ASUS Xonar DX/XD

ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card Review Featuring Manufacturers Part#: XONAR DX Price: Click here to compare prices Availability: In Stores Now

Price point ; Overall impressive sound ; GX 2.0

Generic Opamps ; Small bundle ; No DTS features ; Some minor sound issues

Modding Options This card has digital converters and opamps on both sides of the card to keep the size of the Xonar to a minimum for use in smaller

Sound buffs now have more choices with ASUSTek's latest entry into the 7.1 soundcard market: The ASUS Xonar DX.

Superb clarity and fidelity ; Great performance for music and movies ; Low-profile design provides flexibility ; Affordable

Hit-or-miss gaming performance ; Requires external power supply

From my testing, it's clear to see that ASUS' Xonar DX pushes the performance envelope for a value-oriented card, offering most but not all of the performance of the audiophile-quality Xonar D2 and D2X cards - call it Xonar Lite, if you will. ASUS has...

Award: RECOMMENDED

Just a few years ago, if someone said that integrated audio would deliver great performance with many of the features of a full-blown add-in card, it might have raised an eyebrow or two. Today, however, thanks to vastly improved integrated...

Very Good Audio Reproduction ; Excellent surround-sound and spatial positioning performance ; Good Gaming Performance ; EAX 5.0 Support

Limited CPU off-load benefits ; Skimpy Documentation ; Lite Retail Bundle

With the Xonar DX PCI Express 7.1 Audio card, ASUS aimed to deliver a more affordable upgrade to integrated audio than previous offerings, while providing an experience that rivals more expensive audio card options. We'd say ASUS has definitely...

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Asus put the Xonar on a diet for this latest DX version, dropping plenty of weight to squeeze it onto a low-profile card that retails for half the price of the more expensive D2X model. Some of the original Xonar's flashier features didn't survive,...

Asus Xonar DX Incridble Sound

I bought this sound card because i was not satisfied with my onboard sound!!!! In the moment i start listen my music with this Asus Xonar DX i just said Woaawoa, just incridble sound , the bass was amazing, cristal clear, i just didnt wanna stop...

Good sound, poor installation

I bought this sound card because I found the onboard sound on my Gigabyte EX58-UD3R motherboard, whilst being fairly clear, was not loud enough in some of the games I was playing and lacked punch. I searched the internet and this seems to be a problem...

ASUS Xonar DX/XD - Sound card

Affordable card to provide good quality sound - much clearer sound comparing to integrated ALC888 codec. Also nice features of voice changing and equalizer in card's control panel. Works in Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit system without problems. Recommended...

Highly recomended for vista

Creative have had many problems with their vista drivers and some still manage to have problems. I upgraded from an onbaord Realtek ACL888 to this which is the same as the D1 just slot differences. The major difference was noticed during games crisp...

My Home Theater setup is: Onkyo 705 receiver, Sony BDP-370S blu-ray, Oppo universal CD player, HSU subwoofer, JMlab (now Focal) Chorus 715 front/center, with Wharfdale surrounds. Computer is a standard HP Asus operated with massive hard drives....

MP3's play at CD quality or better. FLAC files are superior to any disc format I have used. Set up very straight forward. No problems with physical installation or feature programing. Power cable not a problem. Didn't even need the included adapter

On initial setup received a hum (feedback?) from front speaker when no devices were active or on--ie. when just using computer. Today, no hum or other feedback under any conditions

My Home Theater setup is: Onkyo 705 receiver, Sony BDP-370S blu-ray, Oppo universal CD player, HSU subwoofer, JMlab (now Focal) Chorus 715 front/center, with Wharfdale surrounds. Computer is a standard HP Asus operated with massive hard drives....

MP3's play at CD quality or better. FLAC files are superior to any disc format I have used. Set up very straight forward. No problems with physical installation or feature programing. Power cable not a problem. Didn't even need the included adapter

On initial setup received a hum (feedback?) from front speaker when no devices were active or on--ie. when just using computer. Today, no hum or other feedback under any conditions

With a reasonably recent alsa, it is completely painless with linux -- microphone, aux input, even 7.1 sound works right out of the box. Low profile so it uses a PCI express slot between my SLI nvidia cards. Great performance for the price.

Works with linux. 7.1 sound. Low profile

Specs not as good as the more expensive Xonar D2X

Was upgrading my kids PC. They listen to a lot of music and play a lot of games on their machine, decided to put in a sound card for better quality and (in theory) a little less CPU utilization. This was the perfect choice in terms of price and...

Low profile, sound quality an improvement over motherboard option, affordable alternative to Creative cards

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I was replacing my Sondigo Inferno sound card with this sound card. I was only doing that because I wanted the front audio port connection that this card has. This card uses the same Cmedia 8788 Oxygen chip that my Sondigo sound card used.When I first...

Excellent sound quality with plenty of volume. It also supports up to EAX5.0 emulation for some games. Front audio connection

Not all games apparently work yet with the emulation

I was tired of the background noise that my on-board (realtek) sound was generating. The front panel port was horrible. I had a low budget and didn't want another creative card since I don't like all the bloatware that comes with creative drivers, let...

Absolute crystal clear sound, low profile card (with low-profile bracket) for HTPC's, good front panel audio, vista support, working non-bloated drivers, Cirrus Logic Oxygen HD chip

Requirement for more power, comes with molex-floppy adapter. The Front Panel audio is not auto-detected on plug-in. You have to manually go to the settings and choose FP speakers. Somewhat annoying