PCI-Express sound cards

[Asus]

Thank god.
More choices. yay
It's silly for Creative to stick with PCI when everyone else is trying expand and move on.

And I guess the Asus card has "Audio Loopback Transformation" which is supposed to circumvent DRM copy protection without loss of sound quality.

 

[Barney Fife]

So these cards will based on PCIe x1?

 

[VirusType2]

I wonder if it's not too late to return this card tomorrow. X-Fi using traditional PCI does not work for many of us. Much of the time, the problems are sited as being due to problems related to the PCI interface.

 

[Asus]

So these cards will based on PCIe x1?

Not sure but I would think so. Probably doesn't need any more bandwidth. I have an ATI tv tuner that is 1x.

 

[Barney Fife]

Not sure but I would think so. Probably doesn't need any more bandwidth. I have an ATI tv tuner that is 1x.

OK. Only time will tell. I always hoped that someone will step up to the plate and make this PCe x1 slot very useful.

 

[giant384]

about time they start using those slots i never use. also it would allow better cooling to the video card.

 

[Adabiviak]

I've been waiting for SCSI cards on the PCI-e bus to come down in price. The only other thing I've seen for the smaller ports are network interface cards, and I don't know of many motherboards that have this type of bus with no on-board network interface. Nice!

 

[-Psy-]

I don't even know if I have a spare PCI-E slot. D:

 

[giant384]

I don't even know if I have a spare PCI-E slot. D:

you use all of your pci-e 1x and 4x slots???

 

[-Psy-]

I guess I must have a load spare then.

All I have in a PCI-E slot is my X1900GT.