Vikingod

Four years and roughly 100 million USD is the end results of today's tested product people. You can imagine I feel quite flattered that we are amongst the earliest to actually review Creative Labs's newborn baby, the X-Fi series soundcard. Not many websites were able to bring you a decent review on the new X-Fi product so we'll do our best. I say decent because we will not go 100% in-depth as we will do in a follow up article on a X-Fi soundcard that'll be written by Brann Mitchell. BTW if you need really in-depth technical information please visit Tom's Hardware, they actually copied pretty much the entire whitepaper from Creative Labs on X-Fi and pretty much presented it as their own written article.

I can imagine that for Creative it is getting increasingly difficult to sell low and mid-range soundcard products as it is getting harder and harder for the company to compete with the endless and very progressively increasing number of integrated sound solutions on mainboards these days. I mean, you've gotta have a product out there that can really hammer these solutions. The Realtek High Definition Codecs, VIA's Envy and NVIDIA's Soundstorm are seriously good solutions and yet it is very direct competition for Creative Labs as it's integrated on the mainboard for almost free.
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