Need a Sound Card

[Wizardskills]

I just got a pair of Roccat Kave's, but using them on my onboard realtek soundcard it starting to annoy me. I keep getting a slight hiss through them and i think it is bacasue they are picking up interferance made from the onboard sound.

I have been looking round and i think im right in saying that Asus Dxxx's are the ones to get if you have a headset. However the roccat kaves have 4 3.5mm jacks to do the 5.1 so im not sure if i should be getting an Asus or a creative sound card.

I have arround £90 to spend and im currently looking at

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-001-AS&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-058-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-062-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

Which one of these would be best or is there another option that i havent seen?

 

[markop2003]

The titanium and D2X are pretty similar, the THD is the same and the SNR is pretty similar.

The titanium will give you slightly better performance due to XRAM i think also you've got full proper EAX support (the asus emulator ain't perfect) and a nice front panel (though this won't work with a surround sound headset).

The D2X has a slightly better SNR but you're unlikely to notice it with a surround sound headset, it also has a big bunch of dolby features. This includes the greatness of dolby headphone but you won't be able to make use of it with a surround headset infact DTS and prologic are the only ones you could make use of.

The third one seems to be very similar to the fatality the only differance is the lack of XRAM, bundled audio creation software and front pane (can't use with kave)l which ain't really worth having IMO.

All in all i'ld say the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium (3rd one) is the best to go with.