

While it's pretty sure AE-5 gets driver support well past 2025.Ĭreative even offers Win10 drivers for dozen years old "Why would anyone even want to use it anymore?" cards.Īnd Creative uses built in own house sound chips, so they don't have to ask/beg any outside company for newer drivers. While costing more for not as good headphone output.Īnd in case of luxury priced Xonar Essence having very uncertain driver support for long term and average Dolby Headphone for headphone gaming. My problem is that i dont know from these 3 which to buyįor your use neither of those Asus cards has anything over it. Over ear or close ear? what is the best for games? fps/? So which soyndcard to buy for games music and movies? between these 3?Īsus Strix Raid DLX or Asus Essence STX II 7.1? or sound BlasterX AE-5 ? I want this headphones for to play games, listen music and movies Now for headphones i have sentheizer game zero butĬan you suggested me please which headphones to buy? Which to buy Asus Strix Raid DLX or Asus Essence STX II 7.1? or sound BlasterX AE-5 ? I dont want to do one mistake and to buy one soyndcard which will not be good.įor this reason i came to you for to help me and to make one decision./Īnd i ask my apologizes for my english are not very good Too expensive, Creative AE-5 is in the same price bracketįor this reasons i dont know which to buyīut i see a lot of negatives for the soundcard from asus. Driver support is alive-ish, but no 3rd-party driver development. Most people brand it as garbage card because of how junky the drivers were at launch (and gaming branded stuff is usually perceived as garbage if not proven otherwise). Quality not known as few people own the card and there are no measurements to look at.

Had the banshee scream on my Xonar D1 which uses same C-Media chip, and people like totally dubbed had it too. Some bugs still exist, like the banshee scream. Driver support is deader than dead as C-Media dropped the chipset from their driver development. +/- Used to have good 3rd-party driver development. (those are surely short circuit protected in case you would like to jam iron nail into headphone output.) Though compared to facepalm level 100 ohm output impedance of lower Strix Raid Pro/Soar it would be stellar. Strix Raid DLX has exactly same TPA6120 and 10 ohm output impedance losing to SBX AE-5. Neither is Dolby Heaphone of those Xonars that great for headphone gaming. While AE-5 has 1 ohm output impedance quaranteeing ideal damping factor and insignificant frequency response changes with any headphone. With C-Media not even offering Win10 drivers directly:Īlso its headphone output is based onto TPA6120 with typical 10 ohm output impedance making it technically not greatest for low impedance headphones. So hope for driver supports relies also on C-Media's interest on supporting that old sound chip. Sound BlasterX AE-5 has pretty much everything, regardless if you want to have both speakers and headphones and it has one of the best headphone outputs of any sound card.Įssence STX II is built around very old PCI sound chip used through PCI-e bridge chip.

WHAT IS THE DIFERENCE BETWEEN Asus Strix Raid DLX or Asus Essence STX II 7.1? and sound BlasterX AE-5 ? In music i am hearing everything trance house all the kind of music. So which soundcard are you suggested me to buy?Īsus Strix Raid DLX or Asus Essence STX II 7.1? sound BlasterX AE-5 ? I want the soundcard for games, music and movies What is the difference between Asus Strix Raid DLX and Asus Essence STX II 7.1 ?sound BlasterX AE-5 ? and which is the best? Hi i want to buy one new soundcard and i am between Asus Strix Raid DLX and Asus Essence STX II 7.1 and sound BlasterX AE-5 ?
