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My Creative X-Fi Platinum died, and I can't stand Realtek onboard.
I'm looking for one at most for $100 or so. I use 5.1 Trittons and 5.1 Logitech Z-5500 via analog (green/orange/black cables).
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Could try Asus Xonar cards.
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It'll probably be down to another Creative X-Fi or an ASUS Xonar.
The deciding factor will be on how important EAX is to you.
Creative created EAX and their cards have hardware EAX acceleration.
Xonar has some EAX software emulation.
I hate Creative, but I do like the EAX sound effects in some games. So I'm still using a Creative card.
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That depends on OS. If you are on Win7 its software no matter as direct access to audio is locked out.
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Lonestar_1 posted:
That depends on OS. If you are on Win7 its software no matter as direct access to audio is locked out.
Hardware accelerated Direct Sound was disabled with Vista/7. But OpenAl still supports hardware acceleration and it seems most of my EAX games support this.
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I had to use Alchemy to get EAX working on few of my games.
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My main problem is that the Realtek sounds like complete crap. I have very little bass compared to my Creative card, even with +10db on room correction and +6db natural boost. Never payed attention to EAX, and always had it disabled.
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Lonestar_1 posted:
I had to use Alchemy to get EAX working on few of my games.
Alchemy uses OpenAL. That is usually what I have to use for my EAX games too. My understanding is that should be hardware accelerated EAX though.
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My main problem is that the Realtek sounds like complete crap. I have very little bass compared to my Creative card, even with +10db on room correction and +6db natural boost. Never payed attention to EAX, and always had it disabled.
Older motherboard? Usually find the Realtek onboard sounds pretty decent and has plenty of bass. My problem is usually some hiss with the onboard sound at higher volumes that drives me crazy.
Either way, sounds like if you don't care about EAX and want something that sounds good. An ASUS Xonar DX is what you might want.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132006
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I find the Creative Audigy cards are still very good and don't have the problems that some of the X-Fi cards have. They're very cheap in the UK too, no idea what the pricing is in the US.
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I figured onboard sound would have been further along by now considering the nvidia soundstorm was impressive but nvidia stopped making it.. Realtek is terrible compared to what Soundstorm was IMO.
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I have a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R with an i7 920, so by no means it is old :P
I don't really understand why there is such a lack of bass, but it is annoying. Also, the equalizer settings are meh with Realtek.
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Did you check your speakers & cable? Maybe its an issue on the other end.
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Lonestar_1 posted:
Did you check your speakers & cable? Maybe its an issue on the other end.
It's funny that you mention that because I checked the software and it showed that it wasn't plugged in. I unplugged it and made sure it was plugged in good, and I have some bass now. Still not as good and clean as my X-Fi, but it works for now.
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I had a set of Logitech Z-5300 for a year or two and all of a sudden the rear speakers just stopped working. I fiddled around with them for a bit (never took the woofer unit apart) and finally deduced that the input for the rears went bad. Could be your speaker system has just met it's point of obsolescence.
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Nah, I actually don't use my Z-5500s that often. I'm using my Tritton headset, which is definitely not messed up. Had it for 7 months so far.
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Nah, I actually don't use my Z-5500s that often. I'm using my Tritton headset, which is definitely not messed up. Had it for 7 months so far.
Is your headset plugged into the Z speaker volume control? My Logitechs were controlled with an external volume control and if that is causing the problem, your headset wont work either.
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I bought a X-FI Surround 5.1, which is a USB 2.0 soundcard, a while ago for reasons I won't go into here, and I ended using it for my desktop computer. I'm very satisfied, and I can easily connect a laptop to my 5.1 speaker system as bonus. They have inbetween replaced it with a "pro" model, so you will get this one even cheaper than I got it (I got it for like 60 bucks).
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Mortalis3 posted:
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Nah, I actually don't use my Z-5500s that often. I'm using my Tritton headset, which is definitely not messed up. Had it for 7 months so far.
Is your headset plugged into the Z speaker volume control? My Logitechs were controlled with an external volume control and if that is causing the problem, your headset wont work either.
No.... lol. That would just be stupid, no clue why anyone would do that. This headset is 5.1 with the 3 cables so it doesn't exactly work well plugging it into the side of the Logitech where theres just the normal green jack.
There's nothing wrong with my audio equipment - I'm just looking for a replacement for my X-Fi Platinum.
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I've been using Creative X-Fi Gamer Fatal1ty for several years now, and have had no problems with it. Great sound and EAX is nice to have in games that support it. Not sure if it is still being sold, or got superseded by another model, but it was about 130 when I got it way back when.
I'm using Logitech Z-5500 speakers as well.
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