Dolby Home Theater Technologies & Richest Gaming Audio Effects for best PC audio upgrade
- 35 times clearer then on-board audio
- Supports latest DS3D GX2.0 for gaming on Vista & XP
- Dolby home theater technologies
- Low-profile bracket bundled
- S/pdif connect to vga cards for hdmi output Dolby Home Theater Technologies & Richest Gaming Audio Effects for best PC audio upgrade Complete Dolby Home Theater technologies Inheriting from DX & D2X, Xonar D1 also provides complete valuable Dolby Home Theater technologies for games & all home entertainments: Dolby Digital Live: Real-time 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound encoders Dolby Pro-Logic IIx: Converts stereo or 5.1 sounds to seamless 7.1 surround soundfield Dolby Headphone: Delivers a realistic & spacious 2-to-5.1 surround or 3D positional soundfield over any set of stereo headphones Dolby Virtual Speaker: Simulates a highly realistic 5.1-speaker surround sound listening environment from as few as two speakers Supports latest DS3D GX 2.0 for gaming on Vista & XP DS3D GX 2.0 not only revives EAX & Direct Sound effects in games on Windows Vista as GX 1.0, but also incorporates Dolby Home Theater Technologies (Dolby Virtual Speaker, Dolby Headphone, Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Prologic IIX) to provide best gaming audio experience. Innovative Vocal FX makes gaming & online chat more lively & attractive Vocal FX is an innovative voice processing technology to let your voice get into the realistic game landscape (Voice EX) or to emulate the background scenes in online chat (Chat EX). It also means that you can change your voice pitch to disguise who you are (Magic Voice). These features dramatically increase the fun for voice communication on PC. Delivers about 35 times cleaner audio quality (116d B SNR) than most motherboard audio (85d B SNR) The noise on Xonar D1 audio card is only 1/35 (2.8%) of the noise level from most motherboard onboard audio. In addition, Xonar D1 also produces as little as 1/32 (-105d B) of the total harmonics distortion from motherboard audio does (-75d B). Package Contents Xonar D1 7.1 Channel PCI Audio Card Driver CD (including RMAA V6.0.6 utilities) Low-profile bracket S/PDIF TOSLINK optical adaptors *1 Quick Start Guide Driver CD (including RMAA V6.0.6 utilities) System Requirements One PCI slot for the audio card Microsoft Windows Vista (32/64bit)/XP (32/64bit)/MCE2005 Intel Pentium 4 1.4 G Hz or AMD Athlon 1400 CPU or faster CPU >256 MB DRAM system memory >60 MB available HDD space for driver installation package CD-ROM drive (or DVD-ROM drive) for software installation High-quality headphones, powered analog speakers, or a Dolby Digital or DTS decoder, to enjoy the ultra-high fidelity sounds of the card