MX18908
Xonar D2/PM 7.1 PCI Sound Card w/ Dolby® / DTS®
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MX18908
Only$179.99
- SKU: MX18908
- ILC: 610839030330
- Part #: XONAR D2/PM
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Not a bad card, better options for ASIO use
1/17/2012 11:45:49 AMBuddy from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- Latest Chipset from CMI Nice looking, black color, shield LEDs are a nice touch
- Weaknesses:
- Latest Chipset from CMI (Not a c-media driver fan) ASIO driver is buggy in XP, strange channel mapping Need to change sample rate manually More bling than bang for your buck.
- Summary:
- A decent enough card, with good sound quality but not enough to justify getting away from an X-fi type card, which can be very stable in the right system with it's relatively good ASIO drivers. Would have given the card a 4/5 if not for the buggy ASIO driver and need for manual resampling. Not used in gamer application, so no comments in that area.
Great Card - Poor Support
10/3/2009 3:03:59 PMHaz from Edmonton, AB writes:
- Strengths:
- Card is asthetically nice if you have a windowed case - but this is definitely not a REAL strong point. Control panel applet is great and has alot of features, highly configurable speaker setup. Awesome sound options for gaming - can really add to the experience over any other card out there, however - see below before getting excited.
- Weaknesses:
- Card does only supports up to EAX v2, anything above this is emulated but works well, future game titles may cause problems however - be aware!
ASUS appears to no longer support this card, which is a shame. There are some annoying issues with it and gaming under Vista and Windows 7. Some games will not even WORK with this card (check asus forums, lots!) and ASUS is doing nothing about it ! It actually appears that ASUS doesn't give a hoot about supporting ANY of the Xonar model cards. - Summary:
- Nice looking
Works good in XP (COD:WAW & Red Faction Guerrilla dont though)
Works terrible in Vista
Works terrible in Windows 7
Support is terrible.
Buy something else, not this.
this is for the DX and DX2
2/27/2009 5:12:01 PMDean from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- Amazing sound for movie and mp3 playback. It is as good as the reviews state. Crystal clear... no hums or buzzes.
- Weaknesses:
- No game runs for me... I get 3 minutes with EAX or GX as they call it and my games either crash or the sound within 5 minutes bites the bullet to the point of hard booting the computer.
I was really disappointed with gaming results - Summary:
- From what I have read everywhere on the net... including the ASUS forums... people are nothing but disappointed with this card.... I traded this in toward the Prelude... It wins hands down. Games work with the Prelude... audio in movies and mp3s are great.
Awesome sound card
1/26/2009 2:06:03 PMNigel from Edmonton writes:
- Strengths:
- - Fantastic sound
- Powerful software
- LED's in inputs, easy connections
- Heat shield, looks awesome in my Skeleton
- Multi-channel support - Weaknesses:
- - Price
- Does not connect to my front panel audio (that I can figure out) - Summary:
- I use it for gaming, I'm sure this is aimed at audiophiles and profesionals. Still sounds awesome, looks great, and works perfectly on my rig.
Poor Gaming Choice
1/15/2009 9:59:10 AMJoelC from Calgary, AB writes:
- Strengths:
- - Superior sound quality over Creative products.
- High quality hardware.
- Looks good. - Weaknesses:
- - Very poor drivers.
- Often on a clean boot my microphone would be turned off. Only a reboot could fix it.
- Certain games killed my sound in Ventrilo. Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 co-op with no sound? No thanks.
- Massive sound dropping in games, especially bad the longer you play.
- Entire cut scenes without any sound sometimes.
- Fairly poor surround sound support.
- Greatly increased random crashing in almost every game. - Summary:
- I am running Vista x64, so maybe the issue the drivers are having. But I’ve been running it for over 2 years and all my other custom and standard hardware is fine.
This card may be a fine choice for only watching movies or playing music, but I’m very disappointed with it for gaming. Under any kind of heavy load this card goes into, what I would call, moderate failure mode…leading to massive failure mode. The entire point of a sound card for me is to be able to handle way more load than I could with onboard sound, this card is worse than any onboard I have seen under gaming pressure.
The worst thing I can say about this card is that I swapped it out in favor of my old Creative X-Fi Fatality. This is a high insult, since I have long loathed the sound quality and drivers of Creative. I instantly noticed a sound quality drop when I went back to the Creative card, but at least it is solid under load (rock steady, compared with the Asus).
The search for a Creative replacement continues…
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