Death of Iron Treatment, Epilogue

On steam, you can see the statistics of computer components of a modern gamer . Currently, December 2009.



Audio Devices:



Realtek HD Audio output (-0.31%) 40.70%

Speakers (High Definition Audio (+ 0.13%) 5.78%

Realtek AC97 Audio (-0.59%) 5.10%

SoundMAX HD Audio (-0.09%) 2.47%

Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) (+ 0.42%) 2.24%

SoundMAX Digital Audio (-0.23%) 1.68%

SB X-Fi Audio (+ 0.09%) 1.51%

C-Media Wave Device (-0.06%) 1.31%

Lautsprecher (High Definition A (+ 1.22%) 1.22%

SigmaTel Audio (-0.22%) 1.22%

Speakers (SoundMAX Integrated D (0.00%) 1.13%

HD Audio rear output (-0.03%) 1.01%

Other (+ 0.73%) 34.63%

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Sound cards that support high versions of EAX have grown by a fraction of a percent, but in general they occupy 3.98% of the total.



We can say that “sound cards from Creative are the best for games” is already a myth. Instead of X-fi, it’s better to buy a good speaker system and / or a card with a better DAC and a lower signal-to-noise ratio (ASUS Xonar D2X, for example).