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ASUS Decided to start making sound cards since the soundcard market was being dominated by creative and their X-FI line. With the new ASUS line of PCI-E soundcards, it makes it a good market for ASUS to start to dominate in, since there is little c...
All the Cable's you need are in the box and plus some, Great Software Combo, Improved FPS in games, Great Sound Quality watching movies and listening to music, Ton's of settings and Configs to adjust it to how you want use the card...
No front panel Audio hookups, Doesn't have Windows 7 drivers out of box...
While testing the ASUS Xonar D2X I was shocked to see the improvement over many different aspects of the sound quality from music to games. With the average FPS boost of 10-12 FPS in action packed games, which surprised me the most. With this FPS impro...
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When looking to move to our next system, the majority of us are only concerned with the basic core components of our build. We usually start by figuring out whether to build an Intel or AMD system, and then start deciding things like what processor, m...
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$172 This, my friends, is a little thing called the Xonar D2X. ASUS released the PCI-based Xonar D2 quite some time ago, and not so long ago, they released the D2X, the PCI-express version. After a long conversation with Asus, we finally get to revi...
This card has been out on the market for a long while now, and Ive read a lot of posts with good things to say about it. But, since Im skeptical by nature, I had to see if this thing lived up to its hype. Well, theres nothing quite like first-hand...
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Gone are the days when a discrete sound card was necessary for PC audio. Motherboards these days come with onboard sound chips that are capable of delivering HD audio. But if you are an audiophile, you know that these are simply incapable of justly dri...
Superb sound quality, Dolby and DTS encoding, sumptuous bundle.
No hardware processing, does not support higher than EAX 2.0, needs floppy power connector, hard to install on some motherboards.
Since this is a sound card test, we required a pair of good quality headphones and a test rig with a CPU that has many extra CPU cycles to spare. The Bose QuietComfort 3 were the headphones of our choice, while the CPU used was the Yorkfield XE QX9770...
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maximumpc.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:24
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Much hay has been made of the incredible speed advantages PCI Express offers over PCI. Beyond GPUs, however, we haven’t found much worthy of occupying those slots. Asus hopes to change that with its Xonar D2X card—the first soundcard we’ve reviewed tha...
The EAX 5 hack is commendable and the card’s LED lights add flash.
Initially spotty PCIE support that must be fixed with a BIOS update.
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Like the floppy drive before it, many have claimed the final death knell of the Sound Card is just around the corner. While the floppy drive has mostly disappeared, Sound Cards are still around. Most of them are flying the colours of Creative. However...
Across the board, the sound quality produced by the Xonar D2X is quite excellent. In movies and music, the output is clear and crisp. The added Dolby and DTS features make for an even better movie watching experience, and music is helped along nicely...
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The ASUS Xonar D2X features a host of impressive features, a generous bundle of software, and a variety of connections and cables to help you get fully connected. The Aluminum EMI shield gives it the appearance of a high end graphics card, while the PC...
Excellent audio performance in games and multimedia, Excellent bundle of software and accessories, PMP software creates good quality, unrestricted backups of DRM files, Finally something useful to stick in a PCIe x1 slot, Colored LED illuminated 1/8" jack...
Requires power from a floppy connector, adapter not included, PMP software is a bit limited and rough around the edges, Price...
A search of PriceGrabber reveals what might be the only prohibitive aspect to owning an ASUS Xonar D2X... Six resellers are listed with prices ranging from $175 to $200 (US). While such an upgrade might make the sound card one of the most expensive com...
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The Asus Xonar D2X is a full-featured 7.1-channel sound card that supports Dolby and DTS, brings 3D sound back to games under Windows Vista, and plugs into a rarely used PCI Express (PCIe) x1 slot. It has excellent quality sound playback...
Superb audio quality; supports all major audio standards; PCI Express interface; includes numerous audio cables...
Cumbersome control panel software; PMP music converter is extremely limited; converter required if you have no available floppy power connector...
Asus Xonar D2X is an excellent sound card with a strong software bundle that will appeal to gamers and audiophiles alike, but we hope to see improvements in its software...
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Creative has all but dominated the PC sound card market, in no small part thanks to its prowess with hardware-accelerated 3D audio. The EAX positional audio framework born from the SoundBlaster line became the de facto standard for 3D audio in games, g...
The X-Fi Prelude and Xonar D2X are both very good sound cards. They offer equivalent gaming performance in Windows Vista with the latest games, and our listeners had a hard time distinguishing between them in our blind listening tests. Youd do well wi...
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TBA -- The Xonar D2 is The subtle clue is in the name – the X means this is the PCI-Express x1 version of the soundcard that we reviewed in September of last year. Since then the promised PCI-Express x1 version has finally arrived, along with bet...
Even though we’ve had the Xonar D2X sitting on our shelf for over a month, you can’t buy one in the UK. The PCI-based Xonar D2 is available for and all things being (almost) equal, we expect the Xonar D2X to be available for around the same price. Ex...
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elitebastards.com Updated: 2011-09-25 16:49:53
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When we reviewed the PCI Xonar D2 a couple of months back, we certainly werent expecting quite such a fast response from ASUS to some of its criticisms. While on the surface the D2X is simply the same board with a PCI Express interface, its clear t...
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