mode. It does not do this for Motion pictures or Music. The Digital Out is an analog port. In order to use you need to use the analog conversion piece that is included in this box. The Digital Out is also the mic in slot. In order to use the microphone with the digital slot in you have to plug it into the front panel. The rear panel analog slots are not colored. It is difficult to see the analog slots even with a flashlight. I think Asus can make a handful of improvements to the card. It is a solid obtain although regardless of all the minor issues. I would get this once more instead of a Creative Sound Card.

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Drivers perform ideal out of the box in Vista 64.Sounds excellent when playing music and gaming with CoD4 or Warhammer.Not a bloated Creative wreck. Price maybe? .. but with the current rebate, .. it's even tastier. was looking for a decently priced card to use instead of Creative. This looked like a excellent selection and has been really good so far.

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The card sounds good, has total ALSA assistance in latest Linux kernels (I'm using 2.six.27 atm) to adjust levels for each and every channel and simple stereo upmixing (front , front + surround, front + surround + back.) Instances that induced games to lag just before are fluid now. A definite improvement over the integrated HD audio of my Asus P5E3 Premium mobo. Haven't located something but, probably that the inputs on the card are not colored coded like most, but you can see that in the pics, and they do have engraved icons/names so it's not as well hard to figure out. lspciᚭᚩ. Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]lsmod:snd_virtuoso 11268 snd_oxygen_lib 35648 1 snd_virtuososnd_mpu401_uart 8960 1 snd_oxygen_libsnd_rawmidi 25792 1 snd_mpu401_uart

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Covered in other evaluations This card WILL NOT Function beneath windows server 2003 or Windows property server. Setting up the drivers will cause the system to BSOD (cmudaxp.sys is the culprit) and the technique will continue to BSOD on startup until the card is physically removed.No version of cmudaxp.sys functions and there does not seem to be any indication that a compatible version will ever be released. The Xonar cards do function under Windows Property Server 2 (codename Vail) which is currently in beta. On the other hand ATI/AMD video cards apparently do not.

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I use this soundcard in my Carpc which is strictly utilised for music. I previously had an Creative Labs Xtreme Music in my car for audio. I should say, this sound card tends to make anything sound additional crisp. The flexibass is great for vehicle audio (even although my amp has a crossover). There is a studying curve to the computer software. At least obtaining it to split stereo music into five.1. But right after reading the manual, it was no problem. You cant discover a superior audio card for below 贄!

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Audio WAS way better when using Windows Vista x64/ Windows 7 x64 RC compared to onboard Realtek HD Audio on the 680i. The menu is extremely CLUNKY, the built in presets for audio isn't very good and to fine tune the audio calls for somebody who knows a bit of how to function the equalizer. Even worse, Asus labels these cards as "Windows 7 Prepared". They work for the RC 7100 Win 7, nonetheless in the RTM version of Windows 7, the drivers are BROKEN. If it is broken now, that suggests it will be broken when windows 7 becomes released (as RTM= the final "frozen" code provided to Producers for Windows 7 release). Channel mismatch is everywhere in the 32 and 64bit drivers, and the 64bit drivers bring about 32 bit programs to quit working (everything from Windows Media Player to Internet Explorer). If you are selecting this up for a Windows 7 Audio card, DO NOT Choose THIS UP Proper NOW. Newegg really should really TAKE OFF the Windows 7 Prepared label for this card. When this card was working for Vista SP2 64bit and Windows 7 RC, it supplied Genuinely good sound than the horrible onboard. Nevertheless the present drivers do not perform for the current version of Windows 7 (Release-to-Manufacturer) and however this brought on me to go back to poor onboard sound. Even worse, Asus' CS and mods aren't quite useful in their own assistance forums as they tend to IGNORE all the men and women that are posting about these complications. There support for Motherboards may well be great, but their help for Sound cards are HORRIBLE.

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I really can't say enough fantastic things about this card. Nevertheless, I wish I could leave the cons section blank. Anyway, Pc games and music each sound unbelievable. Astounding clarity that overpowers any of the Inventive cards I've owned. Computer software is intuitive and effortless to manipulate with an appealing UI. Simple to recommend for W7 64-bit customers. I find it hard to believe that more folks have not knowledgeable this subsequent situation. I've scoured the subsequent and no one seems to be having this issue. I have the audio from my Xbox 360 running by means of the line-in port. Fantastic functionality, but there are frequent pops and crackling noises that are extremely evident. Thinking that the card was faulty, I returned it and received a second 1 with the similar issues. I've messed with all settings and tried out the distinct sampling rates, and the noises persist. Even attempted out distinct cables. ASUS' forums are useless with post replies that only trickle in maybe once every two or 3 weeks. My inability to right this situation charges the unit two stars, but I nevertheless won't get in touch with it a deal breaker given that I play additional Computer games than I do on my console. Nonetheless, it's pretty unpleasant to knowledge this. I believe I've covered anything.

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None However wer what cable do i require to power this? Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Asus Buyer,You will need to use a 4-Pin Floppy power connector.For further assistance please get in touch with our Technical Assistance Department at http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techserv.aspx so that we may possibly get much more details about your system configuration and assist you.Ideal Regards,ASUS Assistance Group

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PCI. I use PCI for network interfaces and audio. I use PCI Express for video cards and storage controllers. This issue functions awesome in Win7 RC x64 - yay!!! I bought 3 more right after testing the first one. No explanation to acquire cards from CL - this sucker sounds attractive, and installs with out a hitch. Gorgeous. None yet. I purchased a total of 4 now, for every pc I have that was running onboard. The sound is pristine and extremely noticeable - wow. Drivers for all OS's....just pick it up.

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Very nice card, I purchased this just to upgrade for some greater audio and i have to say its sweet. Plug and play also extremely easy to install and sounds good esactly as i expected , asus is the finest , with newegg also lol. none so far , great ^_^ I actually like Asus and Newegg a lot, my create +Asus m4a79t DeluxAmd 965 , 3.foureight gigs ddr3 1600 OCZ reaper ram1t WD Hd2x Asus 5850 set in crossfire , smokin fast loland so on its good set up lol

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Clear detailed sound that surpasses that of the Audigy 2 previously in the computer.5.1 processing of music is better than that of CMSS for stereo sources.No bloatware. No DTS but then that would enhance the cost (think Xonar D2).If you have a five.1 technique (as opposed to a 7.1), it's a tiny odd that you need to plug the rears into the plug intended for side speakers. For individuals who may possibly have difficulty receiving sound to the rears in a 5.1 technique (Klipsch Promedia 5.1 used here), plug the rear speakers into the side speaker plug then in Audio Center choose the audio channel of your supply. So if you want 5.1 from a stereo supply (CD, MP3, and so forth.) you select 2 Channel for your audio channel, 5.1 Speakers for your Analog Out; then you can also experiment with the 7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter and Dolby Pro Logic IIx possibilities if you wish.

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Good HiFi sound when it operates. Drivers worked fine in Win7ኜ. Keeps looping sounds when apps or games crash and you have to reboot to get rid of the 1 sec loop. Sometimes you can disable/enable the device in the devie manager but not always. Installs all kinds of applications as auto start. Great good distinction from Mobo sound but in the end a letdown since it gets stuck looping wheh an app doesn't shutdown itself appropriately which is quite frequently.Would return it if I could because it's not worth the hassle.

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The sound from this card is amazing, but you would not recognizing by just installing the card and firing up your preferred music player. To get the very best experience you will want to tweak your sound working with the integrated computer software. I am working with a z-5300e 5.1 setup that nevertheless delivers regardless of it's age. This card has created it that much superior. My last card was an 4udigy ZS-two that created an extreme case of popping and crackling. When I built a new method, the problem continued so I chucked that card and applied the onboard audio for a handful of months. This card undoubtedly blows away the onboard audio (crummy IDT which presents very little customization) but it also blows away the old ZS-2. It is not talked about anywhere, but the card makes use of the C-Media Oxygen processor, which is the top rated of the line C-Media product. Apart from the processor, Asus also utilizes a glossed more than version of C-Media's Xear 3D as the software program interface for the card. And this is not a bad issue at all. See far more in Other Thoughts -> As talked about by other individuals right here, the documentation is very sparse. Unless you knew that the card offered front panel audio connections, you would not learn it from the manual. Speaking of front panel audio, I have yet to get mine operating. I am certain i will after some analysis, though. And I am not taking off any eggs for these cons because the card sounds remarkable and the included computer software is extremely valuable. Xear 3D is the best interface I have used for tweaking the surround sound field. And the additions produced by Asus boost it even further. The customization it delivers is top notch. If you're using five.1, make certain to allow the 7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter. It does an great job of fooling the ear into believing you are listening to 7.1. I agonized for weeks over which sound card to get. I had hesitations about obtaining (as properly as about not obtaining) one more Cr3a7ive card. I am glad I went with Asus. This card offers me satisfied ears :)

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+ Superb sound quality on regular audio jacks (better than HT Omega Striker 7.1)+ No bloatware+ CMI8788 multi-channel audio processor+ Elevated FPS in games from onboard sound+ ASUS A couple of features don't operate as advertised. I have no intention of making use of those functions, so it's not a major deal to me. After you've install the drivers, you'll hear a clicking or popping noise on welcome screen boot-up & shutdown. This is perfectly regular. The clicking or popping noise is the sound of a switching relay. It stops your speakers/subwoofer being blown up by overvoltage.