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today we're going to be having a look at the X Raider 7.1 from awesome tech this is one of their lower end cards but it does still have some key features first of all you've got support for 7.1 audio so that means you can hook it up to basically any audio system that you can get your hands on for a pc I don't know that there are too many people running you know 9.1 or 7.2 audio systems on their computers but I mean hey if you're doing that then feel free to drop us a comment on the video and you know let me know hey Linus you're off your rocker you have no idea what you're talking about i'm running that so this is a pci sound card as i mentioned before you got support for 7.1 audio but there's also some other cool stuff first of all you've got support for optical input and output which is something that it has over its little brother the X studio 5.1 and you've also got swappable op amp sockets for all all 8 channels so that's a pretty cool feature as well have a closer look at the card in just a minute I just want to have a look at the accessory package so they've got an easy set-up guide shows you how to install your drivers and yeah hey look at that they've even got instructions for downloading the drivers off the Oz and tech website good work auzentech that is the correct thing to do what else do we have in here we have a driver CD ok so you probably won't need that because you can download the drivers off the manufacturer website so that's it that's the whole accessory package other than that we've just got a part now awesome tech cards as I mentioned in my last unboxing in the house intact hard are generally speaking the best purchased choice to make kien your price range whatever your price range happens to be to figure out your price range how much you want to spend on a sound card and if you just by nas and tech card for however much that is then you'll probably get pretty much the best card for your dollar so here we aren't we've got internal digital audio out this is running off of the hope can't see that huh chip said is that we have a look well apparently it's using an exterior audio engine okay whatever that means and we're actually running a c-media cmi eight seven six eight audio processor I think it's just labeled a little bit differently oh no it's not nevermind I was just apparently I went crazy for a minute I couldn't see the I couldn't see that right there okay nevermind i figured it up so here's all your swappable op and socket so you can go ahead take those out these will base it I mean amplification is what gives you most of the distortion in your audio so if you replace them with a higher quality op amp or if you replace them with one that just sounds a little bit better to you you can actually get a very customizable sound out of a fairly inexpensive card with that particular feature so that's pretty cool you've also got support for front panel audio so there's no custom headers or anything like that you just hook that right up to your front panel HD audio so here we are here is our digital optical in and out and then our 7.1 interface so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ex Raider 7.1 pci sound card oh yeah oh nevermind hold on apparently it has some unique karaoke functionality cool you can add color with Mike echo key shifting and vocal cancellation that's pretty neat software feature don't forget to subscribe to my video blog