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Diamond MX400 Monster Sound PCI 3D Audio Card

Diamond MX400 Monster Sound PCI 3D Audio Card

List Price: $79.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very good
Review: Excelent sound card that works with everything. Very good sound in f.eks. 3d games.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great sound!
Review: I bought the Monster sound card to improve the sound effects for my MP3 files and my video games. Wow! What a difference from my cheap factory-installed previous sound card. Diamond Monster has superb sound quality, you can hear every instrument, the bass and treble, and even sound effects in games are sharper. I highly recommend buying this card for people who are serious about their MP3 music sound file quality and gamers.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Decent sound card
Review: I think this card is OK. I really like the MX300 more. I would have kept my MX300, but I could not get it to work with my Asus A7V.

The sound quality of the MX400 with CD's, MP3's and DVD's are great. Games are ok. Aureal 2.0 chipset is better then the one on this card and EAX.

When I play Vampire, I have to turn off the 3D sound hardware to get sound that is not muddy. But when I do that, I do not get any sound effects.

Recomendation: Buy a sound card with a Aureal chipset. If you want 100% compatiablitiy get a Creative Labs Live!. Stay away from this card, if not it is a good card for the price.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very good
Review: If you want to waste your money, buy this card. If you're a gamer who prefers choppy over smooth sounds, buy this card. If you capture and love tinny, static-laden over rich sounds, buy this card.

Diamond doesn't update its drivers like it should. This card still does NOT support DirectX (at least that's what dxdiag tells me).

In my experience, Creative Labs is a much superior sound card manufacturer. Diamond may do video, but it definately does not do audio!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Monster of a Headache
Review: If you want to waste your money, buy this card. If you're a gamer who prefers choppy over smooth sounds, buy this card. If you capture and love tinny, static-laden over rich sounds, buy this card.

Diamond doesn't update its drivers like it should. This card still does NOT support DirectX (at least that's what dxdiag tells me).

In my experience, Creative Labs is a much superior sound card manufacturer. Diamond may do video, but it definately does not do audio!!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: I HATE DIAMOND
Review: Never will a buy another Diamond product again. This is the last one that gave up on me. I've had 3 Diamond modems, the Rio mp3 player, and the MX400 sound card. None of them lasted over a year. I built my computer in February of 2000, and I decided to use this sound card. It had pretty good sound, but I was always adjusting the volume level because it was different with each device I used, and this came to be really annoying. Last week I put in a new hard drive, and after that, the MX400 no longer worked. Windows didn't recognize it at all even when i tried disconnecting the new hard drive. I'll tired of Diamond products, and i'll never buy anything from them again!

Can you imagine that I used to think Diamond was the best.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Never EVER buy Diamond
Review: Ok.. I am a owner of the MX300.. and know people with the MX400. Diamond is KNOWN to RARELY RARELY update their dirvers.. SO MUCH, that they dont even have a driver for Win2k for the MX300 which was last years cherry sound card..

Their webpage changes all the time.. and not for the better. Just not user friendly in my honest opinion.

If you want kick a$$ sound.. for your money.. Creative Soundblaster Live! X-GAMER is the way to go.. PERIOD..

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Never EVER buy Diamond
Review: Ok.. I am a owner of the MX300.. and know people with the MX400. Diamond is KNOWN to RARELY RARELY update their dirvers.. SO MUCH, that they dont even have a driver for Win2k for the MX300 which was last years cherry sound card..

Their webpage changes all the time.. and not for the better. Just not user friendly in my honest opinion.

If you want kick a$$ sound.. for your money.. Creative Soundblaster Live! X-GAMER is the way to go.. PERIOD..

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Nothing but trouble.
Review: This card stinks. No words can describe how much fustration the lack of good drivers...[It'll take] aloot of pain to buy the half functional sound card.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: WORST! DON'T BUY
Review: This was a complete waste of money. It's now a Legacy card. Don't buy, because they are trying to get rid of a stockpile. There are no good drivers for them. (it wont work in XP now either!)


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