Xonar DX or x-fi extreme? (PCI-E)

joe pineapples

joe pineapples

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Hi

I need the pci slot my old audigy 2 is taking up, so basically looking at either a Xonar DX or x-fi extreme (both PCI-E versions). Opinion seems clearly in favour of the Xonar, but i'm just wondering if that includes cpu usage as well. The card will be used mostly for games, and a bit of music listening, and all with a 2 speaker setup.

thanks
joe
 
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The X-FI Xtreme Audio is utter rubbish, it's not a true X-Fi and dates back from the Audigy SE. The Xonar on the other hand is excellent and has comparable quality to the D2X. :)

The X-Fi also doesn't have proper hardware acceleration anyway, so I'd say the ASUS is better in that field since it does EAX5 in software.
 
Well I have had the Xonar for about a month now and for gaming the sound is incredible I can hear things which sound so realistic I duck or look over my shoulder!

CPU useage is minimal and only a few % worse than a Creative card so unlikely to be a drain and you could always overclock your Ram to compensate by a few %.

Bluray/HD-DVD sounds amazing as well either on SPDIF or analogue.
 
Just installed my Xonar DX after using an Audigy 2 ZS for the last 2 years, and what a difference. The sound quality is superb for games and music, and there is one simple to use control panel, that does not bog you down with too many settings.
 
dobbs2010 said:
Just installed my Xonar DX after using an Audigy 2 ZS for the last 2 years, and what a difference. The sound quality is superb for games and music, and there is one simple to use control panel, that does not bog you down with too many settings.
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Nice to hear you finally got your Xonar DX. Been running mine most of the afternoon on music.

What setting you got yours set to? Effects Set to Plain.

Cheers
 
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