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$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best

Posted by kdawson on from the listen-up dept.

EconolineCrush writes "Sound card giant Creative caught plenty of flak for its recent driver debacle, and has long been criticized for bullying competitors and stifling innovation. But few have been willing to compete with Creative head-on, allowing the company to milk its X-Fi audio processor for more than two and a half years. Now the SoundBlaster has a new challenger in the form of Asus' $90 Xonar DX, which delivers much better sound quality than the X-Fi, PCI Express connectivity, and support for real-time Dolby Digital Live encoding. The Xonar can even emulate the latest EAX positional audio effects, providing the most complete competition to the X-Fi available on the market."

2 of 387 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That'll teach Creative to be stingy about drive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I paranoid to think that these hardware companies who are stingy with their drivers are mostly on Microsoft's tit Yes, esp. considering Microsoft has no tits and if it did, they'd be nasty man-boob type tits that nobody wants to see or even acknowledge their existence.
  2. Re:Does it work with Linux? by Godji · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on people, this is not funny :)

    Somebody mod me down NOW!!!