How to enable X-Fi on this motherboard? I keep seeing that it says this audio card is supported, but I can't find any way to enable it.
881651
you need too install the creative drivers on the cd to get full xfi support
881652
I dont have the board anymore, but note that the board SOFTWARE support for X-Fi via the THX TrueStudio Application and Creative Alchemy. I dont use it though as I am using a Asus Xonar DX in my PC.
881653
what u can do is insert your driver disk that comes with the mother board. Do not choose auto install every thing. the scroll down the list of drivers and choose the audio driver and install it.
965712
At the moment the X5 does not have support for any playlists, I asked FiiO a question about playlists and here' their answer "Kindly inform you that, our software engineers are trying to add .m3u playlist into the X5's firmware." I also ran across a thread on head-fi dot org that has FiiO asking the users for input on the requirements, so I suspect they will be coming in the future, but at the moment it can't use or create playlists. **Update 9/14/14*** FiiO has released 2.20 code that has playlist support. I've been using it since beta2.05 and it's worked ok. It's a little rudimentary and you need to edit the m3u files, but it works. Now you can have it's great sound along with playlist support.
133370
The manufacturer drivers are indeed bad on basically all of Asus' sound cards as far as I know, but this can be avoided by installing the Uni-Xonar drivers. These have worked great for me on my Xonar STX and they are quite simple to install. Honestly, if it weren't for the Uni-Xonar drivers, I don't know if I would recommend this card, but thankfully this option exists. My recommendation: Get the STX, install the Uni-Xonar drivers, then enjoy some amazing sound!
1419274
Under lan it shows it has built-in wired connections, but it does not have wifi. Not having built-in wifi is good, through because I have a small usb wifi stick and it works fine for me, plus I can remove it and it is not on wifi open to possible hacking. This sound system is great and the graphics work good, with your apu. I have not bought a graphics card yet, although I really want one. I have been petty impressed with this board and it is worth every bit the dollar you spend on it.
372472
I own this exact model and the stock XBMC distro from xbmc.org does indeed have audio issues. If you want to run "OpenElec" distro of XBMC, I can confirm that this distro does not suffer from the audio issues the stock distro does. I have this unit, running OpenElec (latest build 3.95.4 or something), and it works fine.
651420
According to Creative, Sound Blaster PCI Express X-Fi Xtreme Audio (SB1040) may need driver update. see; http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=61105 "SB1040" is listed to support win 8.1.
1744148
Only 5.1. Might try looking at HT Omega. Much better cards, better sound and real customer support. I returned this sound blaster card because my onboard sound was superior.
867773
It has a standard PCI interface. If your board has that then it should work. It's a middle quality board. The driver is low quality but you can research the chip manufacturer and download the native driver with lower overhead but less features. You get what you pay for and this board is better than no sound, which is what I had. If you want a high quality gamer, research the different sound card chip sets and find a board with a high performance architecture.
1968066
Sorry. I cannot help on this one. The Creative Labs SB0570 sound card I bought is installed in a custom built desktop running XP. As of now, well satisfied with it. What it will do with Win &, I cannot say.
880844
Yes, but you are really wasting the potential of this card by using it with simple desktop speakers like that. This card is intended for 7.1 surround through either standard stereo jacks or optical audio/SPDIF. If your motherboard has on board sound I would simply use that. Better yet invest in a surround system Logitech Surround Sound Speakers Z506 or something similar and unlock it's full potential.
123610
Wifi no, sound card yes but onboard sound is not as good as dedicated card but still suprisingly decent.
286931
I recently purchased two different ASUS mother boards. Either one fits the description of your board. Bothboards have the main chipset with 8 channel high def audio. I am not aware of any recent boards using audioon a card; however, you can add a sound card if you prefer to any system wether it has built in audio or not.
1225755
As far as I know....the 3 channel was/is in the x58 northbridge (for Intel i-core series gen.1) coupled with the ICH10 southbridge. The 82801J1B was/is the hd audio controller in the ICH10 family...either way these are s/bridge operations. That shouldn't effect the ram (goes through the northbridge). What kind of motherboard did you have this problem with? As for the quad mem. channels.....I don't know of anyone, myself included, that has had a single problem with it. This board's drivers ....how to word this.....allow the ram and northbridge to be seen by the quad mem. channel controller in the CPU....and then post this as viable buses in windows. Windows doesn't really know it is quad channel, but sees all of the ram. There are kinda OSI things going on there. The physical layer doesn't really need to know what the software layer is doing....and vice versa. One of the Win7 Kernel's jobs is to put out layers of opacity to make moving up and down the OSI? simpler for both the hardware and the software. So in a nut shell, Win7 supports it, and if you are purchasing 2011 socket hardware....then that will support it. If it doesn't then it's either a bad component or user error.
233212
i would suggest getting a third party driver (UNi Xonar Drivers 1.72) from http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/ as asus no longer supports this soundcard
2116252
All motherboards are that support x64bit architecture support all current and new versions of Windows. This one of course, included. If you are new to computer building, I would advise against this one as it's just too expensive for features you would never use. Newer motherboards are cheaper and offer way more up to date features that you wouldn't need to play with.This board came out many years ago and they no longer support/make this either. So prices are just unreasonably high.
737390
I have mine installed in PCIe x4 slots on an Asus server bd running ESXi 5.1 They certainly work with VMware, no drivers needed. What slot did you install? I never heard of an x12 slot. What motherboard? They should be immediately recognized. Did you check the configuration/network adapters tab of the host?
286932
It has on-board audio,which is actually better than a separate sound card. Separate cards tend to generate more interference.