Very nice post, a lot of good stuff. As far as the Screech of Death, have to say that it's been at least 4 months since I've experienced it, and have been using Asus's current drivers, not UNI Xonar's (Uni was screeching too, so I went back to the stock driver). Will try your registry hacks if...

Well, got my AIM SC808 card in a couple of weeks ago. While the hardware might be close to the equal of the STXii, I think the card is notably inferior in the area of the software interface. You just don't have the configuration options and overall control with the Cmedia Xear Audio Center that...

I Decided to order an AIM SC808 card based on fufula's advice. VERY few US sellers at this point, ordered it from Japan on Ebay. Even the re-branded PowerColor Devil HDX 7.1 isn't that easy to find. One of the things I really like about this card is that the daughterboard/ card combo was to...

Have noticed something else to add to the loud white noise issue. I thought at first the noise issue was confined to my headphones attached to the STX ii sound card. However, the issue randomly surfaces when I use my Asus VK278 monitor coupled with the AMD HiDef audio device as the default...