Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro Series Sound Card

Get the fastest performance and the most intense, realistic audio in your games, designed specifically for gamers, the Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card delivers the fastest audio performance and the most intense, realistic sound in all your games. Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound . Plus it features X-RAM for an even bigger quality and performance boost in games with X-RAM support. It's Sound Blaster...on steroids.

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• Reviewed by: jwkoda

  07-17-08

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  Strengths: Nice Sounding Card, X-Fi Technology

  Weaknesses:Expensive, Poor Support, Buggy Software and Drivers

  Overall Evaluation: This X-Fi card from Creative sounds nice when the software and drivers work. However, Creative drivers are famous for not working. If you try to get help from Creative, you are in for a frustrating experience. Updating drivers and software also involves lengthy downloads and multiple files to install. why can't Creative simplify this process.The X-Fi chip is truly a high end audio chip but creative surrounds it with very poor quality electrolytic capacitors and opamps. I have replaced the opamps and some of the caps on my card and it has resulted in significant improvements. This of course will void the warranty so I don't recommend this solution for others.The price of these cards has finally started to come down and they can now be purchased for as little as $69 after mail in rebate. I think this is a really nice sounding card but I think it could be much better if Creative would update some of the components and clean up the software.

• Reviewed by: taltorre

  07-07-08

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  Strengths: Signal-to-Noise Ratio 10924-bit Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to AnalogTotal Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz = 0.004%

  Weaknesses:You have to download the new drivers for Vista NO support for XLR or 1/4 input.

  Overall Evaluation: The frequency response can get as low as 10HZ with distortion level at .004%, that is PROFESSIONAL level specification! This card uses its own built in 64MB RAM, rather than use the system's RAM so now your video editing software or video game runs smoother and faster. I have some headphones with frequency ranges from 10hz to 24khz and a 2.1 desktop speakers with frequency ranges from 15hz to 27khz, so I recommend if you get this card get some Awesome speakers or headphones.

• Reviewed by: dmccue69

  04-20-08

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  Strengths: Gaming, EAX

  Weaknesses:Drivers have some problems under Vista with certain motherboard chipsets.

  Overall Evaluation: I just purchased this sound card for the new system I built. I normally just use on-board audio on my computers as I am not much of an audiophile. I decided to build my new rig for gaming as some of the new PC games look like fun. I knew that if I wanted to get good positional sound I needed a Creative Labs card for EAX support. I also wanted a card that would take care of the sound processing and leave my CPU from having to take on the load. This card takes care of all of both of those issues. It also sounds awesome when combined with one of today's newest games and a high quality speaker system like the Logitech Z-5500. What a huge improvement over on-board sound. I highly recommend this card.

• Reviewed by: Unclefunnyman

  02-02-08

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  Strengths: Sounds Good To Me

  Weaknesses:None

  Overall Evaluation: I used to think that PC gaming was all about graphics quality. Although this is certainly important, GAMEPLAY is important too, look at Darwinia. But I was in for quite a surprise when I first listened to my headphones using this sound card. WOW! Halo, Crysis, BF2, even Darwinia have NEVER sounded like this before. You are actually ONE WITH THE GAME with the audio experience provided by this card.

• Reviewed by: DR3

  11-21-07

  Duration of ownership: 7 Days

  Strengths: This card is outstanding!Easy to install, great support for games.Sound is noticeably better and even better with medium to good speakers. Make sure your speakers and headphones support at least 5

  Weaknesses:None that I have noticed.Must have a good set of speakers and headphones to really get the benefits of this great card.

  Overall Evaluation: No more sneaking up one me.I finally can hear what I have been missing.With my Medusa 5.1 ProGamer Edition V2 headsets the audio is exceptional.Took a while to stop jumping or flinching from near misses or grenade explosions.If you can afford them it is a must buy!

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