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I don't know why but I've always liked the look of dedicated sound cards.  Lets see what you're using in your systems.  Also I know not much about them so an overview or your thoughts on your card would be great.

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I use the on board sound, So I never had a use for a dedicated card

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Not enough of an audiophile to have one. Not that anyone really needs a dedicated sound card with such amazing onboard audio in 2014 anyway.

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don't have one. I think the Motherboard these days have a fine audio on board. Better than before at least

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I have a Sound Blaster Live! sitting somewhere in the old PC parts bin

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I have a Xonar DG, selling it with my motherboard. This MSI board i bought has great sound.

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One of the better purchases I have made in regards to my PC.

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I used to use a sound blaster audidgy 2 zs but on board now is good enough

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If you can deal with pics of my soundcards already installed in my systems, I can oblige. But if you them taken out of my systems, it's too much work for me. I have four soundcards in four systems, of which three are listed in my sig, fourth being an X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion + front panel IO box.

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Dont have a sound card anymore so I suppose this will suffice:

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I love this card. Even if it is not entirely necessary I still love it.

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EDIT: It's a Xonar Essence STX

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I used to have an Audigy 4 with my 2008 Q6600 PC. When I got my 2013 PC, I felt the onboard sounded significantly better than my sound card. That's when it hit me just how far onboard sound has evolved. Today, onboard sound is more than enough (in a new mobo anyways) for most people... Some people want more power to drive a harder to drive headphone, maybe so, but in terms of noise, distortion, blah blah... It's very good.

 

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If you can deal with pics of my soundcards already installed in my systems, I can oblige. But if you them taken out of my systems, it's too much work for me. I have four soundcards in four systems, of which three are listed in my sig, fourth being an X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion + front panel IO box.

Post em.

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I use an aging Audiophilleo 1 USB Transport connected to a Cambridge Audio 840C CDP/DAC.

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I'm thinking of switching to an M2Face Hiface Evo and an 851C. 

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Obligatory "soundcards are crap" post.

 

 

 

mang u dont even have that anymore but its so sxc pls.

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mang u dont even have that anymore but its so sxc pls.

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I don't really use my rigs for audio appreciation or music, that I reserve for my Marantz receiver and CD player.....though I'm thinking of hooking up my 4th rig to it to turn it into a HTPC. I can provide some pics of the cards within and without the rigs. Let me start off with my latest acquisition, a used X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion:

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Installed on my Asus Maximus II Formula.....pardon the rather bad image as I'd shot it thru the acrylic side panel which was a tad dirty and scratched.

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Next up is the Asus Xonar Phoebus Solo, a shot of it just before I'd installed it in my 2nd rig. Note that on the 2nd pic below, you can see that I'd had to use a 6pin PCIe connector for it.

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I use Asus xonar U7 usb 7.1 sound card,superb value for money card it has optical,7.1,dolby htv4,headphone amp and microphone and soundquality is stunning for the price.post-109344-0-05200800-1411824798_thumb.

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"Post your sound card"

First three posts are "I don't have one".

Yeah it's retarded but I ignore them and look for pictures. Some people have to come in even if they have nothing to say.

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