Buy.com has the ASUS XONAR DX 7.1 Channels PCI Express Sound Card for $83 - $20 rebate [Exp 10/26] = $63 with free shipping. The Xonar DX is capable of delivering 35 times cleaner audio quality with 116dB SNR in comparison to most motherboard onboard audio.
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Budman - Posted 10:45 am PDT 10/6/08 (525 Posts)
Does this claim (35x cleaner sound) still hold if you are using an SPDIF output? I would guess the S/N ratio COULD be better with this card but then again, to be 35x better would require something like approximately a 15db to 18db S/N difference. I'm thinking that the SPDIF output of my motherboard is better than 90db but I could be wrong.
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hurl3.0 - Posted 1:41 pm PDT 10/6/08 (1767 Posts)
what's a sound card?
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kobo33 - Posted 5:11 pm PDT 10/6/08 (115 Posts)
finally, a use for the PCIe slot?
meh, maybe if it had optical in
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