Im in a pickle... help me before insania sets in..

[enigma27]

Hi All.

I recently upgraded my PC and at the time had some money burning a whole in my pocket and invested i a second Phantom GTX570...

so now I have a lovley SLI set-up that flies but one thing I could not carry over to the new case is my Asus Xonar sound card due to the SLI taking up most all the slot space.

Yesterday I picked up my first set of gaming headphones and bascially the combination of these and my onboard sound feels a bit well ****

So my predicament is.... do it Stick with SLI and put up with the poo onboard sound or do I look for an altermative to the SLI 570 set-up and buy a single graphics card equivelant and put my dedicated sound card back in..

Answers on a postcard..

 

[Meloco]

Hi All.

I recently upgraded my PC and at the time had some money burning a whole in my pocket and invested i a second Phantom GTX570...

so now I have a lovley SLI set-up that flies but one thing I could not carry over to the new case is my Asus Xonar sound card due to the SLI taking up most all the slot space.

Yesterday I picked up my first set of gaming headphones and bascially the combination of these and my onboard sound feels a bit well ****

So my predicament is.... do it Stick with SLI and put up with the poo onboard sound or do I look for an altermative to the SLI 570 set-up and buy a single graphics card equivelant and put my dedicated sound card back in..

Answers on a postcard..

What's your motherboard? Can you give us pictures of where this slot is for your soundcard?

 

[NZXT30]

get a headphone amplifier. However, I doubt your headphones need it.

 

[Adsta]

What "gaming headphones" are they ?

 

[Hyburnate]

Buy a new motherboard or sell them both and grab a nice 590 or something.

 

[enigma27]

My motheboard is the Asrock Extreme4 Gen 3

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-054-AK

and the headphones are these

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-004-CS

The soundcard is an asus xonar PCI sound card but all the PCI slots are hidden behind the second graphics card when using SLI

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-000-AS

infact i just had a thought.... I could sell the sound card and get the PCI-E version as the PCI-e x1 slot is above the top graphics card i beleive....

 

[HeX]

Yup, either get a PCI-E soundcard, or grab a USB soundcard.

 

[enigma27]

Right i bought the PCI-E sound card version...

Happy now i can keep my lovely SLI 570's

 

[almightydutch]

Your sound will still be crap though on those headphones.

IMO you need to spend the money on some good quality headphones to get the benefit.

 

[enigma27]

to be fair anything has to be better than the onboard... even the difference between my old headphones on the asus card and the onboard i currently have is massive.

 

[Meloco]

My motheboard is the Asrock Extreme4 Gen 3

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-054-AK

and the headphones are these

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-004-CS

The soundcard is an asus xonar PCI sound card but all the PCI slots are hidden behind the second graphics card when using SLI

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-000-AS

infact i just had a thought.... I could sell the sound card and get the PCI-E version as the PCI-e x1 slot is above the top graphics card i beleive....

If you check the thread in the motherboard section I had a similar problem to you. But it turns out there is a slot free right at the top for the ASUS soundcards . So I would go with the PCI-E option you suggested.

edit: You can even buy the cheaper pic-e card: The Xonar DX (think it's around £50)

 

[enigma27]

If you check the thread in the motherboard section I had a similar problem to you. But it turns out there is a slot free right at the top for the ASUS soundcards . So I would go with the PCI-E option you suggested.

edit: You can even buy the cheaper pic-e card: The Xonar DX (think it's around £50)

to be honest when i was fiddling around last night trying to see if it would fit i thought I had the PCI-E version so had given up but was only when i checked the website for the link i noticed it was PCI i had..

Probably would have saved me some time looking through the thread...