**TODAY ONLY! OcUK Value Bluray/DVD Drive & Asus ROG Xonar Phoebus Solo 7.1 PCI-E Soundcard

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OcUK Value Blu-ray / DVDRW combi SATA - OEM @ £34.99 inc VAT

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OcUK Value Blu-ray DVDRW drive is selected to bring the best value from any brand. Offering the facility to watch high definition content and burn to other media formats the OcUK Value drive is perfect for the budget conscious who still want a quality product to hand.

Speeds can vary however the typical specs are as follows.

- BD Read 8x
- DVD±R 16x
- DVD±R DL 8x
- DVD±RW 16x
- CD-R 48x
- CD-RW 24x


Only £34.99 inc VAT.

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Asus ROG Xonar Phoebus Solo 7.1 PCI-E Soundcard @ £84.95 inc VAT

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Exclusive ROG Command technology for clean, seamless in-game communication

Gamers often face noisy conditions that drown out voices during online multiplayer gaming. This creates lack of clarity and confusion within squads, leading to lower win ratios. Exclusive ROG Command technology offers the world's first design to specifically bring noise cancellation to a gaming soundcard set, as designed by the Xonar team. Intelligent sound detection algorithms and array microphones (two on the dedicated control box) enable up to 50% ambient noise reduction, effectively turning loud locations such as LAN parties into something as quiet as a lab. The technology works equally well whether using an external microphone or the microphones embedded into the ROG Xonar Phoebus control box. Gamers benefit from being able to communicate and coordinate with team members clearly and with greater precision, adding to enjoyment and win ratios.

Finest components and design for superior sound

ROG Xonar Phoebus utilizes a stylish and effective EMI shield and ASUS exclusive Hyper Grounding technology to ensure reduced electromagnetic interference. Based on the experience of Xonar professionals, Hyper Grounding technology brings ASUS motherboard expertise to audio products with a multi-layer PCB that helps block noise from nearby components and the power supply to render more lifelike and extra clear sound. The PCM1796 digital-to-analog converter on ROG Xonar Phoebus delivers clear and crisp 118 dB SNR high fidelity audio. The new soundcard's SNR profile therefore outperforms competing gaming audio products by a factor of four, and onboard audio by an impressive 32 times. It excels in total harmonic distortion (THD) performance, with a miniscule 0.00039% of sound output experiencing distortion.

Power for headphone users

Since many gamers choose headphones to refrain from disturbing others while insisting on the best sound quality and privacy, ROG and Xonar teams integrated the top-flight TPA6120A2 headphone amplifier on ROG Xonar Phoebus, driving up to 600 ohm impedance for genuinely impactful headphone output.

The latest audio technologies

ROG Xonar Phoebus includes one-click activation of Dolby Home Theater V4, helping enhance audio through complete compatibility with new sound processing technologies. The latest standard offers greatly improved surround, with smart sound enhancement and a more user-friendly approach to high end audio. The exclusive ASUS GX 3.0 game audio engine has also been integrated, offering EAX compatibility to ensure boosted game sound, a wider range of simultaneous sound effects, and overall clearer sonic performance in every PC game.

Product crossover benefits consumers

ROG Xonar Phoebus presents the first soundcard set from ROG, the ASUS division entirely devoted to gaming as a lifestyle and branch of pioneering technology. This launch coincides with ROG's fifth anniversary, and delivers the results of cooperation between ROG gaming philosophy and innovative Xonar PC audio experts. As such, ROG Xonar Phoebus offers gamers enhanced sound custom-tailored to improving in-game experiences.

Main
- 7.1 channel
- Mic in/Line in
- Headphone Out
- Box Link
- SPDIF Out
- Front Audio Header
- Aux In
- S/PDIF Header

HW EXT – GX 3.0
Dolby Features – Dolby PCEE V4(DHTV4)
OS Support: Win8.1/Win8/Win 7/Vista/XP


Only £84.95 inc VAT.

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Cheeky refresh given ;)

Bought this soundcard on TO a few weeks ago. Sound quality is excellent in games and music and my Sennheiser PC360s have certainly come alive with this card.

The microphone input is definitely the achilles heel (google and you'll see many people have had buzzing problems) and you do have to work on getting the best compromise between input volume and interference. Based on my experience and the multitude of feedback on the interweb (particularly the ROG forum) I suspect it's poor design, either insufficient separation of components on the board or insufficient shielding on the card or on the power input.

Nevertheless at this price I definitely recommend it; you'll have to pay more than double the money to get something significantly better and a few minutes tweaking the mic input is all you'll need to get this working well.
 
Associate
Joined
9 Nov 2002
Posts
1,070
Location
Surrey, UK
Cheeky refresh given ;)

Bought this soundcard on TO a few weeks ago. Sound quality is excellent in games and music and my Sennheiser PC360s have certainly come alive with this card.

The microphone input is definitely the achilles heel (google and you'll see many people have had buzzing problems) and you do have to work on getting the best compromise between input volume and interference. Based on my experience and the multitude of feedback on the interweb (particularly the ROG forum) I suspect it's poor design, either insufficient separation of components on the board or insufficient shielding on the card or on the power input.

Nevertheless at this price I definitely recommend it; you'll have to pay more than double the money to get something significantly better and a few minutes tweaking the mic input (less is more) is all you'll need to get this working well.
 
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