Asus Xonar D2X Expert Reviews

Much 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 ...

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

We're more troubled by this card's PCI Express support. Our D2X simply wouldn't work on two different EVGA 680i SLI motherboards, and users have reported issues with nForce 790i boards as well. Asus tells us the problems are related to a BIOS issue ...

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

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.

However, the last couple of months have seen a few changes and (hopefully) improvements upon the D2, which brings us to today's review.  Out goes PCI support in favour of a PCI Express 1x interface, and the drivers for this board have also had an ...

When we reviewed the PCI Xonar D2 a couple of months back, we certainly weren't expecting quite such a fast response from ASUS to some of its criticisms.  While on the surface the D2X is simply the same board with a PCI Express interface, it's clear ...

We look at what could finally be the sound card to knock Creative off their high horse - ASUS' Xonar D2 fully tested! Introduction

The Taiwan based company has decided to get fully into the world of PC sound and to challenge other ...

After long years of dominance by Creative is doing something on the sound card market. The beginning made in mid-2007 Razer, with the Barracuda AC1 courage up with its own gaming sound card present and the powerful X-Fi competing against. Shortly afterwar...

As the already excellent Xonar D2 has also convinced the Xonar D2X on the line, because Asus' premium sound card produced at the highest level, but is not just as cheap to call

A Sound of Asus? Yes. Recently, Asus is also taking in the world of sound cards. We see the Xonar D2X, one of the few sound card with a pci-express interface .

+ Very good, basic musical exemplary finishing + + Fijne drivers and software users

- little or no relief in cpu-games

The Asus Xonar D2X is a wonderful product. Asus has the Burr Brown, Cirrus converters and certainly not on the hardware savings. The colored indicator LEDs that Asus has made, and are particularly useful to the user much good. For gamers, this card less i...