Roughly two years ago Asus entered the discrete audio market with quite a bang. Their entry product, the Xonar D2, took everyone by surprise and created quite a storm of talk and not a little bit of controversy. We had one of those first cards in for evaluation and found them to be an amazing first product and, in terms of performance and audio quality, to be more than a match for the X-Fi.
Since then Asus has released a few different derivatives of the Xonar including a USB flavor. We have had the PCI-e variety in house for a few weeks and have been comparing it rather heavily against Creative Labs X-Fi Platinum in terms of audio quality and performance impact both for gaming and HTPC usage. Read on to find out if the Xonar can be heard above the noise.
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Jun 23 2008, 08:45 AM
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