Creative Labs and ASUS have been trading barbs over a very gray area of the cyberscape: Can a hardware manufacturer, through its own design, support another company's proprietary software?
ASUS doesn't care about the answer, as it's going ahead with its latest, sub-$100 offering. A tiny PCI Express audio card, the Xonar DX boasts features far larger than it looks like it possibly can. Most notoriously, it uses a software engine called DirectSound 3D GX 2.0 to pick up EAX Advanced HD 5 calls and emulate them through its own inner workings.
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