Creative unveils the X-Fi series sound cards (Creative haters GTFO)

2008-05-18 01:30:57

#1

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

Sound wave specialist, Creative has now released two new sound cards, both part of the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium series. The fresh additions, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series and Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series both target PC gamers and make use PCI-Express x1 interfaces.

The two new sound cards feature Dolby Digital encoding, 24-bit audio quality and 109db SNR, X-Fi Crystalizer technology to audio algorithms to intelligently and selectively determine how to restore the highs and lows from sound effects, X-Fi CMSS-3D technology, to create virtual surround sound through speakers or headphones, UAA compliance, onboard X-RAM, THX Certified surround sound and ASIO recording support.

In addition to all those above, the Champion Series package also includes an internal I/O drive that can be placed in both 3.5 or 5.25-inch bays and offers mic-in and headphone-out connections.

Both X-Fi Titanium sound blasters will start selling this summer.

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2008-05-18 01:45:28

#2

JaMrulezass: Member; +47|6735|Hong Kong

Creatives strategy was to disable features in Vista and sell new products that actually work in Vista.

Good job, especially what they did to daniel k.

Creative is fail.

Monopoly is monopoly, not buying anything from Creative ever again

2008-05-18 01:47:59

#3

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

JaMrulezass wrote:
Creatives strategy was to disable features in Vista and sell new products that actually work in Vista.

Good job, especially what they did to daniel k.

Creative is fail.

Monopoly is monopoly, not buying anything from Creative ever again

Read the title again. If this thread becomes a flame festival, I'll blame you.

2008-05-18 02:04:36

#4

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6763|N. Ireland

^ I have a Creative Audigy 2 ZS and it works fine on Vista with drivers. Anyway, cool Although I might just move back to motherboard integrated...I don't think I take much, if any at all, use out of my sound card for music and gaming.

2008-05-18 02:10:27

#5

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

kylef wrote:
^ I have a Creative Audigy 2 ZS and it works fine on Vista with drivers. Anyway, cool Although I might just move back to motherboard integrated...I don't think I take much, if any at all, use out of my sound card for music and gaming.

Kyle you are not aware what kind of a beast you have in your Audigy 2 ZS. If you are not that much into PC gaming/movies (no surround just pure stereo) but more into music then you should check these audiophile drivers http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ Audigy chip is actually better since its produced by E-mu and not Creative itself. This driver will unleash all the goodness from an E-Mu chip. Well try it and you will see hear.

2008-05-18 02:18:16

#6

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6763|N. Ireland

I'm about to move to Acoustic Aego M 2.1, from some Creative 5.1 which appears to sell on eBay for about £20 now!

2008-05-18 02:23:23

#7

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

kylef wrote:
I'm about to move to Acoustic Aego M 2.1, from some Creative 5.1 which appears to sell on eBay for about £20 now!

The satellites seem small but the reviews rate the setup good so hopefully they will be good. Never heard those since none are sold here where i live.

Edit: btw I expect a review of them when you get them

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2008-05-18 02:40:57

#8

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6763|N. Ireland

lol I searched around for the best 2.1 setup and heard great reviews about the 2300s and Aego M. Upon checking out reviews and prices, the Aegos seemed superb and the reviews are very, very promising.

2008-05-18 03:57:55

#9

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6923

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

Everything else aside, Creative really need to think of some better names. It's a clusterfuck of X-Fi fatalities at the moment

2008-05-18 04:01:30

#10

Aries_37: arrivederci frog; +368|6845|London

New cards already

Who was shelling out the £120 for the old fatal1ty FPS OC champion xtreme XXX special gamer edition cards?

Hint: noone

2008-05-18 04:50:36

#11

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6467|Winland

Lucien wrote:
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

Everything else aside, Creative really need to think of some better names. It's a clusterfuck of X-Fi fatalities at the moment

Beat me to it.

*Hugs Sound Blaster Live!

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-05-18 06:11:29

#12

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

Second pci-e by Creative

https://images.americas.creative.com/images/products/large/17791.png

http://us.creative.com/products/product … &nav=0

2008-05-18 08:19:22

#13

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6919

Sup, you're really into your music/sound quality, aren't you? What speakers/headphones are you using? You've got that crazy external sound card as well right?

2008-05-18 08:28:32

#14

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

ghettoperson wrote:
Sup, you're really into your music/sound quality, aren't you? What speakers/headphones are you using? You've got that crazy external sound card as well right?

All info can be found in my sig.

2008-05-18 08:30:02

#15

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6919

Oh yeah, not sure how I missed that...

2008-05-18 08:44:33

#16

ReTox: Member; +100|6769|State of RETOXification

I have an X-FI Platinum. Great card... has some issues that bother me, mainly a clicking in game mode that is non-stop after some reboots. But it is a nice card.

I only wish they hadn't been such pricks to Daniel K... I don't think I will buy another Creative card. I'm a developer by profession and any company going after its users who make their product better (and expose the greed strategy) is just not someone I want to do business with.

2008-05-18 09:06:30

#17

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6684|Finland

Daniel K's custom drivers > Creative Vista drivers

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2008-05-18 09:08:41

#18

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

Plz don't start with daniel K and Creative drivers (with which i hadn't had any problems at all). Topic: new sound cards from Creative.

2008-05-18 09:22:15

#19

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6684|Finland

.Sup wrote:
Plz don't start with daniel K and Creative drivers (with which i hadn't had any problems at all). Topic: new sound cards from Creative.

I'll remember that when you next time post chocolate banana's lol...

I hope these will be good and have decent price or I'll get the pci-e Asus sound card...

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2008-05-18 17:29:01

#20

Freke1: I play at night... mostly; +47|6817|the best galaxy

I just love the CMSS-3D Headphone positioning audio. What a bless for gaming. Sometimes I even prefer it for music.

https://bf3s.com/sigs/7d11696e2ffd4edeff06466095e98b0fab37462c.png

2008-06-04 02:33:06

#21

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

https://images.europe.creative.com/iss/images/products/large/main-prod17813.png

https://images.europe.creative.com/iss/images/products/large/main-prod17751.png

2008-06-04 11:49:06

#22

The_Sniper_NM: Official EVGA Fanboy; +94|6384|SC | USA |

Those don't look too bad, I just wish my 780i would have an extra pci-e slot. All three will be full :\ (2 88GTS's, 1 86GTS for second monitor).

2008-06-04 14:04:32

#23

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6723|The Twilight Zone

The_Sniper_NM wrote:
Those don't look too bad, I just wish my 780i would have an extra pci-e slot. All three will be full :\ (2 88GTS's, 1 86GTS for second monitor).

No these go in the tiny pci-e slots, pci-e 4x i think. You know which ones i mean?

2008-06-04 16:29:45

#24

The_Sniper_NM: Official EVGA Fanboy; +94|6384|SC | USA |

Edit: (I first it wasn't possible either)

Google Search wrote:
A PCIe card will physically fit (and work correctly) in any slot that is at least as large as it is (e.g. an x1 card will work in a x4 or x16 slot), and a slot of a large physical size (e.g. x16) can be wired electrically with fewer lanes (e.g. x1 or x8; however, it must still provide the power and ground connections required by the larger physical slot size).

So it will work. Still not helping me, my PCI-E slots will still be full.

If only they would make a PCI version of this card.

Last edited by The_Sniper_NM (2008-06-04 16:36:42)

2008-06-04 16:42:38

#25

Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6808|Long Island, New York

I'll probably buy one with my new Nehalem rig in December. I wanna go all out. Seems like it'd go good with a Z-5500 set.

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