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#SOUND BLASTER X FI XTREME WINDOWS 7#
I have an xfi in my broken computer and also had windows 7 installed with no problems whatsoever. However, as it's the musical quality I'm after, I'm happy to compromise here.
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This seems to have implications for gaming sound quality at times as far as the asus cards are concerned. The Asus xonar lack EAX support whereas the xfi don't. I noticed both the d2x and the x-fi titanium had something that would make these compressed formats sound a lot better, digitally enhancing them? Does this make a big difference over say my current setup, and secondly would it make much difference with the new Sony AV amp i had in mind?įor my needs is it worth spending the extra over the xtreme audio and getting the titanium or d2x and which on of these 2 is the better? Also what does the x-fi chip do that makes it better? The formats are MP3 in itunes and my films/tv shows in avi format with a few in mkv.
#SOUND BLASTER X FI XTREME TV#
The sound card will mainly be used for listening to music and watching a fair few tv shows and films. I forgot to mention i am running windows 7 (32bit) if that makes any difference, saw somewhere that some creative cars ahd problems with vista/win7? I'm not really an expert on sound cards so dont know much about differences between them. Ok, had a quick look, the asus xonar d2x ultra looks pretty good to be fair, extra £15 on the x-fi titanium though. I am a bit of a audio and visual phile but am also a student, the two dont mix well together though. I can get the titanium fr £70 and the xtreme audio for £40/£45. Now i know my mobo has this connection and so do both of the cards, question is do i really need the cards, will they improve the performace in this set up, bearing in mind i listen to a lot of music and films/tv shows?Ĭ)If i was to get a soundcard, then which one? Both have a feature which will restore the quality lost in mp3s and divx compression apparently (of which i have a hell of a lot), although am unsure whether this makes a big difference, if it does please say. However i have a few questions:Ī)Would getting a sound card make much difference with this current set upī)In the future (later this year) i am thinking about replacing my receiver with an av reciever, likely to be the Sony STRND1000, connecting the sound via spdif. Currently i think the sound is alright, nothing to write home about though. Too old to take digital connections and doesnt have dolby digital as its just an audio receiver. I have it hooked up to my hdtv and a very old receiver using the 3.5mm green jack to rca (red and white jacks) on the receiver. Ok, well i dont really use my computer for gaming much these days, more for uni work, listening to lots of music and plenty of films and tv shows. Like we usually do here at, if we don't give you twice as much review as any other site, we give you twice as many.As the title suggests trying to decide which of the two cards to get, if at all. Meet your new sound card: the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi! Creative developed a whole new processor to power it, the 20K1, sporting 51 million transistors and 10,000 MIPS.ġ0,000 MIPS? What the hell do you do with 10,000 MIPS? If you are Creative you could apply all that power to do sophisticated real time effects with audio streams. At the top of the list, of course, is the X-Fi.
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Thumbing through Creative's catalog of products, you can see some of the SoundBlasters of yore, like the SoundBlaster 16, still for sale. Back in the virtual world, my reverie gets cut short by an artillery borage. Oh, Creative has had their competition, but by tooth or by nail, it pretty much owned the entire sound card market since. I knew that for better or worse, Creative was here to stay, and AdLib was their first casualty.
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Shortly after AdLib put out their card, Creative put out the SoundBlaster and put Adlib out of its misery. Now we have cards with 7.1 channels, 24 bit/96 kHz sampling, 3D positional audio and games that can really use it.
#SOUND BLASTER X FI XTREME SOFTWARE#
It had 2 channel FM synthesis and a meager software bundle. I was playing Battlefield 2 online the other night, testing the X-Fi out and thinking back to playing Wing Commander with the first sound card for the PC, the AdLib. Does anyone out there remember playing Wing Commander without a sound card? Yeah, I'm so old-school that even old-school doesn't have a name for us ( Ed: I think they do, they call you "old") and games didn't use sound cards.