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Boost your Laptop's audio performance with a USB sound card from one of the premier names in computer audio: Creative Labs. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB sound card is designed to enhance your laptop's music, movie, and gaming experience at an affordable price. An easy upgrade for your laptop's integrated sound, the card's audio processor with Creative's CMSS-3D technology remixes your stereo audio into surround sound—even through stereo headphones.
EAX Advanced HD enhances game audio tracks, providing a more immersive experience. The Creative Xtreme Fidelity audio technology restores the detail and clarity to your music and movies lost during compression, making all your music and movies sound better! Simply pop this card into a vacant USB port in your laptop and you'll have speaker and headphone connections for stereo to 5.1-channel surround sound.
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Works great!
- Pros: Plug and play.... No problems. Sounds great! Good price.
- Cons: None!
- Other Thoughts: I'm a professional DJ and bought two of these for my rig. I bought one, tried it out.... and bought a second one.
I'm using them with VirtalDJ and they work perfectly. I can play one tune and cue the next with the headphones. As for the sound they kick "you know what". If you want quality sound go for them without hesitation.
In the end it was all good; until then it was a headache
- Pros: If you can get this thing to work properly, everything is good--the sound, the fact that you can output optically to a receiver, and the crystalizer sound effect that is available with the unit. But until then it was pretty tough to get everything working as it should. The first time I installed the software it went without a hitch and I got the unit to work fine. I then did notice that the CPU usage was at 5-50% when I wasn't playing any audio or video files; that and the fact that the unit's lights were still on were enough for me to want to be able to turn off the unit when I wished. But without a power button that isn't possible. Plus, I wanted to still have the onboard sound to work when the SB unit is turned off. So, with no options as to how to turn off the unit, I proceeded to unplug the USB cable connected to it. After that was when my troubles started. I was able to regain the onboard sound's functionality back, but when I went to reconnect the USB cable to the SB
- Cons: it would no longer work. After many hours of uninstalling and reinstalling, I've come to the following steps to get the darn thing back into operation. With a 3rd party software (U..SafelyRe....) and finally figuring out the steps to reinstall what I really need, the unit works fine. The steps I took in the way of software installation was:
Used the included SBcd to Remove all previous installations, restart the computer, Install the console and audio drivers from the same SB cd and restart again. Upon restart, the Autoupdate of SB would run, but I would get an error message and the process is unable to proceed. But it doesn't matter since the unit worked for me from that point on. Since it did work, I did not try to install any updates (even those I had downloaded from SB.com; and it is not likely that they'll help since I tried them with no luck) So with the unit working fine, when I now want to turn off the unit, I would "stop" the device using the already mentioned UsbSafely
- Other Thoughts: Re... software whiich would actually turn off the SB unit and it's lights. I could then use the freed up USB cable to connect my external HD if I choose. The thing I'm glad about when having the SB "stopped" is that my onboard sound works again. And to get the SB back and running, replugging the same usb cable brings it back just fine. So, all it all if it were not for my finding the usbSafe..Re... software to used as a virtual power switch for the SB unit, I probably would not have been satisfied with it enough to keep it. But the combination of the two has made the unit do just what I want, and so it's a keeper! Another note is the optical output doesn't work when the 96khz option is selected; just with the default 48khz. If you get this and can put up with a little or maybe a lot of tinkering before getting it to work, I would recommend it. If not, it's probably not for you. But of course the process might not be all that bad if some of the things I mentioned are considered.
| Model | 70SB109000000 |
| Audio Chipset | X-Fi |
| Channels | 5.1 |
| Sample Rate | 96KHz |
| Digital Audio | 24-bit |
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Great Sound
- Pros: Easy Setup and install - Installed on windows 7 pro. Just threw the cd in and set my logtech speakers to 6 ch direct. The sound is really very good and it sounds great playing games or watching movies even if they are not in 5.1
- Cons: Seems sort of expensive - comes with some trial trah which is annoying although you have the option not to install it.
- Other Thoughts: None
Works with Win 7 64-bit!
- Pros: Finding a quality sound card that supports Windows 7 64-bit is a real challenge. But this little fellow plugged right in with USB 2.0 and worked instantly, I didn't even need the driver cd (I didn't install any of the headphone software). This has a toslink out and several audio mini-pin jacks. That it's 1/3 the price of an internal sound card is a big bonus. It's marketed as a gamer's headphone controller, but I think it's more that that because it's so universal. I never give 5 stars out of principle but this one deserves it.
- Cons: The volume know doesn't work on mine, I suspect I need to install the full software suite to enable it.
- Other Thoughts: The THD is listed as .01 at 1khz. Is this for the headphone output or the overall quality of the digital section? I would like to Creative Labs make a direct comparison between this and their internal sound cards.
Caveat's galore
- Pros: Cheap, good upgrade from on-board chips for audio sources, easy to set up, 5.1 analog, TOSlink out.
- Cons: Flaky drivers, can't handle DVD movie audio streams reliably, USB doesn't have the bandwidth to handle heavy demands.
- Other Thoughts: I've got mixed feelings about this purchase. Stereo TOSlink streams work great and sound excellent, unless trying to read MP3 audio data from a 2nd USB device; not enough USB band width to make that happen. It often locked up the PC while using WinAMP. I have spent months trying to get pass-through DVD and Blu-Ray 5.1 digital streams working reliably to my receiver from this card. I've tried several different DVD viewing softwares, with various low levels of success. I've suffered driver issues, serious lag between video and audio streams (mouth and voice not in sync), PC lock-up, and BSODs. I've come to judge Creative's drivers are flaky at best. I've been disappointed this product couldn't meet my expectations. If you only listen to MP3s from your laptop's hard drive, this USB device might be a decent upgrade solution. That's what it is designed for. Just don't expect it to do any heavy data lifting.
| Model |
| Brand |
Creative |
| Series |
Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 |
| Model |
SB1090 |
| Audio core |
| Audio Chipset |
X-Fi |
| Channels |
5.1 |
| Sample Rate |
96KHz |
| Digital Audio |
24-bit |
| SNR |
>100dB |
| Ports |
| Line In |
Yes |
| Line Out |
Yes |
| SPDIF Out |
TOSLINK |
| MIC In |
Yes |
| Spec |
| Interface |
USB |
| System Requirements |
Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP (Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 2 or Media Center Edition)
Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ or equivalent processor
Available USB port (USB 2.0 Recommended)
256MB RAM (512MB RAM for Windows Vista)
600MB of free hard disk space
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately)
Internet connection to download PowerDVD software |
| Features |
| Features |
Xtreme Fidelity audio playback
Headphone surround that sounds like multichann
speakers
Surround sound from stereo music and movies
Realistic sound effects in games
Cinematic surround sound from DVD movies |
| Windows Vista |
| Windows Vista |
Certified for Windows Vista |
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Reviewed By: oncuedj.com on 6/30/2008
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
