Shock: PowerColor Makes A Sound Card, And It Sounds Good

As soon as we walked into PowerColor’s gross sales area at Computex 2015, the company immediately dismissed its lineup of graphics taking part in playing cards, whatever the GTX 980 Ti having merely launched. Instead, the advisor drew our consideration to a model new product, of a form that it had in no way made sooner than: a sound card. It is known as the PowerColor Devil HDX Sound Card and goes by the half amount SCM888-DHDX.

The sound card is pushed by a Cmedia CM8888 audio processor, which is linked to a Wolfson WM8741 Digital-to-Analog converter. This DAC is then wired to a headphone amplifier that is capable of driving headphones with impedance of as a lot as 600 Ohm. The frequency response ranges from 20 Hz by 20,000 KHz, and the signal-to-noise ratio is 124 dB on the RCA (Tulip) out and 120 dB on the 6.3 mm jack. It is a little bit lower on the jack on account of the signal goes by the headphone amplifier, whereas it would not obtain this for the RCA ports. The OP-Amps are swappable.

For outputs, the cardboard has the 6.3 mm jack, RCA ports, coaxial port and an optical output on the mainboard. The cardboard comes with a daughterboard, which is mounted in a separate enlargement slot and gives 7.1 analog connectivity with 4 3.5 mm jacks and a microphone enter — all-in-all, a complete set of I/O connectors. The cardboard interfaces collectively along with your PC by a PCI-Particular 1x connection.

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