Diamond Xtreme Sound 7.1 DDL Sound Card

Package & Contents

Every gamer eventually gets tired of the crap that is onboard sound. I have to admit I am not an audiophile, but I can appreciate the need for at least reasonable quality. I decided to make the move to a better quality sound card. At the recommendation of those who are more into this field, I have stuck on the Diamond Xtreme Sound 7.1 with Dolby Digital Live PCI sound card.

After a couple days of shipping the card arrives:

The box arrives

The array of contents from the box

As you can see there is no frills. There is the card itself, the manual and the software disk. Let's take a look at the card itself:

7.1 analog connectors and optical connectors

The card itself

We can see the options for the 7.1 analog jacks, which will not all be used because I only have a 5.1 system ( Logitech X-540 ). There is also the optical jacks. I will use these for testing hooked up to my amp.

C-Media CMI8768+ sound chip

CD and Aux in

On the card itself you can see the connectors for aux, and cd in. You can also see the C-Media sound chip which is the C-Media CMI8768+ sound chip to be precise, and is my main reason for buying the card.

Let's take a look at the software and installation

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