HDA X-Mystique 7.1

[mdahc]

So is anyone going to pick up one of these? If you go to BlueGears' site, you see links to vendors who are already selling them. Has anyone ever bought anything from BlueBonePC, FrozenCPU, PCAlchemy, or CyberOutlet/ioCombo.com?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: mdahc
So is anyone going to pick up one of these? If you go to BlueGears' site, you see links to vendors who are already selling them. Has anyone ever bought anything from BlueBonePC, FrozenCPU, PCAlchemy, or CyberOutlet/ioCombo.com?

Whoa, these are available in the US already? I just wrote in a thread this morning that I was waiting for these to become available.

I've read some great reviews of it at AVSforum.

EDIT: I had heard of FrozenCPU before so I checked them out. Very nice reseller ratings

PCAlchemy has a perfect 10... but less reviews.

 

[Raduque]

I just found my next pair of coundcards.

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: Raduque
I just found my next pair of coundcards.

werd!

 

[Heckler 5th]

just a heads up, mine should arrive tomorrow from the egg. my extigy is waiting too.

i'll come back for my 2 cents :thumbsup::thumbsdown:

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Mine is working quite well.

The original drivers that were available when I got it a couple weeks ago were quite buggy. The latest ones here worked very well for me.

 

[Heckler 5th]

cool, thank you!

 

[StormRider]

Hmmm, I noticed that Best Buy is selling a 7.1 Dolby Digital Soundcard by Dynex for $99. When I looked at the box, I couldn't tell what chip it uses (it had letters that looked like CMIxxx) but it looks very similar to that chip in the nvNews link.

They are also selling a 5.1 soundcard from Dynex for $29 that uses the Via chipset.

 

[Heckler 5th]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

The original drivers that were available when I got it a couple weeks ago were quite buggy. The latest ones here worked very well for me.

the download link on that site is timing out for me at the moment. :|

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Heckler 5th

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

The original drivers that were available when I got it a couple weeks ago were quite buggy. The latest ones here worked very well for me.

the download link on that site is timing out for me at the moment. :|

It's working for me right now, and I sent you a reply PM.

 

[Heckler 5th]

i've had the card only for one night now and the only trouble i had with it is getting my microphone to work in ventrilo while using the optical out. i finally was able to get it so that others can hear me but they say i transmit lots of static when i talk and sometimes others can barely hear me. i have all the mic volume settings i can find maxed out. the software that comes with this card has lots of settings and environments you can use. some of them i had to turn off for my mic to transmit acceptably- most notably all the voice/echo/karoake effects.

but the sound is great! i thought i would be able to select "hardware" audio renderer in BF2 but that is not the case. i had to set it back to "software" and "medium quality" in the game for the audio not to skip and studder. little puzzled about that but now everything is good. hopefully, the drivers will continue to improve.

my 2 cents so far!

 

[FlipFlopHHJ]

Battlefield 2 only supports OpenAL as hardware audio afaik .. which currently means Creative Labs only..

 

[yacoub]

Out of Stock at NewEgg... hopefully back in stock soon!

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: yacoub
Out of Stock at NewEgg... hopefully back in stock soon!

39 in stock right now

 

[Boobers]

Their tech support refuses to answer any emails...I would RUN (not walk) away from this card...

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Boobers
Their tech support refuses to answer any emails...I would RUN (not walk) away from this card...

I actually sent their tech support a question yesterday afternoon and they replied this morning.

What did you ask them?

Did you e-mail "sales@bluegears.com" ?

 

[Arcanedeath]

This is an excellent card and it's pretty much the only game in town if you want DD encoding on the fly and you dont' have Soundstorm anymore.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
This is an excellent card and it's pretty much the only game in town if you want DD encoding on the fly and you dont' have Soundstorm anymore.

montego

 

[Zap Brannigan]

How well does this card play music? Say compared to the M-Audio Revo for instance just for a baseline.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Zap Brannigan
How well does this card play music? Say compared to the M-Audio Revo for instance just for a baseline.

For my own, I'm just using it to pass digital and I'm letting my receiver do the work.

 

[Boobers]

I got this email address from their website: global@digitalaudio.co.kr

Here's the address of the tech that finally answered me: wink@digitalaudio.co.kr

They finally answered my second email, and here's what they had to say about nForce2 incompatibility:

Hello.
In case of main board compatible problem, it might be happened. But we have no nForce2 main board right now.
We will check it in detail later. And we will report it to cmedia also.
However we can?t test it right now. Sorry for this.
Thanks.
Best regards
Park.

Nice. Thanks for all the support Bluegears... Thank you very little...

BTW, where is the new driver that was supposed to be out at the end of August? It's been three months now without an updated driver...

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Boobers
I got this email address from their website: global@digitalaudio.co.kr

Here's the address of the tech that finally answered me: wink@digitalaudio.co.kr

They finally answered my second email, and here's what they had to say about nForce2 incompatibility:

Hello.
In case of main board compatible problem, it might be happened. But we have no nForce2 main board right now.
We will check it in detail later. And we will report it to cmedia also.
However we can?t test it right now. Sorry for this.
Thanks.
Best regards
Park.

Nice. Thanks for all the support Bluegears... Thank you very little...

BTW, where is the new driver that was supposed to be out at the end of August? It's been three months now without an updated driver...

Try sales@bluegears.com

 

[Boobers]

Thanks. I forwarded the email on to them. Maybe they speek english...

EDIT: OK, they responded the next day, but still didn't help (and their engrish isn't any better). But, I guess that's better than no response at all (?). Here's what they said about the new driver:

Thank you for your patience.
We are supposed to release new driver today. But for some reason, we are still testing new driver to make sure that it perform right way.
I am so sorry for this delay but I will keep you updated as soon as we release the driver.
Best Regards,

Jay Heo
BlueGears, Inc.
41662 Christy St.
Fremont, CA 94538
Tel: 510.657.7252
Fax:510.657.7275
http://www.bluegears.com

 

[baron210]

Hi,

Having been tasked to build two new systems at home, I have just plumped to buy this card and recieved it through the post (for the second system, I bought a Turtle Beach montego DD live capable card with the same C-Media chipset to do a mino side by side comparison).
Basically, Although I have upgraded from 32 bit to 64 bit capable CPU and a new Nforce4 Ultra Mainboard (with duel SLI PCI-E capable graphics), I cannot believe that the mighty Nvidia corporation, decided to drop such a great product as the Soundstorm audio chipset.
To be honest, both cards that I have bought have fairly shaky drivers now (I just hopr that the driver support is better than say Creaive Labs), I say "Give them a chance, time will improve these card's, of that i am sure".
Nvidia have long been known for A1 driver support, my last motherboard (an Abit N7 -s Rev 2.0) ended up producing amasing quality sound with little or no perceptable latency, I have considered running my old rig aside my new one just to get the Soundstorm to Encode the DD 5.1 to my Videologic Digitheatre DTS setup, but this would seem slightly extravagent (if it would work at all???).
I also have an Audigy Platinum (running hacked Audigy 2 drivers - much better sound / Open AL support etc), and am also considering getting Creative's new DTS-610 DTS Live encoder / Decoder, to see what its all about, As for Nvidia dropping the Soundstorm, I think that's gone the same way as the everlasting lightbulb (somebody at creative has thrown huge wads of cash at Nvidia so as to get the product "Snuffed out").
As a final word, if the game being run has A3d support, these C-media chips fully support that standard (much more convincing sound placement than say EAX).

Old System

Amd Athlon 2500+ Barton Core CPU
Abit NF7 -S w Sata Raid
512MB Crucial PC2100 Ram
4X40GB Hdd (ata100)
Nvidia Geforce FX5600 128MB graphics
Voodoo2 12mb Passthrough Graphics
Soundstorm + Audigy Platinum
Videologic Digitheatre DTS 5.1 Dec, Amp + Spkrs
Logitech Optical Keyboard + MS wired Mouse
Logitech Force Feedback Formula Force Wheel + Pedals
Microsoft version 1 (gameport) and 2 (USB) Sidewinder Joysticks.

New System
some of the above reused +
100% Clear (seethrough) Acrylic Custom Case with Neons and Cold cathode lights,
AMD 64 X2 (duel core) 3800+ CPU @ 2.0GHZ x 2
Gigabyte Socket 939 SLI PCI Expre(sso) motherboard + duel GPU 3d1 Limited edition Geforce 6600GT 256MB Graphics card (2 in 1 SLI mode),
2 x 512MB ultra timed Corsair XML Matched duel channel PC3200 Ram (1 GB)
Razor Copperhead All Black Limited Edition 2000dpi Laser mouse (a real kitten),
2 x SATA Western Digital Raptor 74gb 10,000 rpm Hard drives in raid 0,
2 x SATA Maxtor 160GB Raid 0 (138gb + 310gb total capacity)...
HUGE Hole in Credit rating / Bank balance (to be repaired asap)...

Many thanks Baron210... URL = http://www.atpf23.dsl.pipex.com

 

[Boobers]

IMHO these X-Mystique cards are a rip off. I've been waiting over four months for a new 32-bit driver update. They keep telling me they are working on it. Well, they've been working too long IMO and this card should be avoided for lack of support.

My problem is that the X-Mystique is NOT compatable with the nForce2 chipset. Bluegears sent me this reply:

Hello.
In case of main board compatible problem, it might be happened. But we have no nForce2 main board right now. We will check it in detail later. And we will report it to cmedia also. However we can?t test it right now. Sorry for this.
Thanks.
Best regards
Park.

So...they never even bothered to check compatibitily with the NF2 chipset. I mean, how dumb are they? That is one of the most popular chipsets ever and they didn't even check to see it their product was compatable?

I'm sick and tired of Bluegears and their lack of concern for their customers. Especially since the sound card costs $95 and gives me constant blue screens during gaming (WoW).

If I see that blue screen with the cmuda3.sys error one more time I'm going to smash that damn X-Mystique with a hammer!

BTW, concerning SoundStorm...that chipset wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I mean, while playing WoW, some sounds would NEVER be produced. They were just plain missing. At least the X-Mystique plays ALL the sounds in a game...SoundStorm wasn't that good, especially for gaming.