 Sound card unboxings always seem to generate a fair amount of interest so today I'm going to be having a look at the x studio 5.1 from auzintek I can come right out and tell you any auzintek sound card is Probably a good choice. You just find the one in your price range and buy it and it's probably Either the or close to the best card to buy in that price range So there's a little summary on the side here of the connectivity so you can see this is either a low profile or a full Height card it supports a bunch of different outputs which we'll have a closer look at when we've actually got the card out of the box this is the x studio 5.1, which I believe I already said why don't we just like go ahead and Open up this package and start having a look at this thing we can talk about the specs on the box while we're doing that Okay as long as I can get the Wrapper undone then we'll be in good shape another thing that auzintek is A pretty unique in that they allow you another way that they're unique is that they allow you to swap the op-amp So those are the actual chips built into the sound card that do the amplification so you can swap in anything you want whereas on a lot of other brands of sound cards you would actually have to Desolder the original ones and solder on new ones they make it a lot easier for you and that basically allows you to buy different op amps and Tune it to whatever however you want the card to sound now this one only has a socket For the front for the two stereo channels so for your your front left and front right channels Although they're higher end cards actually have swappable sockets for even many of the other channels as well So here's this actually here We're not going to look at the sound card quite yet. Let's have a look at what's included in terms of accessories and cables and other stuff All right, well we've got our low profile bracket Which is all fancy and gold plated and looks very nice has a little auzint logo stamped into it Then we have a little adapter, okay, so we'll show you how that works in just a moment And then we have an empty plastic bag Oh, I guess that's what this was inside so that it would stay protected, but it fell out in shipping That's too bad there now. We've rewogged that particular aspect of this card Then we have an easy setup guide which is in a variety of different languages and tells you how to easily set up the card All right setting up sound cards fairly straightforward you plug it in you install the driver Here's the installation CD download the latest drivers off the auzintek website for best results all right So we'll have a look at the card itself now It's a fairly inexpensive card actually I believe this is one of the least expensive if not the least expensive that auzintek has ever released So it's a great opportunity for someone who's never tried an auzintek sound card to find out what all the fuss is about So you can see from this plug here we can or from the back of the card here we can plug in optical audio out And then we can plug in the audio in here and then we can plug in the audio in here Or from the back of the card here we can plug in optical audio out we have a um Shoot I believe that's a line in probably would be my guess we have a microphone and then we have our 7.1 audio out here So this is uh headphones is here This one is center this one is Front and this one is side did I say seven point or rear did I say 7.1? I meant 5.1. This is a 5.1 card. So here is the swappable op amp here So that is the amplification chip for the front Connector so that's that one so you can put in something else if you want it is socketed so you can remove it quite easily All right, let's talk a little bit more about the features that are included with this board So it has support for hd front panel audio That's something that was missing on a lot of sound cards Until auzintek came on the scene because certain sound card manufacturers wanted you to buy proprietary front panel connectors But this will hook up to the front panel of any case, which is great for a value solution like this Next we've got internal digital output via two pin connector. Okay, so that's right there And what else do we have on here? They've got a 3d surround engine driver support. So that's q sound I've actually never heard of q sound before but if anyone has this card feel free to post under the comments of the video And let us know what you think of the q sound 3d engine And that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about it Oh, apparently the mic has uh has a preamp gain of plus six decibels Which is great because I don't know about you But i've used a lot of mics and a lot of sound cards and I find that 90 percent of the time It's just not loud enough. And so they've added a little bit of a boost to it Which is uh, which is really nice if you boost it properly, you don't get that distortion And the last thing we got is oh, yeah, the audio processor being used is a via 1723 audio processor and you can see that right there So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the x studio 5.1 I know there's not a whole lot to talk about with a sound card But the point of this video is basically in this price range if this is sort of if you've never had Uh a dedicated sound card before you don't know what you're missing because onboard audio despite what? Whoever will tell you about it is just not as good as a dedicated card Even with a value solution like this, you're going to get a much more satisfying experience versus onboard So I definitely recommend picking up an awesome tech sound card if you haven't already