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today we're going to be having a look at the x- Raider 7.1 from azente this is

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one of their lower end cards but it does still have some key features first of

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all you've got support for 7.1 audio so

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that means you can hook it up to basically any audio system that you can

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get your hands on for a PC I don't know that there are too many people running

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you know 9.1 or 7.2 audio systems on

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their computers but I mean hey if you're doing that then feel free to uh drop as

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a comment on the video and you know let me know hey lonus you're off your rocker

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you have no idea what you're talking about I'm running that so this is a PCI

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sound card as I mentioned before you got support for 7.1 audio but there's also

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some other cool stuff first of all you've got support for optical input and

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output which is something that it has over its uh little

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brother the X Studio

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5.1 and you've also got swappable opamp

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sockets for all

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um all eight channels so that's a pretty

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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

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package so they've got an easy setup guide uh shows you how to install your

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drivers and um yeah hey look at that

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they've even got instructions for downloading the drivers off the azente

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website good work azente that is the correct thing to

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do what else do we have in here we have a driver CD okay so you probably won't

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need that because you can download the drivers off the manufacturer website so

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that's it that's the whole accessory package other than that we've just got a

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card now aen tech cards as I mentioned

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in my last unboxing of an azen card are generally speaking uh the best purchased

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choice to make uh in your price range whatever your price range happens to be

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so figure out your price range how much do you want to spend on a sound card and

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if you just buy an azente card for however much that is then you'll probably get pretty much the best card

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for your dollar so here we are we've got internal

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digital audio out this is running off of

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the oh can't see that huh what chipset is that let me

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have a look well apparently it's using an X Gear 3 audio engine okay whatever

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that means and we're actually running a

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c media CMI 8768 audio processor I think

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it's just labeled a little bit differently oh no it's not never mind I was just uh apparently I went crazy for

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a minut I couldn't see the I couldn't see that right there okay never mind I

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figured it out so here's all your swappable op-amp sockets you can go

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ahead take those out these will basic I mean amplification is what gives you

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most of the Distortion in your audio so if you replace them with a higher

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quality op amp or if you replace them with one that just sounds a little bit

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better to you you can actually get a very customizable sound out of a fairly

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inexpensive card with that particular feature so that's pretty cool you've

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also got support for front panel audio so there's no custom headers or anything

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like that you just hook that right up to your front panel HD audio so here we are

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here is our digital uh Optical in and out and then our 7.1 interface so thank

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you for checking out my unboxing of the x- raater 7.1 PCI sound

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card oh yeah oh never mind hold on apparently it has some unique karaoke

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functionality cool you can add color with mic Echo key shifting and vocal

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cancellation that's a pretty neat software feature don't forget to

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