ASUS Xonar DGX 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express x1 Interface Gaming Audio Card

Pros: Work Well, easy install. create great sound for all devices

Cons: None so far

Pros: I didn't have troubles with the drivers so thats a plus! The card sounds awesome compared to on board audio and makes my speakers and headphones sound awesome. The software is also really awesome and allows you to do a lot. It's also very easy to use and looks good. Also the bracket goes really well with my case (Corsair 200R) It's kind of a dark smokey grey color It looks really nice.

Cons: Technically this isn't a Con since it's suppose to do it. But when I first plugged it in and switched to my FP headers I heard a "click" noise. I googled "Asus xonar dg click sound" and found out that it's actually normal and Asus does that on purpose. It's not that loud, and barely noticeable anymore though.

Also I did have one problem from the first time I tried it. When I hooked up my speakers and tried some music, the left speaker wouldn't put out any sound. I tried making sure it wasn't my speaker so I disabled the Xonar card and hooked my speakers to my onboard audio which the speakers worked fine. I then tried disabling the onboard audio through the BIOS and after that it worked and I haven't had a single problem since.

Other Thoughts: TL;DR - This card is great for a budget. The drivers worked perfectly for me and I had no problems setting it up. Theres a small "click" when switching to the FP audio but it's not annoying or anything. I couldn't get my left speaker to put out any sound when I first tried. But after disabling my onboard audio it was fixed and I haven't had any problems since. I would recommend this card to anyone with a low budget however for $50 you can get the Xonar DS and $10 more the DSX which I think I should have done. But either way I do not regret this purchase as I have nothing really to complain about!

Pros: It didn't fall apart when physically hooking it up to my desktop

Cons: Like other posters I couldn't get the drivers to install. I disabled my onboard sound and uninstalled all driver..still couldn't get it to work. This was a complete was of my time and money. Should have listened to other reviews! I'm running Windows 7 64bit

Pros: Easy installation. Drivers installed easily.

Cons: Had playback issues with some games.* Microphone issues with my headset.**

Other Thoughts: *I am an avid League of Legends player. My on-board audio went out randomly one day. I did some research and decided to buy a new audio card. I found this one, the specs looked good, so I decided to buy it. The card was delivered fine and packaging was fine. I installed the card with ease, and downloaded the drivers. I was excited to get back to gaming with sound again (I do not have speakers, just a headset). I got on League of Legends, and right away something was different. I would hear game sounds perfectly fine for about 5 seconds. Then, SOME sounds would just go out (completely muted) for another 5 seconds. It was very irritating. I opened the Xonar DGX Audio Center and modified some settings, which fixed the problem a little bit. It still happened, but not as often as before. I took my headset and plugged it into my laptop and played League of Legends to see if it was just a problem with my headset, but it wasn't. The sound was perfectly fine on my laptop. I just decided to deal with it for a while, thinking the problem might go away on its own.
**The problem got worse and worse as the days passed, and when I tried to tweak my settings again today, my microphone completely stopped working. Playback was fine, though. Once again I plugged my headset into my laptop, the microphone worked fine. I doubt that this is a compatibility issue, as I have an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard. I am not sure if this audio card is just defective, or if something in my settings got messed up and I am just blind to it.

Pros: Very surprised at the clarity this card gives over on board audio, would definitely recommend this to anyone especially for the price.

Cons: None

Pros: Great sound in all of my games. Music sounds great. Good, clear bass. Can't beat it at this price.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Many have complained about driver install issues. I had a problem until I disabled the onboard sound and uninstalled the realtek drivers. After that, the drivers installed flawlessly.

Pros: Sounds so much better than the realtek ALC 892 that is on my motherboard. Bass is much cleaner and more powerful. The integrated amps help out with that immensely, especially when using headphones. The software control for it is useful. Supports front panel audio.

Cons: Sound cards? Ain't nobody got time for that!

Other Thoughts: One final note, if you are using headphones, you have to go into the software to change the impedance level to 64ohm to make the headphone output volume loud enough.

Pros: low price, nice features

Cons: drivers wouldn't install on windows 7 no matter what I did - tried downloading latest drivers from Asus website etc. googled the error and found people have had issues with windows 7 drivers with no solution. newegg returned for credit and I installed another better known brand with zero issues

Pros: Cheap. Nice bundled software. Puts out 5.1. Unlike what some of the reviewers have said, this card does put out 5.1, although not through SPDIF. You just need a "multichannel" home theater receiver that has discrete inputs for each of the channels, as most receivers do these days.

Cons: The fact that 5.1 does not work through SPDIF is conveniently left out in the manual... I am sure this was not a simple oversight.

Other Thoughts: In retrospect, I would have chipped in $20 more for a Dolby Digital Live card. Oh well.

Pros: PCI-E X1, 5.1 channel, Optical and HDMI connectors. Smart Volume Normalization (SVN).

Cons: Driver may seem a bit unstable. See other thoughts.

Other Thoughts: Although I have only had the card a couple days, I must say not bad for $40. The Smart Volume Normalization works very well, it brought out sounds that I was not aware existed in music I played.

Also, this doesn't happen too often, but the Driver CD bundled actually contained the latest available driver. Whenever I buy new hardware I usually disregard the CDs and go straight to the manufacturer website for the latest drivers.

Per the cons, the driver seemed to malfunction the first couple times I installed it. After rebooting the machine, I lost my sound...twice. It was remedied by going to Device Manager and uninstalling the card and doing a refresh to re-detect the card. It has not happened a third time...yet.