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5.1 channel, 192kHz/24-bit Hi-Res audio with a 300ohm headphone amp for detailed, immersive sound with punchy, defined bass
Realtek ALC1220X codec delivers a crystal clear 116dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
ASUS Hyper Grounding Technology ensures minimal audio distortion and interference
Xonar Audio Center enables full audio control via an intuitive, spacious interface
Included Low Profile Bracket allows the Xonar to fit perfectly into most systems

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4.4

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4.4

Sound quality

4.1

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4.0

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ASUS XONAR SE 5.1 Channel 192kHz/24-bit Hi-Res 116dB SNR PCIe Gaming Sound Card with Windows 10 Compatibility

Features:

192kHz/24-bit, 5.1-channel playback and 300ohm headphone amp for enhanced bass and clear, detailed sound
Hi-fidelity, immersive sound with a 116dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
Xonar Audio Center software provides a user-friendly experience via an inviting and intuitive interface
Exclusive Hyper Grounding Technology ensures effective noise-blocking, and reduced audio distortion and cross-over interference

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Xonar SE is a PCIe gaming sound card built with high-quality components to satisfy gamers who demand exceptional sound for the best gaming and multimedia experiences. Xonar SE delivers 5.1-channel, 192kHz/24-bit hi-res audio output with a high 116dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and comes with a built-in 300ohm headphone amplifier that provides rich, detailed sound and defined bass.

Take complete control with Xonar Audio Center:

Xonar SE features the Xonar Audio Center software suite for full control over every aspect of sound, from equalization (EQ) to 5.1-speaker level-balancing, and provides a user-friendly experience via an inviting and intuitive interface.

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The ASUS Xonar SE delivers 5.1-channel, 192kHz/24-bit Hi-Res audio with a 116dB signal-to-noise ratio and built-in 300ohm headphone amplifier providing rich, immersive sound with punchy, defined bass. Connect front panel audio to the onboard header for easy access. Exclusive Hyper Grounding technology ensures signal insulation to reduce distortion and interference.

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Product Dimensions

9.29 x 2.36 x 6.54 inches

Item Weight

9.6 ounces

Manufacturer

ASUS Computer International Direct

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B07HCX1NY9

Country of Origin

China

Item model number

XONAR SE

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Jared Daniel

Good cheap card, bad software

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2022

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The Xonar Audio Center is so bad I almost returned the card. Every time my computer went to sleep or shut down it would reset the output device to the back panel and I would have to manually change it to the front panel every time. There's no way to set a default. After pulling my hair out for a few days I uninstalled it and now it's sticking with the FP which is nice. What's not nice is that now if I want to change my sound card output or input settings I'll have to reinstall it and uninstall it when I'm done.

In terms of hardware this is exactly what I needed. No frills, just something to replace my faulty onboard audio.

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Dusko

Impresive low noise!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 27, 2020

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XONAR SE 5.1 PCIe

So far so good. I didn't have any issues installing it in Windows 10.
This is what I did BEFORE installing the card in my PC:

1. Log into Windows and uninstall Sound Card drivers from Device Manager.
2. Turn off PC and go into the BIOS, disable integrated sound. (Save and exit BIOS)
3. Turn off PC and install the card.
4. Log into Windows, download newest drivers from ASUS and install them. (I didn't touch the CD that comes with it).
5. Reboot, that's it.

As a previous reviewer mentioned, it seems that there's a USB chip in it, actually, if I hold the mouse pointer on the speakers icon from the taskbar, it says "Speakers (USB)". Now, I don't know for a fact if that slows down the PCIe functionality to a USB speed. If so, that's really bad, misleading and wrong. No idea, but it seems to work fine, anyway, that's not an excuse if they're not supposed to use a USB chip on a PCIe device!

Sound:
I have a small Fifine 4 channel stereo mixer where I connect a bunch of audio equipment (including the line out from the card), all that is connected to my old but good powered Altec Lansing speakers. Turned the volume all the way up from the computer, mixer and speakers and couldn't hear any static noises, hiss, hums, nothing! Very impressed! Actually I put my ears to the speakers and couldn't hear a thing!! Be careful if you try that, a sound notification from Windows can give you a very unpleasant surprise, also, that will not be healthy for your audio equipment.

The sound seems pretty flat (which is a very good thing). If I need some EQ, I'll do it myself! BTW, the EQ, FX, ambience or whatever you want to call them, are all turned off by default, another very good thing.
I tested it with a few YouTube videos and a couple of audio files in Audacity, haven't tested a mic, or any advanced audio stuff. It seems to do what is supposed to, haven't noticed any lag. I'm not into surround sound so that's that. The front panel port works as expected. I'll update when I do some other tests.

As per Windows Sound settings, the SPDIF out only does 2 stereo channels up to 24bit 192KHz. So it will NOT output digital 5.1 surround, you will have to use the analog audio connections for that. Anyway, found this in Wikipedia: "S/PDIF can carry two channels of uncompressed PCM audio or compressed 5.1/7.1 surround sound (such as DTS audio codec)". So, I don't care if it doesn't output SPDIF 5.1 compressed sound, but, that's me.

User Interface (UI) seems fine to me, nice, simple, clean and straight forward.

Hope this helps!

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Good basic sound card

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2022

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I had a problem with my Asus Tuff 570 where the onboard sound wasn't working. After nearly two weeks of troubleshooting via suggestions from Asus' forums, hunting down all kinds of drivers and riding that merry-go-round of installing/wiping/testing I was about to yank the mobo out and send it back. After looking at all the hoops I'd have to jump through to do so, I figured I'd try buying a basic sound card to fix my issue.

At $40, the issue was resolved for less than the price of shipping and hassle of no pc for 2-4 weeks.
The card produces pretty good on my 2.1 system, and while I own good speakers, they're definitely not audiophile level performance. I can say that my speakers sounded better with the soundcard, than using the onboard realtek sound from my previous build. Bass was good, mid and high range were clearer without a tininess I used to deal with using the onboard.

Installation was about as easy as it could possibly get. I literally just plugged it in, turned on the PC and Windows knew immediately what was going on, I didn't even have to install the drivers I downloaded. I did a wipe/reinstall anyway, as the downloaded version was newer however I didn't notice any difference in capabilities. Prior to purchase, I had read several of the 2/3 star reviews and was braced for potential problems with Windows, but I personally didn't run into any of the issues mentioned. It *might* be because my board is a Asus board, but I can't say with any confidence.

Sadly, I did notice a drop in quality when I retrieved my 5.1 speakers from storage and wanted to see what they sound like. The 5.1 are pretty good quality, better than my 2.1, but I wanted less clutter on my desktop hence I went to 2.1. Anyway, the sound suffered a bit with the 5.1, while the bass was even better than before, the mid and high range were a less so. I was watching the Witcher series, and there is a lot of screeching in various scenes, it quickly proved too shrill and unpleasant through those speakers. When I ran some music through the 5.1, I noticed violins sounded very off and again, a bit shrill. Plugged the 2.1 back in and that wasn't the case.

All in all, for what I needed a soundcard for, and at this price, it's a solid 3. If this goes out on me, I won't feel cheated and I didn't have any aggravations installing it unlike others have. Lets hope my luck holds.

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works with win 10

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2022

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i bought the creative audigy after i had an accidental static discharge that killed my onboard sound. i spent 4 days cleaning drivers and reinstalling drivers to get the audigy to work, couldnt get it to work with windows 10. i bought the asus to replace the creative audigy, put the asus sound card in, turned on my computer and it just worked with out me having to do anything, not even a driver install. so yay to this asus sound card for windows 10. if you need an affordable sound card for windows 10 this works great.

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Captain Kurt

Optical output.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2022

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I bought this to step up the sound quality coming out of the computer to my Yamaha sound system. It does that nicely and the Yamaha does the decoding. The issue I have is the software doesn't stay on optical output. When the computer starts or even sleeps it reverts to analog output. I have to continuously open Xonar and switch it back. That's a pain.

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Joe Phillips

Best cheap upgrade I have made to date!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 19, 2022

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Added to an HP Prodesk that is about 5 years old. The sound before was usable, but not that good. I added a better pair of speakers, but still not that great. Popped this card in, and then had to reboot after downloading and installing the driver. After that, I started up the same thing I had been watching, and I was amazed at the difference in sound quality.

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MR DAVID SHEPHERD

Bad drivers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 12, 2021

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Installed latest drivers for Windows 10. After a bit, the SPDIF output stops and requires a hard reboot to get sound back. The little remaining faith I had in internal sound cards has now disappeared completely. Buy a USB sound card and save yourself the trouble.

Mr. Tom Appleford

Functional and well made

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 15, 2021

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Functional and well made, recommended *****

Andrei

Only stereo comes out of the SPDIF optical

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 13, 2021

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They advertise this card as 5.1. and I purchased this card to connect my PC to the 5.1 receiver using optical cable. They didn't mention that 5.1 sound would only come out of analog (3.5mm) jacks. Only stereo goes into the Toslink SPDIF output. After a few days back and forth messaging with ASUS they confirmed just that. You can only find this 'stereo only via SPDIF' if you go deep into customer reviews.

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slavaukraine

Most don't understand how SPDIF works

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 17, 2022

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S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is an audio transfer format interface. It transfers digital audio signals from one device to another without the need to first convert to an analog signal

Stop leaving negative comments just because you have limited understanding, SPDIF passes through the sound signal the way it is, and it's up to your AV to figure it out and what to do with it, if its 5.1, 7.1, or whatever
This is not a converter, if you need such then install ffdshow with ac3 filter on your pc first and make it convert to proper signal before passing it through to your AV, or just use analog output

what is this world coming to...

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Sean R.

gives nice FPS boost by freeing up CPU cycles. makes things sound better too

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 12, 2020

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i got this for my gaming PC. i remembered what a difference a cheap sound card can make from my old gaming PC so i picked this up. the advantage is that the onboard sound youre probably using is eating up CPU cycles to process the sound. this is a processor for the sound so your main CPU doesnt have to fuss with it, like your discrete GPU. all i did was plug in this card, install drivers from site. then i ran CSGO benchmark map and 3DMark. i got a +45 FPS boost in CSGO and an extra 100 pts in 3DMark. the FPS boost probably wont be as much in more graphic intensive games, but it proves that there is a gaming performance boost. if you have a lower powered CPU a sound card is a good way to get more gaming juice out of it.

also, it makes things sound better too! how much better depends on what you were using before but for the price you cant go wrong with the gaming boost alone, so even i minor sound improvement is all bonus. i recommend discrete sound cards and NICs to everyone who wants a cheap hardware boost to their gaming rig.

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