ASUS Xonar AE 7.1 Channels PCI Express Interface Sound Card

Pros: Very high quality easy to install perfect drivers from asus running windows 10 64-bit ,sound very superb on my asus x99 gaming motherboard hook up from digital to a onkyo HTR and 2.1 klipsch

Cons: none

Overall Review: Yes if you have a motherboard like a asus rampage V 10, or rampage IV keep the onboard way other low grade motherboard audio stinks

Pros: Great sound quality, for the microsecond it operates

Cons: Impossible to install on Windows 10

Overall Review: Impossible to install on Windows 10. I have removed every driver before attempting to install this card, but this card’s driver causes a severe audio stutter. I’ve been attempting to get this thing working for over a week with no success, and am about to pay someone to try to figure it out, or uninstall it entirely and call it a total loss. The sound that comes out of the card is high quality, but cannot go for 30 seconds before freezing. Absolutely worthless, I wish I had read the reviews before wasting my money, time, and energy on this absolute frustration. Zero stars.

Pros: Excellent gaming sound card. If your motherboard doesn't have a high quality audio chip, this is a great option to improve audio for gaming and movie watching. Great software to control the card and more bells and whistles then you will probably ever need or use.

Cons: It could come with a head phone jack extension cord. The card promotes it's amplified headphone jack. Problem is the jack is on the back of the card in the rear of your PC case. Unless your headphones have a really long cord or are cordless you will need an extension for your headphones or be sitting with your head stuck to the side of your PC.

Overall Review: Overall ASUS quality as always.

Pros: Price

Cons: Software was horrible. Very few options to configure sound. Only use analog but no option for crossover, bass redirect, stereo expand, ect. So unless using a program or game that uses x.1 no bass at all. Even then the bass was subpar.

Overall Review: Returned and got a refurb xfi titanium. Works great with what I have.

Pros: It might work well if it ever started.

Cons: Since your hdmi is not connected during the booting of the pc or some sort of pc behind the scene stuff a driver is not installed making the card useless. And the only driver link that I found to some solution was cut off or abandoned by intel.

Pros: Superficially nice feature set, long-life components.

Cons: I installed this sound card into an ASUS X99-E WS/USB 3.1 motherboard on a computer running Win10 Pro. I had accidentally damaged the headphone jack on the motherboard and did this to get good sound back. The sound quality was nice, but there were drop-outs in sound at least once per minute. I ensured that all drivers (including system drivers) were up to date, and tried every trouble-solving trick. After a couple of weeks I gave up and replaced the card with a SoundBlaster card, which has no sound drop-outs in my system.

Overall Review: It appears the card is simply underpowered for what it tries to do. Cannot recommend.