![]() STX II + H6 is pretty much a dual slot configuration which i simply don't have the room for with my SLI setup and on top of that it comes with a butt ugly grey IDE type cable to connect the STX II and the H6 together. STX II 7.1 is the closest that comes to that description but in depends on the H6 add-on board for connectivity. Personally i would like to see a D3X which would be a mix of the D2X's connectivity and form factor combined with the quality components and circuitry of the Essense STX II and to be nice it would have the PCIe connector from the Phoebus but nothing else from the Phoebus It seems like a pretty nice investment for the future, right? ![]() Now my current speakers aren't top notch, they're faily cheap hi-fi speakers.Ĭombined with a pretty old amplifier I'm not even sure if I will hear any difference between de D2X and my onboard Supreme FX (which is realle just a Realtek 1150 with an Asus software flavor).īut i think € 60,- with shipping included is quite the bargain for a D2X, it's only 2 years old. I listen to about every genre of music from hiphop to techno to (punk)rock and classical/older music. Good ingame sound is always nice, but it will mostly be used to listen to music. I really love hi-fi speakersets and I'm hoping to expand my 2.0 speakerset to perhaps a better 2.1 set or maybe a 5.1 set. I'll be hooking up a fairly cheap 2.0 speakerset onto the soundcard a Klipsch B2 2.0 set, powered by an even simpeler Pinoeer A-339 Amplifier. I will not be using a headset or headphones, I really don't like the sound of any headphones. My starting post was rather short as both cards are second hand, so I have to decide rather quick (today) which one I want, or they might be goners. Thanks for the long, clear and elobrate answer Tuoni. ![]() which in that case you might wonder if you're not better off with something like an Objective2 anyway. My advise: Get the D2X unless the headphone amp is a must have. ![]() Guess you can say that i don't really understand the "gaming" aspect of the Phoebus. But since the Phoebus is aimed at the gaming audience, the same audience that most likely will pair the Phoebus with a gaming headset and not with a high quality headphone where the amp would actually be of any real use. On the hardware side there is nothing that makes it really different and "gaming" orientated compared with the D2X. Which leads to my own question What makes the Phoebus a "gaming" sound card over lets say the D2X? I can't really see what makes the Phoebus a "gaming" sound card other then some software fluff that you can question you need in the first place in a seriously flawed driver package. Headphone amp becomes interesting when you are looking at some decent quality headphones (read carefully, i said headphones not headset). I can tell you now that the D2X can drive all the gaming headsets that are currently on the market without problems. So in the end it really depends on how important the build in headphone amp is for you. you prolly going to need to get an molex/PCIe to floppy power adapter (not included) or run a separate wire from your PSU just for the D2X.ĭ2X is some years old now but it uses some decent quality components and is only really surpassed by the Xonar STX(II) cards when it comes to SQ. Who has a floppy connector in his/her system in 2015. Only drawback of the D2X is that it needs a floppy connector for power unlike the Phoebus which uses PCIe or Essence series which uses molex. Probably the most important thing is that the D2X can use the UNi Xonar drivers, that alone will make the D2X the winner for me. What are you going to use it with? That 65 euro is better spend somewhere else if you're just going to plug your 30 euro gaming headset in it.ĭ2X uses quality components for all 8 channels unlike the Phoebus which only has TI BB for the headphone and front out, the surround channels are handled by only a so so quality CL.
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