Computex 2015: Powercolor Devil HDX PCI Express Sound Card

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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.
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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)
#5086946
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Could always use another player in the soundcard market. Both Asus and Creative have horrible driver support for their products.
#5086949
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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.
#5086951
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Need to see their software package.
#5087004
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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
#5087098
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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.
#5087111
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How come the Creative SoundBlaster ZxR is the only one so far without External Power needed?
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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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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.
#5087130
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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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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
#5087371
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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.
This. I have been happily bitstreaming for past ~7 years. All I need is that a motherboard has digital or optical out. Never looked back.
#5087585
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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.
No u don't need any external stuff, what u need is a proper shielding inside of a PC, so the sound card needs its own shielding and if u put a big graphic card close to your sound card, make sure that graphic card has its own metallic backplate if it is below the sound card. and no, it is not overpriced crap, not only sound cards have more features like dolby, xear 3d, equalizer, surround enhancement features but also produce a more powerful output at still very high quality to drive your high powered headphones About Powercolor Devil HDX, spec wise looks promising but everything depends on the end price and features
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Could always use another player in the soundcard market. Both Asus and Creative have horrible driver support for their products.
For Creative that's a major understatement. Their drivers to this day for their flagship devices like the ZxR have some major glitches which their drivers from at least 2005 had. Literally 10+ years of the same problems. When I say major, I'm talking on the level of the hardware outright not working or being detected.
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For Creative that's a major understatement. Their drivers to this day for their flagship devices like the ZxR have some major glitches which their drivers from at least 2005 had. Literally 10+ years of the same problems. When I say major, I'm talking on the level of the hardware outright not working or being detected.
Not much better with asus, they've released a non whql driver for the phoebus recently (and by recently i mean nearly 4 months ago), with the same drm bug it had since the beginning.
#5089297
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I just use my Phoebus for toslink optical connection no for my Bifrost Uber dac, won`t go back to a sound card again.

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