Auzentech Prelude question

[Shadout]

Hi.

Got a question for Prelude owners (and others).
The only usable PCI slot on my motherboard is placed right above the PCI-E slot for the graphic card, so Ive been worried if it could be a problem to fit a Prelude in, especially considering the small heatsink on the x-fi chip.
I havent been able to find any measures of the cards height.

My MB is Asus P5Q-E, would post a link to a picture of it, but I can do that since this is my first post it seems :D See post below.

The lower PCI slot is sadly taken out by the GPU cooler, so only the top one is an option.

Well, my question is, should there be enough room for the Prelude to fit in? And could there be any problems having it so close to the GPU (like static noise in the sound)?

[Shadout]

http://www.hardware.info/images/news/asus_p5qe_550.jpg
The picture.

[enaberif]

You'll be fine as long as you have good air flow across your case to keep your GPU cooled.

[MpG]

No worries. I actually had a similar setup on my board at one point. The sound card is low-profile enough that there's no danger of it hitting the back of the GPU, unless your video card's got memory chips on the back and you've stuck aftermarket ramsinks onto those chips. I never had any issues with static or interference either.

[Shadout]

Ok, thanks.
Airflow for the GPU (HD4870) should be enough. Using aftermarket heatsink/fan, and intake fan blowing air right into it too. Both running quite low speed, but GPU temps are the least of my worries.

[Exmortis]

Please be it known that the preflude has a crappy mic, unusable. I have one now that is catchign dust as i use TS alot, and if I use onboard drivers they conflict even iof all disbaled but mic. SO I have a Prelude 7.1 catching dust.

[Shadout]

Hm. Googled Prelude and mic and found this:

"MIC performance with Ventrilo and Teamspeak improved" in one of the driver updates (RC7), if it has been a long time since you tried it.

Seems weird if this should be a general unfixable problem, havent heard it mentioned before, though the google search showed lots of posting about issues (but then google can find you any problem for any hardware you want really :D). Would be bad if it still got issues, since I do use Ventrilo a lot.

[Exmortis]

November 26th wa slast update from Auzentech support. I used the latest drivers in Vista 64.

I also had lots of sound skipping issues in CIV4, again I had so many issues with onvboard drivers not liking the Auzentech I can't be sure what caused what issue.

How ever if you have a EAX5.0 game? or really high quality music? the sound was UNREAL.

I was expecting a reply I will repost after the holidays as if they were not going to give me a refund I will put card up for sale.

[Chilly]

It will fit just fine, thats how I have my X-FI plugged in, above the GPU, actually.