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System Name | Obelisc |
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Processor | i7 3770k @ 4.8 GHz |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V |
Cooling | H110 |
Memory | 16GB(4x4) @ 2400 MHz 9-11-11-31 |
Video Card(s) | GTX 780 Ti |
Storage | 850 EVO 1TB, 2x 5TB Toshiba |
Case | T81 |
Audio Device(s) | X-Fi Titanium HD |
Power Supply | EVGA 850 T2 80+ TITANIUM |
Software | Win10 64bit |
I gave my Forte to a friend and got a deal on a Titanium HD. He started having crackling issues and during the course of looking up the issue and discovering what an epic pandemic it is I start having the same damn problem. It's a problem with the drivers that has no solution. They can't recreate it in the lab which I can only attribute to utter incompetence if it's so insanely common. Between having to restart the driver every so often to lessen the crackling and the whole not being able to drive my HD 598s nearly as well as the Forte I'm just about sick of dealing with soundcards.
Even with fixing the crackle I'd still be left knowing that one of these days I'm going to power off my pc and have the damn driver's lose my card so then I have to go wipe out 200-400 registry entries to do a fresh driver install. The only hope is there's rumblings that Windows 8 has much improved audio handling but do I really want to wait half a year for something that might not fix jack shit.
I'm considering getting another Denon AVR-1612 with some RC-10s or CB-20s and hooking it up with HDMI. The one thing holding me back is I don't think I can get open al processing in games going that route. A mild issue now but with Windows 8 and the return of hardware sound I might miss it more and more.
You know this shit should not be this complicated. Somebody is blowing it at every turn and we have to pay the price. Messed up part is now that I think about it I had little crackling issues from day one on that Forte too but it was limited to a few flacs and other people with different cards reported the same stuff with flacs, but when I plugged my phones into the Denon and used HDMI everything was flawless.
Side notes, Forte driver package and installer = awesome.
Titanium HD drivers = skimpy but mildly overhauled compared to all other X-Fi card drivers. They're much more responsive in the control panel. Also the HD sucks balls for headphones. I think it's "dedicated headphone amp" doesn't actually exist.
Even with fixing the crackle I'd still be left knowing that one of these days I'm going to power off my pc and have the damn driver's lose my card so then I have to go wipe out 200-400 registry entries to do a fresh driver install. The only hope is there's rumblings that Windows 8 has much improved audio handling but do I really want to wait half a year for something that might not fix jack shit.
I'm considering getting another Denon AVR-1612 with some RC-10s or CB-20s and hooking it up with HDMI. The one thing holding me back is I don't think I can get open al processing in games going that route. A mild issue now but with Windows 8 and the return of hardware sound I might miss it more and more.
You know this shit should not be this complicated. Somebody is blowing it at every turn and we have to pay the price. Messed up part is now that I think about it I had little crackling issues from day one on that Forte too but it was limited to a few flacs and other people with different cards reported the same stuff with flacs, but when I plugged my phones into the Denon and used HDMI everything was flawless.
Side notes, Forte driver package and installer = awesome.
Titanium HD drivers = skimpy but mildly overhauled compared to all other X-Fi card drivers. They're much more responsive in the control panel. Also the HD sucks balls for headphones. I think it's "dedicated headphone amp" doesn't actually exist.