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I had already brought my Sound Blaster before I got my X-Hero and it made sense to reuse it. I couldn't say how it compares to the X-Hero Realtek without hearing it. I would imagine the Sound Blaster has better specs and you kind of expect that from a dedicated sound card.
You don't want to hear the sound on my notebook...
I think the only advantage of a sound card would be, if something on your system was causing interference with either the Realtek CODEC, or the built in DAC(on the Max X boards it's a ESS® Sabre ES9023P), or the RC4580 Dual Audio Operational Amplifier.
I was getting some serious noice when I used some Bitfenix LEDs once, and it took a while to find out that was the cause and not ROG's Supreme FX system.
https://icr-am.asus.com/webchat/icr....tenantId=EN-USHave other ASUS devices been affected by the malware attack?
No, only the version of Live Update used for notebooks has been affected. All other devices remain unaffected.
A few updates today:
(actually they are all older drivers, but these are the ones that showed up today):
Realtek Audio Driver
V8468_WHQL_20180621_DTSCustom1.06_DTSHPX1.73_SonicSuite3.6.42_FF03_RS4
LAN Intel
Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Driver V23.2(Universal)
Intel Chipset Driver
Support Intel platform.
V10.1.17809.8096_RS5