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The software (bloat) is much improved and has a low system footprint, Earl actually points out that there weren't any BSoDs, crashes or random reboots, there is a reason why an author would want to point that out. You missed the descriptions for gaming sound experience which is barely touched on in the bottom line. Have also been loving the mic quality this card dishes out.Īnybody that skips to the end and then commences to bitching, congrats, you entered into it with high bias.

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That said, setting the Crystalizer to ~35% and likewise messing with some of the other settings in the THX Trustudio Pro in lower than default fashion for the sliders can be effective on an application to application basis. Otherwise, messing with the EQ to be anything other than flat without a purpose also seems to be killer with this card.

For both my Z-4s and SP-2500s those settings have been incredibly effective, but any others have been horribad. With my 2.1 speaker set-ups, the key has been staying away from defaults- the proper set-up has been to set 5.1 Surround, no Center speaker, yes Subwoofer, no Rear pair speakers, full-range speakers front left and right, and bass redirection at default and subwoofer gain. The key for me with it has been finding the right control panel settings. It's been head and shoulders above the Asus Xonars before it and definitely the old X-Fi XtremeGamer I had sitting around as well.

Anyways.Īctually, the non-expansion bay version of this card has been working exceptionally well for me- on all fronts.

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I still would rather have Creative in my PC but can't because they are bloated with software and from what I remember, buggy drivers. When will they ever learn.Ĭreative needs new management in the audio dept so we can get back the sound cards we love and crave. Leave that shit to the cheap ass companies. No one gives two shits about half ass voice changing software so leave it out. I had been waiting for a long time for their new sounds cards and this junk shows up, Oh well.Īlso, what's up with a shit load of different models?Ĭreative and others need to learn from the Apple business model and deliver a few very feature packed products with tons and tons of features, very high quality and very high performance, and absolutely spot on slick GUI that is not. Oh, did I mention overpriced for what they gave you.īasically the conclusion was spot on for what I had read. Namely, still the same ol' bloated software and that the hardware had been stripped down and cheapened. I also skipped to the end of the review only because I had already heard a ton of bad things about this new product line from Creative.

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