Uhh.. what's a USB decoder box?

[enihsg]

I recently bought these headphones online: http://www.ecoboss.com/Page2.html

The headphones work just fine but it also comes with the little "USB decoder box" that you see in the picture. I have no idea what it's supposed to do. The guide that came with it is useless. Any help?

 

[esun]

It's an external sound card basically. Plug it into your USB port, then plug your headphones into it. Or, if you already have a sound card, then it's not necessary to use it at all.

 

[enihsg]

Well I don't use a sound card because I have Vista, which disables hardware acceleration making sound cards kinda useless. Is this box similarly useless because of Vista? I also noticed that the box uses AC97 while my comp uses HD audio. Should I still use the box? Do I still get surround sound without it? Thanks for your help.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Vista disables hardware acceleration?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Vista disables hardware acceleration?

Yes, in every sound card except the more expensive Creative X-Fi's.

 

[GeeFizzleDizzle]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Vista disables hardware acceleration?

Yes, in every sound card except the more expensive Creative X-Fi's.

And yet another reason to not use that lameass excuse for an OS.