Having a Killer E2100 NIC has some benefits. You get every ounce quality from high end audio playback. My favorite DJ RKade mixed music really sounds sweet on this setup. It doesn’t matter that it’s only giving you high end stereo, it sounds great even without the 5.1 surround. However, the Thunderbolt card sounds fantastic at all times whether in game or not. It makes my not so elite speakers/headsets sound good and the higher end Klipsch speakers and Sennheiser headset sound amazing. What you can’t hear is the audio level and clarity that comes from the front panel amplifiers. The scores between the X-Fi are extremely close. Since this year has been the rise of the gamer motherboards, these are the test results for the most prominent integrated and bundled audio processors. As a double check, we use a pair of high quality Seinnheiser PC370 headphones to help us confirm our results as well as allow us to detect any noise that is distracting to the human ear. Using the latest drivers, RMAA is pretty reliable when detecting poorly integrated audio solutions. The objective here is to compare the motherboard’s audio performance bit more objectively than with the human ear.
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