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- Sep 28, 2007
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Processor | Athlon II X4 630 |
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Motherboard | Biostar TA790GXBE |
Cooling | TRUE Rev. C |
Memory | 4GB DDR2 |
Video Card(s) | Powercolor 6950 2GB (Xtreme Plus II mod) |
Storage | Samsung 2TB |
Display(s) | HP 19" CRT |
Audio Device(s) | on-board Realtek |
Power Supply | OCZ 400W |
Software | Win7 x64 Ultimate |
The main issue I have with these high-end soundcards is that they don't generally have multi-streaming. With my on-board Realtek soundchip, I can have game audio coming out the rear port and Teamspeak3 audio coming out the front port for my headphones. Or I can use the front port for gaming and TS3 audio and set my music player to play out the rear port, for some background music whilst playing or to listen to when not playing.
So it's quite frustrating to know that if I spend money on buying one of these cards, they can't do this. Of course, I could still use the Realtek to drive my headphones when gaming and use the Xonar rear output just for music but that makes it rather pointless buying it as it won't be used at all for gaming. Or I could connect my headphones to the Xonar and connect the rear Realtek output to my Hi-Fi for music but then I'm not getting any benefit from the Xonar when playing music, so that sucks as well.
So it's quite frustrating to know that if I spend money on buying one of these cards, they can't do this. Of course, I could still use the Realtek to drive my headphones when gaming and use the Xonar rear output just for music but that makes it rather pointless buying it as it won't be used at all for gaming. Or I could connect my headphones to the Xonar and connect the rear Realtek output to my Hi-Fi for music but then I'm not getting any benefit from the Xonar when playing music, so that sucks as well.