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ASUS to Ship 500K Xonar D2X Sound Cards

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C-Media Electronics should see stronger profits and sales in 2007 amid the anticipated royalty gains following the announcement of Asustek Computer's new Xonar D2X high-end audio cards. Asustek plans to ship 500,000 Xonar D2X audio cards which adopt C-Media's solutions in 2007 after seeing satisfactory sales following the card's introduction at CeBIT 2007 in Hannover, Germany. The audio card, which will primarily target the gaming market, features 3D sound processing and supports Dolby Digital Live, DTS and 5.1 surround sound. C-Media is reported to earn US$10-20 for each Xonar D2X Asustek sells. If Asustek reaches its target of shipping 500,000 units in 2007, or 100,000 units per month, the design house can expect royalty payments to reach US$5-10 million. More information about the ASUS Xonar D2X sound card can be found here.

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Now we need a price and a review, but atleast they beat creative with pci-e 1x cards. Creative "has" optical out and a shorter card. This would go over my nf4 which has a tall passive heatsink in replace the lowprofile active one that would fit under the card, but I could always change that.
 
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I'd love to get it too. On that Maximum PC review I was talking about...they only dinged the Auzentech with the C Media Oxygen HD audio chip for gaming. It was a slow down in FPS and also in some sound that was "out of position". For entertainment, it was great. They gave the Razar the same thing, except its gaming was a little better, though, it still had to have the cpu do the positioning audio.

If Asus can make this without needing the CPU to handle the sound positioning and such, then it will be a great card. Also, this would free up a PCI slot on my new Abit AT8 mobo and allow me even more upgrade flexibility. Not to mention, this would fit in between my crossfire cards, when I get them.
 
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tkpenalty said:
w00t I love this, I can put the Sound card above my GPU!!! :rockout:
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You might just luck out. Measured the card by image comparison and the ASUS Xonar is so long it would go over my first memory slot. On the bottom pci-e 1x it would block one sata slot and in the middle pcie-e 1x slot it would be right on top of NF4 :/ Not looking so good after all.

On your motherboard in same scale it would be veryverycloseifnottouching the first memory slot.
 
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