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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 0 day
Boost your desktop's audio performance with a sound card from one of the premier names in computer audio—Creative Labs. The Sound Blaster Xtreme Audio sound card is designed to enhance your PC gaming, music, and movie experience and improve your computer's overall performance. The card’s X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer will make your game audio more dynamic and realistic while improving both low and high frequencies giving you smoother, cleaner sound
The card's audio processor with Creative's CMSS-3D technology is able to remix 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.
Music and movies benefit from Creative's audio technology know-how, too. For enjoying your favorite DVDs, the card is THX certified and can handle decoding DTS and Dolby Digital EX duties via a free download of Cyberlink PowerDVD software. Simply pop this card into a vacant PCI-card slot in your desktop and you’ll have speaker and headphone connections for stereo to 7.1-channel surround sound.
Pros: It sounds better than integrated audio, 24-bit and 96 khz audio.
Cons: The front audio doesn't work correctly, and this is not an X-Fi. It uses different drivers than the X-Fi cards, and it is almost identical to my old Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit. The only differences I can find are the front audio, and the processor number on it. However, everything else looks the same, and the crystal oscillator even runs at the same speed as the Live! did. Also, you can't select "Creative X-Fi" in Battlefield 2142.
Other Thoughts: Terrible marketing scheme.
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Not for games
Reviewed By: on 12/26/2006
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: Music sounds great as long as you arent using graphical videos with it. otherwise both the graphic and the music will slow down to 50% normal speed.
Cons: Not for games, heard scratching when there were multiple sounds and the game would lag in 2142. Not for games, but great for movies and listening.
Other Thoughts: I have built many systems with Audigys and figures this would be great. i was wrong...
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Pros: It's a newer card with new - continues from "Cons:" below
Cons: and old chips.
Other Thoughts: Try setting your PCI Latency to a higher number, this can be accomplished through you BIOS or by a 3rd party software. I have a Audigy 2 ZS (Z=Digital S=Analog) with the PCI Bus Latency set to 96 from the BIOS. This should stabilize the communication with PCI and AGP devices on your systems. Search the web for more information.
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Decent
Reviewed By: coldwash on 10/27/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Better than onboard, Ran on both windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, and Vista Business 64 bit fine. Mic works well contrary to other reviews. Running max audio quality with no performance problems
Cons: No digital connections, Alchemy X-Fi doesn't seem to work well in windows 7 for some games, it made battlefield vietnam stop loading. Had to disable it for BFV.
Other Thoughts: Bought it because of terrible 60hz hum, and processor whine i get with new mobo. Previously running audigy card, (obviously integrated audio was worse) this really didn't do much better, need something with better onboard processing. It actually did improve microphone quality greatly enough that people dont complain about my noise, thats the only reason i decided to live with it.
Running Asus P5Q3 mobo (specs look great, but really bad ram compatibility), Intel Q8300 Core 2 Quad, 2x2Gb Patriot Viper 1600Mhz DDR3 7-7-7-20, Coolermaster 550W Modular PSU, Gigabyte 512 Mb Radeon 4850, razer lycosa keyboard, Plenty of Cooling, including Zalman CPU cooler. Surge Protectors have noise filters. Tried RMAing out mobo, helped noticeably actually, but still terrible, swapped out cpu, swapped out case, swapped out psu, swapped out video, tried 3 sound cards and of course onboard audio. Havent tried any great modern sound cards with good processors and caps.
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Mostly overpriced Junk
Reviewed By: IT guy on 10/22/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: Not much. Use for regular playback of music, etc. is ok. Using it for more strenuous activity (movies, dolby decoding) puts strain on CPU. Sounds better than onboard sound but uses the CPU too much.
Cons: Is not an X-Fi board. It's the equivalent of a Sounblaster Live Board. A total ripoff if you ask me. The drivers absolutely stink for this board. The only drivers that work are the Daniel K modded drivers you can find on the net. Creative actually went after him because he fixed the drivers so they worked. What a great company. Anyway, with modded drivers it works. If you use stock drivers from Creative, good luck. I would look elsewhere in that case.
Other Thoughts: Creative absolutely stinks from a support standpoint. They're drivers are horrible and have been for years now. They rebadge product and charge a premium for the same thing. With bad drivers to go with it. Run, don't walk away from these things.
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Model
Brand
Creative
Model
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Audio core
Audio Chipset
X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity
Sample Rate
96KHz
Digital Audio
24-bit
SNR
>108dB (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted)
Ports
Line In
Yes
SPDIF Out
Yes
MIC In
Yes
MIDI/Joystick
No
CD/Aux In
Yes
Other Ports
Auxiliary Line level Input (via 4-pin Molex connector) Intel HD Audio Compatible Front Panel Header (2x5pin)
Spec
Interface
PCI
Remote Control
No
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows Vista (Drivers available at us.creative.com) or Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2, x64 Edition or Media Center Edition) Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor or equivalent Available PCI 2.1 slot 256MB RAM 600MB of free hard disk space CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately) Internet connection to download PowerDVD software
Restore the details and vibrance your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so you'll hear it all-crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions.
Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like a live performance. Listen on a pair of desktop speakers or a full 5.1 speaker system.
Slip on your headphones and X-Fi technology moves the sound away from your ears into the space around you. You'll feel like you're sitting in with your favorite band or in the best seat at the movie theater.
Download Cyberlink PowerDVD software with DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding for free and get an unbeatable DVD movie watching experience.
Windows Vista
Windows Vista
Certified for Windows Vista
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts
1 year limited
Introduction
Boost your desktop's audio performance with a sound card from one of the premier names in computer audio—Creative Labs. The Sound Blaster Xtreme Audio sound card is designed to enhance your PC gaming, music, and movie experience and improve your computer's overall performance. The card’s X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer will make your game audio more dynamic and realistic while improving both low and high frequencies giving you smoother, cleaner sound
The card's audio processor with Creative's CMSS-3D technology is able to remix 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.
Music and movies benefit from Creative's audio technology know-how, too. For enjoying your favorite DVDs, the card is THX certified and can handle decoding DTS and Dolby Digital EX duties via a free download of Cyberlink PowerDVD software. Simply pop this card into a vacant PCI-card slot in your desktop and you’ll have speaker and headphone connections for stereo to 7.1-channel surround sound.
Highlights
X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer The X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer enhances MP3 and movie sound for cleaner, smoother and more audio that is even better than what you would expect from original CDs or DVDs! It even automatically upgrades existing games to Xtreme Fidelity quality.
X-Fi CMSS-3D Intelligent Surround Sound Remixing X-Fi CMSS-3D intelligently upgrades your stereo MP3 music, movies and games to surround sound using your stereo speakers, headphones or multi-channel speakers.
Reviewed By: BenT on 1/4/2007
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
