Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty audio card @ The Tech Report

Vikingod · Mar 17, 2006, 02:56 PM

It's rare that a new product completely outclasses its competition, but that's what happened when Creative introduced its X-Fi audio processor—not that there are many real competitors left in the PC audio market, mind you. Still, it's hard to argue with the X-Fi's attractive blend of exceptional sound quality and hardware acceleration for positional 3D audio. Those attributes, combined with the X-Fi's flexible architecture and a well-stocked quiver of useful features, were enough to earn the chip distinction in our Best of 2005 Awards. The X-Fi XtremeMusic won an Editor's Choice award when we reviewed the card back in October, too.
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~~Alien1~~ · Mar 17, 2006, 03:13 PM

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While the XtremeMusic's reasonable price tag has made it our favorite X-Fi, the card doesn't offer much in the way of extra I/O ports. It also lacks X-RAM—onboard memory that can be used by the X-Fi audio processor to store additional voices and higher quality audio assets. Creative claims X-RAM can ultimately improve gaming performance. Fortunately, both X-RAM and additional I/O ports are available on the X-Fi Fatal1ty, with a red LED riding shotgun, of course.

Yea it's great series and with great drivers

Especially the Fatality and the Elite pro models rock and i am very happy of owning one
but no game takes advantage of the X-RAM yet

Mar 17, 2006, 02:56 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty audio card @ The Tech Report It's rare that a new product completely outclasses its competition, but that's what happened when Creative introduced its X-Fi audio processor—not that there are many real competitors left in the PC audio market, mind you. Still, it's hard to argue with the X-Fi's attractive blend of exceptional sound quality and hardware acceleration for positional 3D audio. Those attributes, combined with the X-Fi's flexible architecture and a well-stocked quiver of useful features, were enough to earn the chip distinction in our Best of 2005 Awards. The X-Fi XtremeMusic won an Editor's Choice award when we reviewed the card back in October, too. ___________ Read More / Source: The Tech Report __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*