EtherealJoe
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For those of you that have the Crosshair IV Formula and are thinking of using a Creative Sound Card
TAKE NOTE ! Turns out that if you ever install the X-Fi codecs that come on the installation disk with the Crosshair IV Formula motherboard, you will need to do an entire reformat of your hard drive and O/S that contains the drivers for your system before installing the sound card.. Ugh, what a pain in the "You Know What !". After resorting to Advanced System Optimizer 3 to make use of the un-install utility, I noticed that there was a registry entry pertaining to the on-board X-Fi sound "card" that could NOT be removed. No utility I found or used would un-install or remove it. Driver Sweeper didn't even find it. After performing a hard drive re-format, and re-installing my O/S; I am happy to report that it is working just fine. Well in truth...I only thought the card sounded good before! The difference is remarkable. The quality of sound I am experiencing now is the richest, and fullest I have ever heard. It's definitely a card worth purchasing even if you have to do a little work, to get it to work.
P.S. When re-installing your Motherboard utilities, DO NOT install the VIA Audio codecs either. I noticed on Via's site that they recommend that you avoid installing their codecs if a third party sound card is to be used...Good to know.
TAKE NOTE ! Turns out that if you ever install the X-Fi codecs that come on the installation disk with the Crosshair IV Formula motherboard, you will need to do an entire reformat of your hard drive and O/S that contains the drivers for your system before installing the sound card.. Ugh, what a pain in the "You Know What !". After resorting to Advanced System Optimizer 3 to make use of the un-install utility, I noticed that there was a registry entry pertaining to the on-board X-Fi sound "card" that could NOT be removed. No utility I found or used would un-install or remove it. Driver Sweeper didn't even find it. After performing a hard drive re-format, and re-installing my O/S; I am happy to report that it is working just fine. Well in truth...I only thought the card sounded good before! The difference is remarkable. The quality of sound I am experiencing now is the richest, and fullest I have ever heard. It's definitely a card worth purchasing even if you have to do a little work, to get it to work.
P.S. When re-installing your Motherboard utilities, DO NOT install the VIA Audio codecs either. I noticed on Via's site that they recommend that you avoid installing their codecs if a third party sound card is to be used...Good to know.
My Computer
At a glance
windows 7 Pro 64 bitAMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4G...G.SKILL Ripjaws Series(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 ...XFX ATI 5870 (reference)
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- self-made
- OS
- windows 7 Pro 64 bit
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 125 Watt
- Motherboard
- ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
- Memory
- G.SKILL Ripjaws Series(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX ATI 5870 (reference)
- Sound Card
- ASUS Xonar Essence ST 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Audio Card
- Monitor(s) Displays
- ASUS VW246H 24" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- 1x WD 160 G
2x Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
- PSU
- XFX Black Edition P1-750B-CAG9 750W ATX12V v2.2 / ESP12V
- Case
- Smilodon Raidmax
- Cooling
- Koolance (CPU,NB,SB,Mosfet,Graphics card)
- Keyboard
- Saitek Cyborg
- Mouse
- Cyborg Rat 7
- Internet Speed
- 50 MB
- Other Info
- Killer 2100 Network Interface Card
