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AnarchoS
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 Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 09:52 Post subject: New soundcard? |
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I have Audigy 2 zs
Its hard to find support for this card but its still works after 7 years of use.
I don t like the inbuilt sound cards because i noticed that games run better with creative cards, the difference was 10 fps.
Does anyone have a new sound blaster reacon 3d pcie and is there any real improvement over Audigy 2 zs?
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Frant
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 12:39 Post subject: |
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There's Auzentech (they use Creative chips if I remember correctly), Asus etc. if you're looking for high quality discrete soundcards. I know nothing about their new post-XFi generation though.
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 12:48 Post subject: |
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depends on your budget, if you can spend a good deal on it i suggest going for the asus xonar ST
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 13:07 Post subject: |
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The advantage of audigy 2 and older is that they work with the excellent kx drivers, much better then the pos drivers creative make.
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AnarchoS
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 13:38 Post subject: |
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Would Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD be better than asus xonar ST?
| Kamikaze666 wrote: | | The advantage of audigy 2 and older is that they work with the excellent kx drivers, much better then the pos drivers creative make. |
I read that somewhere too so would it be smart to change this card for a newer one if it still works ok?
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 14:48 Post subject: |
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Eh what you mean?
The zs is still a good card, and you can do a lot of stuff with the kx drivers, they are meant for audiophiles so theyre good 
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 15:12 Post subject: |
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I'd just stick with the Audigy 2. Doesn't seem much replacing something that isn't broken. One of the better cards creative has ever made, and with the KX driver support it will be hard to beat.
As for a 10 FPS difference I find that hard to beleive. You'd have to have a fairly old motherboard and CPU to see that level of difference, and you'd have to be running 2000/XP.
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Nov 2011 15:23 Post subject: |
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I used to had Audigy 2 zs back in the day
Switched to X-fi Forte, awesome card and Auzentech makes really good card
there ia also asus xonar d1
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Nov 2011 00:13 Post subject: |
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Screw sound cards all together. If you're THAT into sound that you want to drop money into sound. Stray away from the mediocre crap.
Pick up a denon or yamaha receiver and go that route. HDMI 1.4 preferably since it's pure uncompressed sound.
Otherwise, if you must get a sound card, look into HT Omega, they use the C-Media chips which are superior to all that creative garbage
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=HT+Omega&x=0&y=0
I put the Striker in my brothers computer because he's into music..big time and oh me oh my did it sound good.
Almost all receivers can be used with computers as long as they have analog input. From there pick up some Polk Audio R150's and you'll have some of the best sound you never thought you'd have.
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AnarchoS
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Nov 2011 10:50 Post subject: |
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Ill stick with audigy 2 for now.
Thnx.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Nov 2011 15:14 Post subject: |
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Funny, testing SOUNDcards by framerates ingame 
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sausje
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Nov 2011 09:14 Post subject: |
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| AnarchoS wrote: | | Now with new systems graphic cards are the bottlenecks. |
Nop, depends totally on the situation. EVERYTHING can be a bottleneck, depends how your setup is. But it still can be alot of diffrent things, not just GPU.
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Nov 2011 09:47 Post subject: |
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