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The ASUS STRIX Soar packaging is of a very high standard and features a big picture of the sound card itself, as well as the Transformer-like owl mascot in the background. A big sticker also points out that with this sound card you also get a free invite code for World of Warships to use a Tachibana Destroyer alongside a 15 day premium account.
The back continues extolling features such as the back-end sound software, a “sonic radar,” that lets you visualise sound in-game and the improved clarity of ASUS STRIX audio over standard onboard soundcards.
The box flips open to reveal the sound card inside, as well as talking up more fancy named tech like “hyper-grounding technology” which helps keep the sound clear of electronic interference.
Not much of an accessory pack with this card, but you do get a driver CD, a set up manual and some warranty information. There is a nice little sticker too.
Just got the replacement through – EXACT SAME PROBLEM. Asus are total shit.
Same on windows 8.1 ! I thought my headphones where broken lol.
Does the new driver available on their site improves something??
They have driver for windows 10. Has the situation improved or you have got some other card?
I returned the card so sadly I wouldn’t know. Franky I’m going to always avoid Asus after this.
If you’re going to avoid companies after just one little oversight, you might as well quit technology altogether and go live in the woods. There are no faultless companies.
Kid, keep quiet as you don’t know what you’re on about. They do this all the time (just google it) and it took about 2 months and threatening to take them to court for them to resolve it. That isn’t a “little oversight”, that is incompetence verging on fraud.
Crosstalk is not caused from drivers, its from EMI from other hardware like a poor quality PSU or being put in-between two video cards. Putting the card in a DIFFERENT computer (as you did) just answered that. This is whats called an ‘underlying cause’. There’s very little a driver can do to stop crosstalk short of having the AMP run at a lower output voltage. Ironically the crosstalk is still there, but too low to be heard. Moving the card to a different PCIe slot furthest away from GPU’s and WIFI cards is a must.
Going to court would cost over $300 just in filing fees. If you lost you would have to pay their attorney’s fees as well which could be tens of thousands. For a $100 card?
Depends if they have an issue with dodgy fpga programming on the card or they clean up the audio with a software based filter.
Although the level of noise was so horrific it was probably just crap engineering with cheap hardware and no EMC testing.
That’s not how it works in the UK. one of the only good things we have is consumer laws. Court would be a £25 fee with all costs reimbursed after winning (and there is no chance any major company would show).
Their drivers are HORRIBLE for windows 10, I’m using asus strix raid dlx with gtx 1080 and evga platinum power supply on the other damn side of the case (I’m using Corsair Air 740 Case), and my gtx 1080 is liquid cooled so it has quite the shroud on it, and I have occasional static through headphones and sometimes my mic is staticy as all hell (unusable), and nothing I do fixes it. Before the most recent drivers this sound card resulted in crashes In my 6800k build and a friends AMD build so…… yeah….
Actually I just bypassed the link box with KINPS audio 3.5mm extensions, hopefully this helps, if it does I will update.