Does this contain its own complete sound card, and if so how do I avoid the audio coming through the crappy pc sound card?
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This product converts a digital (usb, optical, coax) signal to analog (rca) with minimal volume output. There is no headphone jack. Output should be fed to something with amplification.
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Mine is hooked up to a desktop with a discrete sound card. I "suspect" if you go into control panel>sound, just make sure you choose the right output in "playback" tab of sound in control panel. It wanted to have AMD high definition sound but I changed it to my card. You can do this and if you are not sure which is the correct one, make sure you have music playing as you try each possibility, the one that lets sound come out your speaker is the correct one. This is a windows sound configuration issue, not a monitor issue, just saying. Hope that helps, if not, if you get the results and have amazon contact me I will try to help more. This is basically what Rick, the previous person tried to say. Mine is hooked up to a desktop with a discrete sound card. I "suspect" if you go into control panel>sound, just make sure you choose the right output in "playback" tab of sound in control panel. It wanted to have AMD high definition sound but I changed it to my card. You can do this and if you are not sure which is the correct one, make sure you have music playing as you try each possibility, the one that lets sound come out your speaker is the correct one. This is a windows sound configuration issue, not a monitor issue, just saying. Hope that helps, if not, if you... » Read More Mine is hooked up to a desktop with a discrete sound card. I "suspect" if you go into control panel>sound, just make sure you choose the right output in "playback" tab of sound in control panel. It wanted to have AMD high definition sound but I changed it to my card. You can do this and if you are not sure which is the correct one, make sure you have music playing as you try each possibility, the one that lets sound come out your speaker is the correct one. This is a windows sound configuration issue, not a monitor issue, just saying. Hope that helps, if not, if you get the results and have amazon contact me I will try to help more. This is basically what Rick, the previous person tried to say. « Show Less
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i'm running ubuntu and it works perfectly... nothing special needed to work... you may need to go to sound settings to make sure it's your default audio output.
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Not that I know of, it should have been correct from the beginning, if your sound card was wrong, this has nothing to do with that card this unit is USB, it was correct on my machine after I installed it so *I assume* it would be correct on yours. Not knowing what your original problem was I am only making an assumption.
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mine did not come with any, but there are ports in back to add your own audio devise.
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http://drivers.downloadatoz.com/vendor_creative_type_sound-card/995,creative-sound-blaster-audigy-drivers-v5-12-2-252-windows-xp/ requires PCI slot. Possibly winxp will also find the drivers as soon as y'all install the card.
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Yes It does. But I just setup my PC last night and didn't plug it in. I've heard it's not that good. We'll see. Update: I used the subwoofer for a few days and it's not any good. In fact, I removed it and plugged back in my logitech 2.1 speaker system and the PC came alive.
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Nope, as long as you get the XTD version, it comes with an external sound card. I highly recommend this headset if you have the dough for it. It's super comfy and sounds insane.
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I've used my RIG headset without a discrete soundcard on my pc. Its my understanding that USB headphones (all of them) have a built in soundcard and RIG is usb. Also I had an issue where the mic would pick up environmental noises and project them through the earpieces and upon researching a solution to this I was told that the built in sound card makes this happen and that you can't change any of the settings on it.
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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
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The driver package includes the HDMI Audio drivers. You need to set that up in the Control Panel > Sound; as the default device.
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I dont know. but this usually sounds better than the computer on board sound on old computers. But I am using the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI Express Sound Card and it is awesome sounding get that one like that if you want a good one.
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The card does support sound via the hdmi cable. I had to open my playback devices and set the default to 50 PCT3D-OE-3 NVIDIA HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO DEFAULT DEVICE
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I have an older HP Pavilion laptop that doesn't "see" my onboard soundcard. The USB external soundcard is a soundcard itself, so it replaces the onboard card. It works great on my laptop - simply plug it in and attach headphones or external powered speakers. It won't make the laptop speakers work, so you have to have separate speakers or headphones/earbuds. I don't your PC, but it worked great for me.
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I don't think so. The audio jacks (both front and back) that came with the computer are hard wired to the motherboard and once you enable the sound card, those are disabled. I bought the card my built in sound card failed. I was hoping the new card supported EQ function but it does not thus the audio/music sound like crap. I eventually swapped computers with my wife and gave her the Creative card as she can't hear the difference. I was disappointed the this card performance.
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Yes it does pass audio. You just have to make sure that it's selected in your playback options in sounds. Now it will just pass motherboard audio. It's not going to pass audio from your Soundblaster card if you have one installed. Actually come to think of it, I think the card has it's own audio device built in. Because the audio shows up as AMD audio when you check the playback options.
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Sorry.Shouldn't need a sound card. Depending on your system config. What OS are you running?