What should I do?

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I have the Creative X-FI Champion series, this one:

http://support.creative.com/Product...SET=prodfaq:PRODFAQ_16559,VARSET=CategoryID:1

Im getting the squeal of death with it and to be honest its starting to **** me off. It mainly does it when gaming but has happened on occasion whilst playing music. Basically I get a total system crash with a whine/squeal coming from the speakers. I have tried numerous installs, drivers etc and from what I have found on the net is that its something possibly related to nVidia. Well I only have my GTX280, MB is AMD/ATI chipset.

I have this paired with a set of Gigaworks S750 7.1 speakers and I may well be in the market for a new sound card.

From looking at the Asus Xonar HDAV, I need the deluxe version to connect my speakers, which is a bit expensive. Would I be able to use my speakers with the D2X version?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-001-AS&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

Edit - I guess another question would be, does anyone else have these speakers and what sound card do you have?
 
Do not look at the HDAV cards, they are very expensive and are a waste of money unless you have a receiver that has Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD. The main reason for one is if you want to pass out these HD audio formats over HDMI. GFX cards although they can pass audio, cannot pass on Dolby TrueHD due to this HDCP compliance crap.

If you watch Blu-ray's on the PC, then PowerDVD will decode Dolby TrueHD & DTS HD. No need for a Xonar HDAV.

Looks like your speakers are analogue, so yes they will work fine with the DX2.
 
One other thing also, looking at the back of my sub, the 4 minijacks out are Front, Side, Rear, Center/Sub for the sound card - all have 3 "points". The other end plugged into the Xfi card are the Front, Read/Side, Center/Sub minijacks 2 of them are 4 "points" the 3rd jack is 3 "points".

To use the Xonar D2X would i just have to get 4 minijack leads to connect it all up?
 
nobody have an answer for this?

Either way i might have to try to connect it up to onboard because this Xfi card is taking me to the edge...

Im mainly after "how to connect them" rather than yes they will work... unless i get 4 standard minijack leads.
 
If you get the D2X you will likely have to get another lead. Older models with the AD link use 3 jacks for the 8 channels, whereas the D2X uses 4 jacks for the 8 channels, which is pretty much standard with all full size sound cards now. Same as the subs inputs, so 4 jacks with 3 poles each.

Where you have 2 leads go into 1, you could always replace that lead with 2 separate leads. Guess that depends if the leads are joined together, might just be easier to buy a 4 jack to 4 jack lead.
 
Thanks for the help Marsman.

Just trying it out with my On-board for now - dare I say it. Then Ill get a Xonar when I can.
 
I must say I am tempted to get a D2. No accessible PCIE slot thanks to Gigabyte's idea of putting RAM slots in line with it. Then again, I did know that before I bought it, and did so because I have used many Gigabyte boards previously, and had no PCIE card anyway. Should have gone with my 1st instinct and got the Foxconn board.

Watched a video review of the D2/X, damn it looks good, physically. Didn't appreciate how sleek it looks until I saw moving video of it. Shame, buried in my so called HTPC case, it's looks cannot be appreciated, should I get one. Maybe I'll just have no case, so I can have it on show. :o
 
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