Sidney

Asus is onto a winner in some respects - the bundle is the best
we've seen to date, the card is made extremely well and includes some
awesome features. However, these features are still identical to the
CMedia Oxygen chipset we've been looking at for nearly the last year
now. The software included has potential, but it's the usual "looks good
and sacrifices ease of use" and the drivers in Vista still need some
work, but its certainly better than the CMedia Oxygen drivers (although
not its software). If you were a hardcore gaming nut, you still wouldn't
buy this over an X-Fi - that's a given, but for the casual to regular
gamer it will still suffice and with more and more games including Dolby
features over EAX, like Bioshock for example, both cards should offer an
equal temptation.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...sus_xonar_d2/1

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