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Computex 2015: Powercolor Devil HDX PCI Express Sound Card
The Devil HDX PCI Express sound card will feature crystal clear Hi-Fi audio. Using supreme quality components, excellent layout design to reach 124dB SNR, and offering crystal clear sound quality for audiophiles, gamers and enthusiasts alike will be blown away by its quality.
The Devil HDX has built-in headphone amplifiers with a 6.3mm phone jack with amplifier drives up to 600 impedance on headphones that provide thundering high fidelity sound strike to your headset. The swappable op-amp sockets allow users to create exclusive timbre, allowing different sound quality and overall user tunable custom experience for all. And with the multi-channel daughter board, users can enjoy the 7.1 channel surround sound.
The card is powered by a C-Media CMI8888 native-PCIe processor connected to a Wolfson WM8741 primary DAC with 124 dBA SNR. Amplifying this, is a TI LM4562 OPAMP. Nichicon Muse electrolytic with metalized polypropylene caps against signal loss.
Anyway, have a peek, looks like dedicated audio cards are making a return as ASUS has some new kit soon as well.
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#5086945 Posted on: 06/02/2015 02:40 AM
What kind of audio set ups take advantage of the 7.1 daughter card? I thought that people connect a HDMI cable to their receiver. I've never set up surround sound, so I can't picture it.
Older 5.1 and 7.1 speaker systems, my 5.1 uses the 3 coloured 3.5mm jacks (never use anything other than 2.1)
What kind of audio set ups take advantage of the 7.1 daughter card? I thought that people connect a HDMI cable to their receiver. I've never set up surround sound, so I can't picture it.
Older 5.1 and 7.1 speaker systems, my 5.1 uses the 3 coloured 3.5mm jacks (never use anything other than 2.1)
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#5086946 Posted on: 06/02/2015 02:42 AM
Could always use another player in the soundcard market. Both Asus and Creative have horrible driver support for their products.
Could always use another player in the soundcard market. Both Asus and Creative have horrible driver support for their products.
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#5086949 Posted on: 06/02/2015 02:46 AM
That is a nice dac there in the Wolfson, but when I think of powercolor devil video cards makes me a bit leery. Looks like a solid card tbh.
That is a nice dac there in the Wolfson, but when I think of powercolor devil video cards makes me a bit leery. Looks like a solid card tbh.
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#5086951 Posted on: 06/02/2015 02:51 AM
Need to see their software package.
Need to see their software package.
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#5086966 Posted on: 06/02/2015 03:36 AM
Looks like Powercolor just make a sticker over the SC808 and sell it as a own card. The Original cost 85€
http://www.aimpro21.com/prod_sc808.asp
Looks like Powercolor just make a sticker over the SC808 and sell it as a own card. The Original cost 85€
http://www.aimpro21.com/prod_sc808.asp
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#5087004 Posted on: 06/02/2015 05:55 AM
One has to use add-in daughter card to get microphone input. other than that I like 6.3m jacks.
And it really looks like re-brand, but they may have other level of quality components used. better/worse ~ no clue
One has to use add-in daughter card to get microphone input. other than that I like 6.3m jacks.
And it really looks like re-brand, but they may have other level of quality components used. better/worse ~ no clue
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#5087012 Posted on: 06/02/2015 06:20 AM
Looks like Powercolor just make a sticker over the SC808 and sell it as a own card. The Original cost 85€
http://www.aimpro21.com/prod_sc808.asp
Nice find!
Looks like Powercolor just make a sticker over the SC808 and sell it as a own card. The Original cost 85€
http://www.aimpro21.com/prod_sc808.asp
Nice find!
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#5087098 Posted on: 06/02/2015 09:30 AM
Apart from Vista x64 drivers I haven't had a lot of trouble with Creative. Asus however crashed the entire computer with their Asus Xonar XD drivers, certainly not suitable for gaming.
Could always use another player in the soundcard market. Both Asus and Creative have horrible driver support for their products.
Apart from Vista x64 drivers I haven't had a lot of trouble with Creative. Asus however crashed the entire computer with their Asus Xonar XD drivers, certainly not suitable for gaming.
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#5087107 Posted on: 06/02/2015 09:53 AM
Looks like Powercolor just make a sticker over the SC808 and sell it as a own card. The Original cost 85€
http://www.aimpro21.com/prod_sc808.asp
Indeed. Even it's software looks same, only in red not blue:
SC808:
http://bbsimg03.kakaku.k-img.com/images/bbs/002/031/2031135_m.jpg
PowerColor DEVIL HDX Sound Card:
http://www.powercolor.com/image/assets/soundcard_SCM888_DHDX/pic_07.jpg
Looks like Powercolor just make a sticker over the SC808 and sell it as a own card. The Original cost 85€
http://www.aimpro21.com/prod_sc808.asp
Indeed. Even it's software looks same, only in red not blue:
SC808:
http://bbsimg03.kakaku.k-img.com/images/bbs/002/031/2031135_m.jpg
PowerColor DEVIL HDX Sound Card:
http://www.powercolor.com/image/assets/soundcard_SCM888_DHDX/pic_07.jpg
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#5087111 Posted on: 06/02/2015 09:59 AM
How come the Creative SoundBlaster ZxR is the only one so far without External Power needed?
How come the Creative SoundBlaster ZxR is the only one so far without External Power needed?
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#5087114 Posted on: 06/02/2015 10:12 AM
Don't take my word as complete truth, but I think it's because PCIE can create noise, but I think that's probably bull and it's just because they can't be arsed to make it PCIE native. My Xonar D2x uses a floppy connector, but I think it's because it wasn't originally for PCIE. Still a great sound card even though it's getting old, but I would rather one without a power cable.
How come the Creative SoundBlaster ZxR is the only one so far without External Power needed?
Don't take my word as complete truth, but I think it's because PCIE can create noise, but I think that's probably bull and it's just because they can't be arsed to make it PCIE native. My Xonar D2x uses a floppy connector, but I think it's because it wasn't originally for PCIE. Still a great sound card even though it's getting old, but I would rather one without a power cable.
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#5087121 Posted on: 06/02/2015 10:30 AM
Placing any audio processing piece of hardware inside a PC case is the worst possible scenario.
If you truly care about audio you should just get an external DAC and possibly an AMP unless you use some crappy gaming headphones/speakers.
Any creative/asus/etc audio hw is an overpriced piece of crap.
Don't take my word as complete truth, but I think it's because PCIE can create noise, but I think that's probably bull and it's just because they can't be arsed to make it PCIE native. My Xonar D2x uses a floppy connector, but I think it's because it wasn't originally for PCIE. Still a great sound card even though it's getting old, but I would rather one without a power cable.
Placing any audio processing piece of hardware inside a PC case is the worst possible scenario.
If you truly care about audio you should just get an external DAC and possibly an AMP unless you use some crappy gaming headphones/speakers.
Any creative/asus/etc audio hw is an overpriced piece of crap.
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#5087130 Posted on: 06/02/2015 10:44 AM
Placing any audio processing piece of hardware inside a PC case is the worst possible scenario.
If you truly care about audio you should just get an external DAC and possibly an AMP unless you use some crappy gaming headphones/speakers.
Any creative/asus/etc audio hw is an overpriced piece of crap.
Making it external doesn't mean anything that things are automatically better. Internal doesn't automatically mean it will be noisy **** that picks all interferences.
Placing any audio processing piece of hardware inside a PC case is the worst possible scenario.
If you truly care about audio you should just get an external DAC and possibly an AMP unless you use some crappy gaming headphones/speakers.
Any creative/asus/etc audio hw is an overpriced piece of crap.
Making it external doesn't mean anything that things are automatically better. Internal doesn't automatically mean it will be noisy **** that picks all interferences.
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#5087136 Posted on: 06/02/2015 10:54 AM
I'v tried that GX mode on my xonar xense with certain games and it crashed a lot in the past when i tried it. So I stay away from that usage scenario. Am fine by using plain monitor stereo sound anyway, which was the purpose behind my purchase of the xonar xense. Either with good headphones or connected to my amp. Also the driver install itself is never able to fully complete it seems, but everything appear to run smoothly after I do a cold reset.
My audigy zs was a beutifiul card. I had no issues with but I never had vista lol. Ran fine on WinXP
Apart from Vista x64 drivers I haven't had a lot of trouble with Creative. Asus however crashed the entire computer with their Asus Xonar XD drivers, certainly not suitable for gaming.
I'v tried that GX mode on my xonar xense with certain games and it crashed a lot in the past when i tried it. So I stay away from that usage scenario. Am fine by using plain monitor stereo sound anyway, which was the purpose behind my purchase of the xonar xense. Either with good headphones or connected to my amp. Also the driver install itself is never able to fully complete it seems, but everything appear to run smoothly after I do a cold reset.
My audigy zs was a beutifiul card. I had no issues with but I never had vista lol. Ran fine on WinXP
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Looks cool, but I have a question:
What kind of audio set ups take advantage of the 7.1 daughter card? I thought that people connect a HDMI cable to their receiver. I've never set up surround sound, so I can't picture it.