today we're going to be having a look at the x- Raider 7.1 from azente this is
one of their lower end cards but it does still have some key features first of
all you've got support for 7.1 audio so
that means you can hook it up to basically any audio system that you can
get your hands on for a PC I don't know that there are too many people running
you know 9.1 or 7.2 audio systems on
their computers but I mean hey if you're doing that then feel free to uh drop as
a comment on the video and you know let me know hey lonus you're off your rocker
you have no idea what you're talking about I'm running that so this is a PCI
sound card as I mentioned before you got support for 7.1 audio but there's also
some other cool stuff first of all you've got support for optical input and
output which is something that it has over its uh little
brother the X Studio
5.1 and you've also got swappable opamp
sockets for all
um all eight channels so that's a pretty
cool feature as well we'll have a closer look at the card in just a minute I just want to have a look at the accessory
package so they've got an easy setup guide uh shows you how to install your
drivers and um yeah hey look at that
they've even got instructions for downloading the drivers off the azente
website good work azente that is the correct thing to
do what else do we have in here we have a driver CD okay so you probably won't
need that because you can download the drivers off the manufacturer website so
that's it that's the whole accessory package other than that we've just got a
card now aen tech cards as I mentioned
in my last unboxing of an azen card are generally speaking uh the best purchased
choice to make uh in your price range whatever your price range happens to be
so figure out your price range how much do you want to spend on a sound card and
if you just buy an azente card for however much that is then you'll probably get pretty much the best card
for your dollar so here we are we've got internal
digital audio out this is running off of
the oh can't see that huh what chipset is that let me
have a look well apparently it's using an X Gear 3 audio engine okay whatever
that means and we're actually running a
c media CMI 8768 audio processor I think
it's just labeled a little bit differently oh no it's not never mind I was just uh apparently I went crazy for
a minut I couldn't see the I couldn't see that right there okay never mind I
figured it out so here's all your swappable op-amp sockets you can go
ahead take those out these will basic I mean amplification is what gives you
most of the Distortion in your audio so if you replace them with a higher
quality op amp or if you replace them with one that just sounds a little bit
better to you you can actually get a very customizable sound out of a fairly
inexpensive card with that particular feature so that's pretty cool you've
also got support for front panel audio so there's no custom headers or anything
like that you just hook that right up to your front panel HD audio so here we are
here is our digital uh Optical in and out and then our 7.1 interface so thank
you for checking out my unboxing of the x- raater 7.1 PCI sound
card oh yeah oh never mind hold on apparently it has some unique karaoke
functionality cool you can add color with mic Echo key shifting and vocal
cancellation that's a pretty neat software feature don't forget to
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