Not sure if this should go here or in motherboards but here's the question. Would you yank an Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card from an older PC and put it in your new build? Or use the MOBO onboard audio? When it comes to audio components it's all Greek to me. But I know it was an expensive at the time sound card with quality components. But why exactly they are so good is beyond me. All I know is I've really enjoyed this card for the past 8 years. The only issue I've ever had is this, which is apparently from a driver issue which is not going to ever be fixed.
But it's only happened 3 times in the whole time I've owned it. lol But it is scary as F on the rare occasions it did happen because it's out of the blue. But I question the claim of damaging hearing. It's loud but not that bad and I've always used this card with nice Sennheiser 598 headphones, which I'm going to continue to use for the new PC.
The specs from the STX.
I can't find any reviews of just the MOBO audio. It's too new of a board and all reviews are covering the whole board. But what specs I can find is from Asrock's site.
https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z490 Taichi/index.asp#Specification
So old but quality tech with an in my opinion minor bug since it's so rare, or new tech and a lot more basic components? Bear in mind it's also for listening to music, not just games. I don't know which to use but I hope you do.
ASUS Xonar cards and loud white noise issue
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The specs from the STX.
||ASUS USA
www.asus.com
I can't find any reviews of just the MOBO audio. It's too new of a board and all reviews are covering the whole board. But what specs I can find is from Asrock's site.
https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z490 Taichi/index.asp#Specification
- 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
- Premium Blu-ray Audio support
- Supports Surge Protection
- WIMA Audio Capacitors (For Front Outputs)
- ESS SABRE9218 DAC for Front Panel Audio (130dB SNR)
- Pure Power-In
- Direct Drive Technology
- PCB Isolate Shielding
- Impedance Sensing on Rear Out port
- Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
- Gold Audio Jacks
- 15μ Gold Audio Connector
- Nahimic Audio
SteelSeries Nahimic | Audio Driver And Software
Nahimic is a premium audio driver and app built into the heart of select PCs. Break every sound barrier. bring your 7.1 surround sound to the fore.
www.nahimic.com
So old but quality tech with an in my opinion minor bug since it's so rare, or new tech and a lot more basic components? Bear in mind it's also for listening to music, not just games. I don't know which to use but I hope you do.