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I’m using +9 dB for the Sennheiser’s 54 Ω impedance. Clicking the hammer icon shows three bombastically named choices that simply boost output by +0/+9/+16 dB. “Headphone” indicates the actual physical output device.
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The driver virtualizes all channels to my output device while Windows thinks it’s using 7.1 speakers.
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(Creative’s drivers resemble a slime mold in how they spread across the file system, and they are never fully removed by Creative’s uninstaller either. Reassuringly, Asus’ Windows 8 drivers work well, keep their settings between reboots, and even have a compact installation footprint. I decided to try the cheap and tiny Xonar DGX whose powerful amplifier with Dolby Headphone support were just what I needed. Pickings are slim with most people relying on integrated audio these days, but in recent years Asus had released a number of discrete sound cards to good reviews. Time to look for another sound card maker. But that also disabled “Fast Boot”… and since Creative’s drivers evidently don’t save any settings to disk (or else don’t load them), they were lost on every restart. On my desktop system with its 256 GB SSD drive, I care much more about the hibernation file’s 6 GB than shaving a few seconds off my daily boot time, so I disabled hibernation ( powercfg /h off). Any settings.Īnecdotally, this doesn’t seem to happen when the computer merely hibernates – and sure enough, the new Windows 8 feature “Fast Boot,” enabled by default, relies on hibernating the kernel session. Of course that couldn’t last, and Creative’s Windows 8 drivers are once again defective: they don’t save settings between reboots. On Windows 7, I had been using an ancient Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeMusic (it’s really spelled like that, sorry) which produced great sound and even had working drivers. Nor does the driver support virtual surround sound, which I consider a must-have for headphones. There’s no noise and the output may be strong enough for low-end headphones, but I had to crank up the volume to get any decent loudness from my Sennheiser HD 380 Pro, and even then the sound was flat and indistinct.
Unfortunately, despite its impressive-sounding specifications, this cheap integrated solution just plain doesn’t sound very good.
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The MSI X58 Pro-E comes with an integrated Realtek ALC889 audio codec, and Windows 8 provides full driver support out of the box.
Intel’s Chipset Device Software has already been updated for Windows 8 and replaces a few system files, although I couldn’t tell any difference. My AMD HD 6970 graphics card works nicely with AMD’s Windows 8 drivers, too.
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Every operating system upgrade involves the popular guessing game, “I wonder which drivers will break this time?” I’m happy to report that my MSI X58 Pro-E motherboard is generally well-supported by Microsoft’s built-in drivers.