The product is very good, the quality of the sound is amazing. If you wanna buy something for Voice recording, Pc Home Cinema, Gaming together I believe that is the best choice.

A1 PLUS for all PC sound. Pair up with a nice set of speakers and you will be ballin'. To Lil G AKA WHINER: B.S. Is all the needs to be said. What is a Windows 98 card doing in an Alien ware case?

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 that makes use of the PCI Express interface.

The EAX 5 hack is commendable and the card's LED lights add flash

Initially spotty PCI-E support that must be fixed with a BIOS update

The quality of sound that can be produced by this card is amazing and I personally think it cannot be beaten. The card is really easy to install (Even for beginners). The only two negatives i can think of is that it produces a lot of heat and the lights on the inside are very unnecessary.

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.

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

I originally moved from a Sound Blaster card because it had terrible Windows 7 support. The DX2 worked great for a time, but then it started having driver problems out of no where.

Good quality sound the first year or so; Lighted connections are a nice touch

EMI; LOOOOOOOTS of it after two years' use; Included software apparently does nothing; Connections labeled wrong

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 PCI Express x1 connector finally gives you...

» 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" jacks

» Requires power from a floppy connector; adapter not included; » PMP software is a bit limited and rough around the edges; » Price

A couple of months ago, we took a look at ASUS' first true entrant into the burgeoning discrete sound card market, the Xonar D2 .  While we were impressed with the cabling and software bundle, the actual hardware proved itself to be a jack of all trades but master of none, with audio quality not

Today we are reviewing the Asus Cine5 sound bar in combination with Asus' older Xonar D2X 7.1 channel sound card. The Cine5 is a compact speaker designed to simulate 5.1 channel sounds with just one front unit.

This card has been out on the market for a long while now, and I've read a lot of posts with good things to say about it. But, since I'm skeptical by nature, I had to see if this thing lived up to its hype. Well, there's nothing quite like first-hand experience.