Quote Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD View Post
OK, that's good =) Didn't expect much about ppl able to comment on audio here as A) this is XtremeSystems and B) Realtek onboard audio is usually sneezed at xD Would be cool to know for certain if GENE and HERO have pretty similar results or if one or the other is better in this regard. At least ASUS says GENE has 115dB SNR... equally high as Extreme6, it doesn't say for HERO, usually doesn't say means it's usually not as good (doesn't have to be like that but often is...)

And no I don't mean higher SNR rating would mean less noise or better quality but I'm interested in if there's ANY difference (opamp or caps or whatever) between HERO and GENE which differing specs could probably reveal.
I never reach the SNR that most OEMs report. I do have ASUS's guide on how to replicate their results, but prefer my own method, which seems pretty good at picking out actual noise from other bits on the board(although I do test in basically the same way they tell reviewers to).

I do have the GENE as well, but haven't got to it yet, and might not for a couple of weeks yet. I'm not the sort to comment on stuff unless I have the hardware in my hands and have tried it, so I cannot offer you any info about the GENE vs the HERO. I haven't even taken the GENE out of the box yet, and wasn't planning to until August. Oh crap..it's almost August now, isn't it? LOL.