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Sudhian Media has posted an article on ASUS Premium Series Audio



Asus's Proactive Premium series of motherboards are the company's flagship, the creme of the crop and a perfect representation of peripheral advancements over the years,A few months ago we took a look at Intel's High Definition Audio and found that it was just sub-par and not much better
then the existing ADI1885 AC'97 codec. Our test board at the time was equipped with the Realtek ALC880 HDA codec and performed abysmally. At the time of testing, we weren't able to get a hold of a CMEDIA CMI9880 based solution, which is supposedly better then the ALC880. Since Asus tends to equip their high end motherboards with above par audio solutions, we've chosen their P5GD2 as the test platform for the CMI9880.
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