Creative Soundblaster X-Fi

Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Digital Audio Processor (20K2)

Audio matters to the Guru3D audience, and we are not saying that Realtek is bad or anything, its just that it can be so much better. Gigabyte has fitted the G1.Sniper 2 motherboard with Creative's SoundBlaster Digital Audio Processor (20K2) onboard with X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity and EAX Advanced HD 5.0 technologies, allowing you to experience sound in your gaming world exactly as you would in real life.

Check that out, no more HD codecs, finally a manufacturer that has the balls to go a little more extreme. That's a 20k2 Creative Labs Audio processor, the X-Fi, the memory next to it even indicates some extra memory for the DAP.

You pretty much have a fully fledged soundcard on-board with access to the entire Creative Labs audio software suite, and that is just great.

You will get the full software suite and Creative control panels as you are used to. Above the installer.

So that's the full X-Fi featureset plus control panel, EAX, Crystalizer, equalizer and so on. I know that not everybody is a big fan of Creative Labs audio, but I'd prefer this solution of Realtek's anytime.