1st Sound card for gamer recommendation

aries2580

aries2580

aries2580

Associate
Joined
1 Apr 2009
Posts
413
Well as the title says :D I have not the first clue about sound... Except that my CX300's headphones are the sex.
I had though of these two.

ASUS

CREATIVE

I had read of some problems with vista and creative.
and im running x64 vista basic... So that might be a problem.

Thanks all for any suggestions and help!
 
I can't tell you which is better but I've run a creative card under Vista 64bit without problems and also under Windows 7 64bit.
 
Got an Asus D2X, and at first I thought it was a huge mistake.. Crashes galore and the games that didn't crash, Dawn of War 2 had major bugs - unit speach would slow down but action would stay the same and Battlefield: Project Reality, I had nasty screeching every so often.

Updated the drivers - took a bit of time as the Global download server was full, but once I peered to it it downloaded in seconds and you can download the patch via torrents if preferred.

Loaded DoW and it was perfect no problems. Loaded Project Reality, and was able to set higher settings than before with better clarity.

I have only really noticed Dolby Headphone on Project Reality and it was phenomenal, crawling along hearing pops and hisses above your head, whilst jets come screechign overhead. It was mightily impressive and much better than when I used to use CMSS on my Audigy 2.

Insurgency for HL2, I have played it, but either my settings arn't right or it's jsut so good I don't even notice the virtualisation. But even still it's very nice.

In all honesty I'm not sure which is best in real world, I know on paper the Asus is better than the creative, cheaper too and seem to have less scare stories when it comes to Vista (not to say if you do get one you will have problems as there are people running it fine).
 
If you need it for games then go for Creative as it has some sound effects to be enabled in settings which are prepared for games.
 
Cheers all.

The asus one is what I will be going for to be honest. The horror stories about creative are putting me off... And as said about the keenness, I have had recommendations for the asus in another thread.

I know
I can't tell you which is better but I've run a creative card under Vista 64bit without problems and also under Windows 7 64bit.
Click to expand...
But I usually have such terrible luck with tech lol
 
I've just got a X-fi Titanium and it's probably the best sound card i've owned. The sound quality is brilliant. I've owned close to 10 different creative sound card over the years and never had a problem.
 
aries2580 said:
Is there any difference in the two besides the floppy power connector for the PCI-e one?
Click to expand...

none

i'd go for a D1 for this reason

creative drivers are really good now though, I'm still using my original xfi xtreme music (and my dx in another machine)
 
Kewl, thanks for the replies.

Although the creative support is actually just a high as the asus support lol

And the price pretty much the same as the creative one I can get for £96

and OCUK have the cheapest asus one...
*tries to decide*
 
go for a xonar DX / D1 or Xtreme Music

D1 is ~£60
Xtreme Music ~£60


(xtreme audio is a cack version, don't get that)
 
Sorry but for gaming... Creative X-Fi all the way... xtreme music is great...

The Xonar have fantastic audio quality - but they are best for people who primarily use it for listening to music or movies.
 
personalyl, xonar d2. the s-fi's have EAX 5 and the xonar only has EAX2, but some of the effects are things like, making your voice echo on in game voice chat if your located in an echoy place in the game etc, so there actual use is negligable.
Auzentech x-fi prelude is meant to better than the creative x-fi's, last i heard anyway (few months back now)

But that is going into the highest of the hig spec, and costs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom