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[Friedric]

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[Flanker35M]

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Congrats on the rig! I hope it gives you a lot of fun while gaming

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Nice rigs you got there! Katana, how about that sound card..I have been watching on one like that, but not sure if I get improvement over onboard in gaming. Any impressions you got?

Some dont worry about using on board sound these days, and on modern motherboards its pretty good I must admit, but because of the nature of onboard it will use some CPU cycles, on a fast modern processor you will only lose 1 or 2 FPS at most if that though ... but there are other reasons to use a good quality dedicated sound card, the Asus Xonar STX for example has its own amplifier so that using headphones it has enough juice to supply the best of headphones or headsets, it also does its own sound processing and leaves the CPU cores for other work, the sound quality is unbelievably good, you need to hear it on good headphones or speakers to fully appreciate it, this is actually my second Asus Xonar card, have PCI-e D2X in my second PC, but this STX sounds much better, I wont be going back to Creative Labs cards any more

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Friedric

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Looks very very nice Friedric, I'm sure you are enjoying as much as I am on a similar rig.

[Stublerone]

@Katana: Good statements cocerning soundcards and I have the same, but one point to add:

They do some kind of own sound processing but since you have a lack of sound hardware support in win7 (or was it the api's in newer directx versions?) u have no full support anymore. This step backwards in sound on a pc causes, that our cards cannot fully do their desired jobs. That is why creative got massive problems with microsoft (they implement the sound generating methods from xbox), you are far away from the eax future plans, which sounded great.

I am not that aware of that topic, but it makes me angry to get no full hardware support for my soundcards anymore. Clearly poor in my opinion, that the idea of eax died with these changes of microsoft and that the sound fell back into "medieval" drastically said.

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Stublerone

@Katana: Good statements cocerning soundcards and I have the same, but one point to add:

They do some kind of own sound processing but since you have a lack of sound hardware support in win7 (or was it the api's in newer directx versions?) u have no full support anymore. This step backwards in sound on a pc causes, that our cards cannot fully do their desired jobs. That is why creative got massive problems with microsoft (they implement the sound generating methods from xbox), you are far away from the eax future plans, which sounded great.

I am not that aware of that topic, but it makes me angry to get no full hardware support for my soundcards anymore. Clearly poor in my opinion, that the idea of eax died with these changes of microsoft and that the sound fell back into "medieval" drastically said.

Good points, I miss EAX in Win 7.