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Creative Sound BlasterX G5 7.1 HD Audio Portable Sound Card Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2016-04-20

In order to check out the card performances, we have used the Rightmark Audio Analyzer utility (with all effects disabled, in order to get accurate results) which tells an interesting story! The included Cirrus Logic CS4398 DAC along with the Texas Instruments TPA6120A2 headphone amplifier are a very good combination since this new model passes over the Omni 5.1 with flying colors and we can say that it positions itself safely near the internal variants: Titanium HD and Sound Blaster ZxR. This is quite a great deal considering that it is not taking any more extra space inside our computer (some ITX builds do not allow installation of a dedicated sound card) and can be also switched back and forth between consoles, PCs/Laptops but also Macs.

Test Setup and Test Results

Test Setup

CPU: Intel I5 3570K Retail @ 4.7GHz

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 OC

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 2x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

Video: Gigabyte GTX 780 WF OC

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

In order to test the card performances, we have used RightMark Audio Analyzer and setup loopback between the front output of the card and the back input of the Sound BlasterX G5.

Remember! These results are not to be taken as reference because each computer system configuration can produce different noise levels, so you may obtain lower or higher performance results than the ones listed here.

16-bit, 44kHz

X-Fi Titanium HD

Creative Sound Blaster ZxR

Creative Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1

Creative Sound BlasterX G5 7.1

16-bit, 48kHz

X-Fi Titanium

Creative Sound Blaster ZxR

Creative Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1

Creative Sound BlasterX G5 7.1

24-bit, 48kHz

X-Fi Titanium HD

Creative Sound Blaster ZxR

Creative Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1

Creative Sound BlasterX G5 7.1

24-bit, 96kHz

X-Fi Titanium HD

Creative Sound Blaster ZxR

Creative Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1

Creative Sound BlasterX G5 7.1

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