The Xonar DG is a remarkably inexpensive half-height PCI sound card, but it isn't cheap and nasty. With 5.1 analogue surround sound, the obligatory optical S/PDIF output and variable impedance settings so that you can optimise the card's analogue stereo output for various types of headphones, it has...

Excellent value for money

Wouldn't work initially; Asus help was useless; eventually managed to download the latest drivers and it worked; still struggling to get the line in working

Asus has established itself as a player in the high rollers' hi-fi lounge with Xonar soundcards like the Xense, D2 and mighty Essence ST. Although still relatively new to the audio game, it can look old timers like Creative and Auzentech in the face without shame.

Affordable, feature packed, 5.1 channel sound, headphone amp and built in S/PDIF, this is the ASUS

Great soundcard. Easy install. Port for front PC headphone jack. Bought headphones to life after suffering cruddy onboard audio. Built in amplifier works well. Not huge amounts of power, but a huge improvemnt will be noticed. Software supplied has an excellent and easy to use equaliser!

With 177 different awards to date for the Xonar line-up, it's time to find out if that figure is going any higher today as we welcome the Xonar DG into our war room.

Boosts your headphones sound by a very good deal, easy to install and setup. comes with wuick setup manual and a CD for drivers. Only con that i could find is that, the CD did not work for me and did not install anything, but a quick lookup in ASUS website can solve that problem.

I found it, this is the posting that I bought! Bought it a while ago to fix my problem with gigabyte z68ap-d3 making annoying background hiss, depending on GPU load. I thought it was my gpu, but I tried another and had the same problem. So I swapped power supples, same thing!

An awesome card for headphone users. You get a nice built-in headphone amp, along with dolby headpho..

Worked fine immediately after installation (with minor complaint: every time we restarted our computer we had to reconfigure device to output sound to the connected 2-channel speakers, rather than the default: 2-channel front-panel headphones, which were NOT connected).