Intel onboard Sound or Creative X-Fi

[Pinkeyes]

Hi

Currently in between PCs and pricing up some new parts.

Currently settled on the Intel DP35DP Dragon Tail Peak iP35 motherboard which has 8 Channel Audio.

In the past I haven't always been very impressed with onboard sound, and was planning to add a Creative X-Fi Xtreme PCI-E Soundcard to the shopping list.

I plan to use this PC primarily for gaming on a Vista Ultimate PC.

Would I be better off with the Creative, or will the Intel onboard 8-Channel be good enough ?

Thanks

 

[Pinkeyes]

Hey James,

Thanks very much for that info, almost immediately crossed that X-Fi off my shopping list. Never really been happy with Creative cards at all anyway.

I was a little surprised by this thread though http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17875598 regarding the Xonar, especially after hearing such good reviews of it (the two games I am currently playing are TF2 and Bioshock),you yourself mentioned you couldn't get bioshock to work at.

 

[Pinkeyes]

BioShock seems to work fine for me with EAX and TF2 works perfect for me.

Which card are you using ?