Asus Xonar D2 inbound!

hellcamino · #1 03-05-2009

After almost 2 years of x-fi hell I finally decided to order up a Xonar, I've seen a lot of crying about it's emulated EAX but ffs any EAX is emulated in vista due to MS being idiots and removing hardware accalerated sound from the damn os!

I'll follow this up later with impressions and differences noted between the 2 cards.

Chuchnit · #2 03-07-2009

Sweet! I can't wait to see what you think. Their cards are expensive, but are supposed to be da bomb.

hellcamino · #3 03-09-2009

So far I think Newegg's shipping sucks...

Kal-EL · #4 03-09-2009

This thing hasn't come in yet? Seems like it was ordered last month.

hellcamino · #5 03-10-2009

Early impressions of the new card are very good, installation was a snap! I uninstalled the old card's software and rebooted and ran Ccleaner several times until it came up clean, shut the machine off and swapped cards. On boot the new card was immediately recognized and vista prompted that it wished to install software for it, I declined vista's help and installed the driver. After reboot the card worked in every way it was intended to and with a little tweaking of the EQ it sounds better than my previous x-fi by a significant margin.

The real test for me will be gaming, I'll update this post after I try it out for a while.

DrNip · #6 03-10-2009

Nice card but damn that's expensive!

hellcamino · #7 03-10-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrNip

Nice card but damn that's expensive!

My previous x-fi cost more...

Kal-EL · #8 03-10-2009

Toldya so..........:p

hellcamino · #9 03-10-2009

Game sound seems to be quite good but counterintuitive to setup after years of using x-fi cards, I am actually using no digital filters with environment set to "Room". I wouldn't have thought the environmental settings would be used at all but the room effect is actually an improvement for in game sounds, directional sound seems to be very good too despite what some have said. Some games sound completely new to me since all I have heard in certain parts were sound bugs (feedback or popping sound), so far I am giving this card a 10/10 for music and games.

Chuchnit · #10 03-10-2009

Sounds like a killer card. We know how picky you are about gaming quality.