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Would one of these sound much better with my X530's than the standard sound on a Maximus III Gene?
Good news for everyone:
Club 3D has a great range of sound cards available that will sound as good to your wallet as they will to your ears.
There are two different types of cards available, the Theatron and the Agrippa
Both of these cards are available at the prophecy shop:
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Jude
PCI only? No PCIe?
Would one of these sound much better with my X530's than the standard sound on a Maximus III Gene?
Given the Maximus 3 Gene has an X-Fi I would say no, especially since these have CMedia chips (not exactly known for ooomph among other things).
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Given the Maximus 3 Gene has an X-Fi I would say no, especially since these have CMedia chips (not exactly known for ooomph among other things).
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Thanks SCHUMI, appreciate the feedback.
So word on the street is the onboard Audio on the M3G and most decent Asus boards is more than enough for the casual gamer/movie watcher/MP3 listener?
Anything Creative is and the M3G has an onboard built-in version of Creative's X-Fi and though I don't know exactly how the built-in/onboard version compares to it's PCI and PCI-e 1x brothers at Creative it makes it very capable and easily better than your average onboard and many low and mid-end sound cards. It's essentially like a mobile 5850 VS a propper one.
However only the best of the best ASUS boards come with X-Fi onboards like this (there's only 3 or 4 models I know of) all others contain your usual Realtek chips which well yes they're decent (aside from the ALC1200 on my board), certainly a lot better than the rep they used to have, but just about any sound card will still be better than them. Better though in a negative price to performance ratio way, in other words the type of better you only get when you've got some money just lying around not the type when you're on a budget, then it's just not worth it.
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Makes a whole lot of sense and thanks again for taking the time to explain it to me.
It has X-fi sound on the board yes, but its still driven by a VIA chipset, you can check the website, it lists it in the driver description as a VIA audio driver. Just FYI
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