ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 Channel PCI Express Sound Card

Nice sound for the price. It's good to see a decent Creative competitor.While Creative has hit and miss driver releases, Asus is very regular with their updates. If you look around, this is your best bang for your buck.

Crystal clear sound, Vista drivers, continuous updates, Support for 192kHz recording

Cannot get Bioshock to work, requires extra power connector

I was tired of the background noise that my on-board (realtek) sound was generating. The front panel port was horrible. I had a low budget and didn't want another creative card since I don't like all the bloatware that comes with creative drivers, let...

Absolute crystal clear sound, low profile card (with low-profile bracket) for HTPC's, good front panel audio, vista support, working non-bloated drivers, Cirrus Logic Oxygen HD chip

Requirement for more power, comes with molex-floppy adapter. The Front Panel audio is not auto-detected on plug-in. You have to manually go to the settings and choose FP speakers. Somewhat annoying

With a reasonably recent alsa, it is completely painless with linux -- microphone, aux input, even 7.1 sound works right out of the box. Low profile so it uses a PCI express slot between my SLI nvidia cards. Great performance for the price.

Works with linux. 7.1 sound. Low profile

Specs not as good as the more expensive Xonar D2X

I was replacing my Sondigo Inferno sound card with this sound card. I was only doing that because I wanted the front audio port connection that this card has. This card uses the same Cmedia 8788 Oxygen chip that my Sondigo sound card used.When I first...

Excellent sound quality with plenty of volume. It also supports up to EAX5.0 emulation for some games. Front audio connection

Not all games apparently work yet with the emulation

Was upgrading my kids PC. They listen to a lot of music and play a lot of games on their machine, decided to put in a sound card for better quality and (in theory) a little less CPU utilization. This was the perfect choice in terms of price and...

Low profile, sound quality an improvement over motherboard option, affordable alternative to Creative cards

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