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Hello

I bought a 'new to me' Maximus vii Ranger. In my last build I had a £20 sound card. I have read that the on board sound in this board is very good so I have not installed the sound card. I have installed the latest sound drivers from the Asus website. I am just a little confused as to which audio device to use and which software I should use to control/tune the sound.

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You can see that I have the standard Speakers selected as my default. Is that my best choice? Why do I not see any option relative to Asus? Why do I see all these Nvidia options.

I would really appreciate some guidance to get the best from my audio,

Many thanks
Gareth
 
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At this point its simply plug in and start tweaking settings. As long as the volume isn't to high you should be safe to experiment. Most software have a lot of different enviromental/effects settings. It'll really be up to you what you like the most.
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That is the default audio device for your analog connections which is powered off the Realtek ALC codec on your motherboard. Mind sharing your audio equipment?

If you've installed the latest drivers for your Realtek audio, you should be able to access Realtek's sound manager within Control Panel>Sound. You should also have an app for Sonic Radar but you'll find anything you need to tweak within Realtek's sound manager.
 
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If your speakers are plugged into your mobo directly via analog plug then you're all set. If your speakers have an optical/coaxial then that will give cleaner sound.

If you have a receiver/amp w/ HDMI I recommend and a nice surround sound setup then I recommend using an HDMI cable to it from your GPU(that's the NVDIA in the list). If you have an older receiver that doesn't have hdmi then use the optical/coaxial.

I also recommend going into 'properties' first and trying to set it to the highest sample rate it allows. From games to music/movies this will improve many things. After that go into 'configure' and experiment with the speaker sizes and number of channels. If it's distorted than use small, if not try large.

Usually the mobo or card will be able to tell what the limit of a amp/receiver can provide. HDMI usually maxes at 7.1-24/192 and I've mostly seen optical top at 5.1-24/96 but on a couple of occasions 2.0 24/192. If you do this leave the speaker count 2 and then make sure any media playback at spdif/direct. This allows your games to output at a mostly native stereo surround that a amp will accurately reproduce(if you choose 5.1/7.1 only games that actually produce those channels will use them while 2 channel will be locked to 2).

Oh, I almost forgot. Your Asus is probably being listed as the realtek. Realtek is the most common controller for MOBO's.
 
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Hi there

Yes I have the following: Creative Fatal1ty HS-800 Gaming Headset. Nothing too flashy.

Thanks for the advice on Control Panel and Sound. I have now found the Sonic software which is great. I just need to figure out how to optimize it.


 
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At this point its simply plug in and start tweaking settings. As long as the volume isn't to high you should be safe to experiment. Most software have a lot of different enviromental/effects settings. It'll really be up to you what you like the most.
 
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Sound perceived by a user is as subjective as art is to the beholder. You should tweak the audio to your liking and ofc to the content you're on. Take time with it and once you've designed some equalizer curve's you can save them which you can use at a later date/time while you switch between your audio content.
 
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