There is a significant advantage to having good surround sound accuracy and its here where I still think sound cards shine, not because of the hardware but because of the software they come with. Dolby Headphone is also better than the virtual surround that comes with most games when you choose headphones in the options. If you are going to use virtual surround for your headphones (you should) then you will find Dolby Headphone from 7.1 source is vastly superior to Realtek's equivalent in its drivers. Certainly if you have high enough end headphones and speakers there is potentially a difference, although as Tomshardware recently reviewed its not a very big difference and most people couldn't tell on music. SNR and various other measures of accuracy show that the Realtek chipsets are much improved but still lagging from even basic sound cards, and if sound quality and reproduction is the goal then a sound card is better. The concensus there seems to be that Xonar DX is better.
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Obviously you also need half-decent speakers too.īTW, if you are using Asus Xonar DX, I think the official drivers are junk - it's much better to use the unified drivers: I also showed off the sounds to my brother and he agreed it did sound very realistic.īut how good the sound is will also depend on each specific game/application - I've come to realise that the audio production in Guild Wars 2 is actually very good - I haven't noticed as good sound effects in other games that I've played since.
It sounded so nice that I spent some time running around the game just listening to different sound effects e.g. I used to play Guild Wars 2 and at first I was only using onboard sound (because I was in the middle of upgrading my system) but when I started using my Xonar DX I immediately noticed how much better the sound quality was (warmer, more depth, more detail). I think the Asus Xonar DX is definitely a massive improvement over Realtek ALC892 (although I don't know anything about ALC1150).
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