SupremeFX X-Fi (part of the Rampage 2 Extreme mobo)

[grimm]

Anyone know if this is decent or will I need to replace it with a dedicated sound card?

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[Marsman]

It is good. It's based on Creative's X-Fi, so it is better than normal onboard that comes with the majority of motherboards.

 

[Uriel]

Depends what you want to do with it.

It should be pretty good for music and films etc. It's not a full X-Fi chip though; it's X-Fi in brand name only. It doesn't have the full version of CMSS-3D or EAX5. Additionally you can't get the upgrade that allows you to encode Dolby Digital and DTS over optical that you can with a full x-fi. DVDs should still work for 5.1 over optical though, as they're pre-encoded.

Capability wise it's about on par with an X-Fi Xtreme Audio. It is better than the rubbish you normally get as onboard audio.

 

[grimm]

Mainly just going to be using it with 2.1 speakers for gaming and music (reasonably high volume occasionally).

From what I thought and what you guys have just said it sounds like it'll be fine for what I need. Thanks

 

[Alfie]

It's a soundMAX pretending to be X-Fi to make sales but for what you need it's more than enough.