juliendogg
11-08-05, 10:16 AM
Some of you probably saw my thread looking for alternatives to SoundStorm audio for 5.1ch digital output. I puchased this card from newegg and installed it. Sound quality is quite nice for MP3 audio, and gaming, DVD is simply awesome.
Some things to point out,
#1: For such a high priced card, the audio control panel simply sucks. Options are lacking, and the interface leaves much to be desired. My biggest problem here is that there is no control for LFE crossover level that i can see. To me, this was fairly dissapointing.
#2: No front panel audio connector. Are you kidding me ? $100 audio card and no front panel connector. Again, dissapointing.
#3: When using the optical output in DDL 5.1 the analog jacks are completely disabled. I find this to be irritating, as with my soundstorm I was able to have the optical out allways on, and have the analog jack still active for headphones when I wanted to game while someone is watching the tube or something in my living room. I have to go into the CPL and set the optical jack to 2ch in order to use headphones.
All in all though, this is an excellent card that seems to be very high quality. For the price though, I would have thought that some of the above issues wouldn't have been issues at all. I would however recommend this card to anyone looking for a DDL card at a decent price.
There's my 2cents,
Jason.
Some things to point out,
#1: For such a high priced card, the audio control panel simply sucks. Options are lacking, and the interface leaves much to be desired. My biggest problem here is that there is no control for LFE crossover level that i can see. To me, this was fairly dissapointing.
#2: No front panel audio connector. Are you kidding me ? $100 audio card and no front panel connector. Again, dissapointing.
#3: When using the optical output in DDL 5.1 the analog jacks are completely disabled. I find this to be irritating, as with my soundstorm I was able to have the optical out allways on, and have the analog jack still active for headphones when I wanted to game while someone is watching the tube or something in my living room. I have to go into the CPL and set the optical jack to 2ch in order to use headphones.
All in all though, this is an excellent card that seems to be very high quality. For the price though, I would have thought that some of the above issues wouldn't have been issues at all. I would however recommend this card to anyone looking for a DDL card at a decent price.
There's my 2cents,
Jason.