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Question: Would this be better than the onboard MSI motherboard z87-g45 soundcard?
Document: After years of listening to my onboard audio, I decided to make an upgrade to the sound. I listen to music (MP3 and FLAC) all day at work, so I figured an audio upgrade would be worthwhile.Using my Sennheiser HD265 headphones, the improvement with this card is great. Music and movies sound much clearer, and I notice details I hadn't before. Sure, the card costs as much as my motherboard did, but I have no regrets!Installation was quick and easy with Windows 7 64b.
When the audio chip on my motherboard started causing me bluescreens, I started looking for something I had never had to purchase before in my long life of owning, building, and modifying computers: a sound card. My main concern was that I would end up losing the ability to plug my headphones in quickly when I got a voice chat request. Luckily, this replacement was even better than I had hoped.
The music setting sounded like a echo chamber, very under impressed.The second computer i tried was a new build at home, using the asus sabertooth for my AMD build. on this machine i have not used headphones, and was not even sure if the onboard sound would be bad enough to warrant this card. i figured if not i'll take it back to work were it really helped.. Well it is staying in the new build because it sounded better than the on-board.
I like this  Soundcard . After using a lot of Onboard soundcards, it definetely enhance my music experience overall. Bass a lot tighter and upper frequencies detailed. My complain it doesn't have a dedicated microphone output, it shares with optic output.
This sound card works, mostly. There's nothing seriously wrong with it, but I have a few concerns that reduce its value for me quite a bit...Most importantly, I can hear no difference in sound quality between this one and the old, crappy, integrated Realtek in my MSI P43 Neo-F motherboard.
The board sounds great! Getting it to run was not at all straightforward. I have an ASUS motherboard with Windows 7 32-bit and used the onboard audio for quite a while. Getting the new software sorted out was not at all simple. Disabling onboard audio didn't stop SoundMAX from trying to start up at boot time and getting in the way of anything. I gave up on the install CD - it takes over the screen and hides message boxes that require replies.
Just for reference, I returned the card and switched back to my onboard audio which in comparison has no lag. Heck, my laptop's onboard audio has no lag. Quite shocking from a sound card that costs almost as much as my motherboard. My computer is a quad-core AMD FX-4100, Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboard, XFX HD-485X-ZNFC video card, 12 GB Ram, Win 7 x64.
Tried my luck with the sound card and have to say that the on broad audio of my Intel DG35EC Motherboard is 3 times better. Do not plan to by anything else from ASUS, the driver was way buggy, the audio was choppy and clicks every time the audio changes.
This is a relatively cheap sound card but it definitely does a better job than the 7.1 chip on my new motherboard. I use Sennheiser HD595's through a Sony amp while listening to all genre of music. This card is accurate, doesn't impose any coloration and feels relatively flat across the spectrum.Negative is the lack of color coding on the inputs/outputs. Colors have been standard for a very long time.
Eww. The Realtek onboard audio chip automatically detected when I inserted headphones in and swapped the audio over to them without my intervention. This would have been a hassle not worth dealing with had the sound quality pumping through my headphones not been amazing.My music sounded wonderful! The bass was immensely improved on my bass-challenged HD 555's and every other measure of sound quality was noticeably improved over the onboard audio I'd been used to listening to for three years. Next up were movies.
Answer: What makes this card awesome is the amount of settings you can change, I used this to fuel the razer tiamats 7.1, a very missunderstood headset, because it needs a great sound card, I have a intel xtreme series motherboard with the newest realteck sound chip, and if you just install the xonar with the regular drivers, there will be no diference, but if you install the unidriver, and move some settings, then this xonar card will blow your mind I guarantee it, I have a very extended review on the tiamats paired with this sound card, if u want it, just tell me, but if you just dont want to read that mouch, Im pretty sure that you will love this card over the integrated you own