$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best

[Istik]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl ... /08/222220

Sound card giant Creative caught plenty of flak for its recent driver debacle, and has long been criticized for bullying competitors and stifling innovation. But few have been willing to compete with Creative head-on, allowing the company to milk its X-Fi audio processor for more than two and a half years. Now the SoundBlaster has a new challenger in the form of Asus' $90 Xonar DX, which delivers much better sound quality than the X-Fi, PCI Express connectivity, and support for real-time Dolby Digital Live encoding. The Xonar can even emulate the latest EAX positional audio effects, providing the most complete competition to the X-Fi available on the market."

[A'Ton Sands]

At last, I have been upset with Creative for some time since Vista came out.
I know now what my next sound card will be and it wont be a Creative one.

[gelfling]

This is interesting news. Creative's drivers have been crappy for a while.