Just a few years ago, if someone said that integrated audio would deliver great performance with many of the features of a full-blown add-in card, it might have raised an eyebrow or two.  Today, however, thanks to vastly improved integrated technologies, today's integrated audio solutions are often

Very Good Audio Reproduction; Excellent surround-sound and spatial positioning performance; Good Gaming Performance; EAX 5.0 Support

Limited CPU off-load benefits; Skimpy Documentation; Lite Retail Bundle

Great card. Could use a slightly better headphone amp but that's my only gripe. Spending another $50-$75 would net you that but spending more if your not editing or producing would be kind of silly.

I bought this for a build while I was in the process of setting my credit on fire, I still don't regret this purchase; The price tier that this sound card is on is perfect for people who want a nice step above motherboard audio and don't mind spending $50 > $100.

There aren't many cons with this audio card except for a few sort ofs: Keep in mind; this card does not have digital optical!!! Don't buy it without reading and trash/complain about this card here because you weren't paying attention!

Hooked this up to my original speakers and I could instantly tell the difference. The mids and highs sounded much clearer and I was able to hear instruments that I couldn't hear before. Even made me go out and buy a new set of speakers to maximize my investment.

big improvement over onboard sound

software is a bit clunky; will likely make you buy a new set of speakers; a bit pricey

Went to ASUS website and downloaded Windows 10 drivers for the ASUS Xonar-DX sound card. Drivers work perfectly - no problems whatsoever. My system: Core i7-8700K cpu ASRock Z370 Extreme4 motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 CL15 RAM MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X video card Quick Start...

Got this card installed on a new system. Sound quality is outstanding.. the problem is the drivers are crap. For many EAX games you must disabled the GX mode of the card or you will not only experience constant CTD's you will also find the sound ends up looping and the only way to fix it is a hard...

It took me several hours to install this but I am not holding it against the card or Asus. I have an EVGA 780i MoBo runing with an iVidia 8800GTX graphics card on 1100 watts PSU on Win7 (32) and at first my board would not even recognize the card. Software update for Win 7 would not install, etc.

Easy To Use; NIce user interface; Quality Output

Difficult To Install

Was upgrading my kids PC. They listen to a lot of music and play a lot of games on their machine, decided to put in a sound card for better quality and (in theory) a little less CPU utilization. This was the perfect choice in terms of price and performance.

Low profile; sound quality an improvement over motherboard option; affordable alternative to Creative cards

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This card is kick ass puts out a super sound every thing you read about it is true just an all around nice souding card

I shall be short. Tech specs are not bad. Or at least were not bad, when card came out. Dobly Surround 7.1 It had bells and whistles, like hardware accelerated 3D sound extensions. Digital output. It has 24kbit and sample rate of whooping 192000, which is pretty cool.

Cheap; Linux friendly; PCI Express X1

Requires floppy connector; rather unstable inside motherboard

Well is is a ASUS product one of the best names in my opinion. Also these cards r way better then a Creative card any day of the week. Also great driver support from ASUS themselves. I have had it for lust a little over a month now and it it doing good.

None to talk about at this time