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Boost your desktop's audio performance with a sound card from one of the premier names in computer audio—Creative Labs. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card is designed to enhance your PC gaming experience.
The card's audio processor, with help from Creative's CMSS-3D technology remixes your stereo audio into surround sound—even through stereo headphones. This is ideal for playing first-person shooters so you can hear your enemies before it's too late. There's 64MB of onboard RAM as well, freeing up demands on your PC's memory and increasing overall gaming performance. EAX Advanced HD delivers realistic sound effects that take your gaming experience to the next level.
Music and movies benefit from Creative's audio technology know-how, too. For enjoying your favorite DVDs, the card can handle decoding DTS and Dolby Digital EX duties. Add this to your arsenal of gaming weapons today, and open yourself up to a whole new level of sound!
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Good card, shaky Vista drivers
- Pros: This card is still the benchmark to beat. Oxygen cards may have better output quality, but for a simple thing such as optical+digital simultaneous output, SB is on the short-list. Also, as good as on-board audio has gotten, on-board audio is still nowhere near this card for high performance audio (games, stutter free audio when your PC is doing a million other things, etc.)
- Cons: Vista drivers are still shaky. After a few days, the card distorts sound on Vista MCE. Switching sound-mode or rebooting makes the problem go away. Installing using the included CD somehow installs the "wrong" driver (Windows drivers instead of SB) and a few other oddities. All in all, the Titanium is a better card that X-Fi, but the software needs more cooking.
- Other Thoughts: Upgrading from X-Fi to Titanium was not as big of a quality jump as SB Live to X-Fi. PCI-Express interface is really good to have... finally something to put in those useless 1x slots ;-)
BTW, I own both the Titanium and Fatality Titanium. I've used these cards with both XP and Vista. Using either in XP makes for a 5 star review... This review is strictly in the scope of Vista.
- Pros: PCI-express, decent frequency response (better than many onboard solutions), Intel HD front panel audio connector, not named after that Fatal1ty guy we've heard all too much about...
- Cons: Frequency response of the card rolls off .5-1dB before 20kHz. Not quite as good a sound quality compared to other pro/high-end cards.
- Other Thoughts: The Titanium non-Fatal1ty version of the sound card doesn't seem to have the 64MB of 'X-RAM' as a feature. The card does seem to share the same PCB layout as the Fatal1ty version though. The frequency response and harmonic distortion of both cards is probably comparable from what I've measured.
PCI-express interface is a plus. Old fashioned PCI slots will eventually go the way of the dodo bird and motherboards today are coming with fewer and fewer of them.
The card really doesn't bring anything new to the table with computers being as fast as they are today. I would have at least expected a better quality DAC.
| Model | 70SB088000004 |
| Channels | 7.1 |
| Sample Rate | 96KHz |
| Digital Audio | 24-bit |
| SNR | 109dB |
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Problems and More Problems
- Pros: Well like all Creative Products they advertise and promise you the greatest product but actual delivery of the promise is poor to say the least!
- Cons: Hardware lockups,conflicts with everything in my system moving it to different slots is not any help! It crackles and pops on the internet it causes my programs to lock up and sometimes they won't even load, it wouldn't even let solitair load.
- Other Thoughts: All the problems people report on the internet about these cards are real not just exaggerations. I know everyone doesn't have problems with them but I have your own mileage may vary good luck if you purchase!!!!
For world of warcraft, max sound settings with reverb. All I can say is WOW!
- Pros: Outstanding sound quality. The clarity of the sound surprised me. I had never heard that level of detail in world of warcraft (WOW). Runs smooth in Win XP. Has dedicated GAME mode which is nice. Along with entertainment mode and audio creation mode. Very nice
- Cons: None so far. Will test on Windows 7 Ultimate soon.
- Other Thoughts: I believe that this has some very good audio creating and editing features. But I have not yet used them.
- Pros: Great sound, nice digital out
- Cons: would of gave it a 5 egg but had issues with the micophone it seems the software interface was an after thought with the mic.
- Other Thoughts: In regards to the cons was due to an install with windows 7 64 bit
| Model |
| Brand |
Creative |
| Model |
70SB088000004 |
| Audio core |
| Channels |
7.1 |
| Sample Rate |
96KHz |
| Digital Audio |
24-bit |
| SNR |
109dB |
| Ports |
| Line In |
24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 96kHz sample rate |
| Line Out |
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources at 192kHz to stereo output |
| MIC In |
Yes |
| Spec |
| Interface |
PCI Express 1x |
| Operating Systems Supported |
Microsoft Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) or Windows XP (x64, Service Pack 2 or Media Center Edition) |
| System Requirements |
Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon or equivalent 1.6 GHz processor
256MB RAM (512MB for Windows Vista)
600MB of free hard disk space
Available PCI Express slot (x1, x4 or x16)
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Internet connection to download PowerDVD software |
| Features |
| Features |
Target Audience:
PC Gamers and audio enthusiasts looking for faster performance and more realistic gaming sound as well
as the richest, most dynamic audio experience for music and movies.
Hear crackling gunfire and earth-shattering explosions, EAX 5.0 delivers sound effects that pull you into the game.
If you're using Windows Vista, Creative ALchemy restores EAX surround sound for the same great gaming experience.
Hear 3D positional audio so precise, you can locate enemies by sound. Plus X-Fi CMSS-3D ensures you'll get amazing surround sound even with normal stereo headphones.
Boost performance in your favorite games with hardware audio acceleration that will blow your motherboard audio away.
Communicate loud and clear in games with high quality inputs for your headset or microphone.
Plus, with Dolby Digital Live encoding, connect to your home theater system through a single digital cable for compelling 5.1 surround sound (optical cable available separately).
Make all of your music sound better with Xtreme
Fidelity audio technology that restores the detail and larity to compressed music files like MP3s.
Watch your DVDs in cinematic surround sound with PowerDVD software featuring DTS and Dolby Digital -EX decoding (free download with purchase). |
| Physical Spec |
| Dimensions |
11.2" x 2.4" x 7.9" |
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Reviewed By: soso on 11/9/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
