Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000)
from: Creative Labs
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Product Description:
There's so much focus on video and graphics when it comes to games. But that's only part of the experience. What if you couldn't hear the blasts, bombs, explosions, tackles, and grunts? That's why your available PCI slot in your desktop needs this Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme sound card for PCI.The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card delivers faster audio performance and intense, realistic sound in all your games. Headphone surround sound is better too so good, you'll swear you're listening to multichannel speakers and your games will sound richer as you hear all of the crisp, clear highs and bone-crushing lows you've been missing.Revitalize your compressed game sounds with X-Fi Crystalizer and hear crisp, sharp gunshots and deep, booming explosions for the most intense gaming experience ever X-Fi Crystalizer repairs the damage that MP3 and WMA compression causes and intelligently enhances high and low frequencies for cleaner music playback and more realistic movie sound Delivers THX certified surround sound and includes Cyberlink PowerDVD software with DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding via free download for an unbeatable DVD movie watching experience X-Fi CMSS-3D matches the sound to your headphones or multichannel speakers and positions specific audio elements such as voice in the center and ambient sounds in surrounding channels, so your music and movies sound more alive A dedicated audio creation mode supports near transparent conversion between any resolutions, digital-matched recording, low-latency ASIO support and more
There's so much focus on video and graphics when it comes to games. But that's only part of the experience. What if you couldn't hear the blasts, bombs, explosions, tackles, and grunts? That's why your available PCI slot in your desktop needs this Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme sound card for PCI.The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card delivers faster audio performance and intense, realistic sound in all your games. Headphone surround sound is better too so good, you'll swear you're listening to multichannel speakers and your games will sound richer as you hear all of the crisp, clear highs and bone-crushing lows you've been missing.Revitalize your compressed game sounds with X-Fi Crystalizer and hear crisp, sharp gunshots and deep, booming explosions for the most intense gaming experience ever X-Fi Crystalizer repairs the damage that MP3 and WMA compression causes and intelligently enhances high and low frequencies for cleaner music playback and more realistic movie sound Delivers THX certified surround sound and includes Cyberlink PowerDVD software with DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding via free download for an unbeatable DVD movie watching experience X-Fi CMSS-3D matches the sound to your headphones or multichannel speakers and positions specific audio elements such as voice in the center and ambient sounds in surrounding channels, so your music and movies sound more alive A dedicated audio creation mode supports near transparent conversion between any resolutions, digital-matched recording, low-latency ASIO support and more
Features:
- Device Type - Sound card
- Interface Type - PCI
- Localization - English
- Sound Output Mode - 7.1
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- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000)
I bought this sound card around Dec. 2008 to replace my SoundBlaster Live! 24 Bit basic card (an okay sound card), because I wanted just a little more sparkle in my games, DVDs & mp3s. It gave me that, and a whole lot more.
I bought the card for $69.95 USD at BestBuy. Sound is amazing, particularly music.I'm running Windows 7 Build 7057 (32 bit), and the the Creative Labs beta drivers for Win7 work flawlessly.My system is an ancient P4 3.4 GHz Northwood, with 4 GB PC3200 DDR dual ... Read More
Rating: - After weeks of research and testing the final answer is:
Let me say this. I brought the Xtreme Game card and the T40 speakers. Now first lets' review the speakers. Note: (this review is posted for the sound card and the speakers)
Creative T-40 speakers - without the Xtreme card -very good; with the Xtreme card - Outstanding
These speakers will not truly perform at top quality unless you have a high end sound card. My motherboard has what it calls "HD sound" and it can handle the T-40's fairly well. I played around with it and sure enough I discovered ... Read More
Rating: - Great Card
Bought this to replace onboard sound. Easy install, Vista recognized it immediately. Ton of options, actually more than I use. I love the X-Fi Crystalizer, makes a huge difference with mp3's.
Rating: 
- Big Improvement in sound but drivers can be a hassle
Easy installation. Remove all sound drivers from device manager. Open case, insert sound card. Turn on computer. Windows finds it and asks for the install disk. Put in install disk and install. Do a computer restart and I GOT THE BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH. After trying several different work arounds, including a windows repair I had to send my computer to a shop and have the harddrive formatted and Windows reinstalled. We can't prove the software caused the crash but I haven't had any problems until I installed ... Read More
Rating: - great for games and ASIO support is good too
I needed a gaming card and one with ASIO support for home based recording.All my music hardware is USB based and I've got 7ms or less of latency with all of them.This includes an Axiom 61 midi controller keyboard, Guitar Rig 3 software edition without their Rig Control unit, and Line 6 Toneport UX2.So far I'm totally satisfied and don't expect to have to buy a 'pro quality' soundcard which is BIG bucks.All my games sound great.Highly recommended for at home musicians and gamers.
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000)I bought this sound card around Dec. 2008 to replace my SoundBlaster Live! 24 Bit basic card (an okay sound card), because I wanted just a little more sparkle in my games, DVDs & mp3s. It gave me that, and a whole lot more.
I bought the card for $69.95 USD at BestBuy. Sound is amazing, particularly music.I'm running Windows 7 Build 7057 (32 bit), and the the Creative Labs beta drivers for Win7 work flawlessly.My system is an ancient P4 3.4 GHz Northwood, with 4 GB PC3200 DDR dual ... Read More
- After weeks of research and testing the final answer is:Let me say this. I brought the Xtreme Game card and the T40 speakers. Now first lets' review the speakers. Note: (this review is posted for the sound card and the speakers)
Creative T-40 speakers - without the Xtreme card -very good; with the Xtreme card - Outstanding
These speakers will not truly perform at top quality unless you have a high end sound card. My motherboard has what it calls "HD sound" and it can handle the T-40's fairly well. I played around with it and sure enough I discovered ... Read More
- Great CardBought this to replace onboard sound. Easy install, Vista recognized it immediately. Ton of options, actually more than I use. I love the X-Fi Crystalizer, makes a huge difference with mp3's.
- Big Improvement in sound but drivers can be a hassleEasy installation. Remove all sound drivers from device manager. Open case, insert sound card. Turn on computer. Windows finds it and asks for the install disk. Put in install disk and install. Do a computer restart and I GOT THE BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH. After trying several different work arounds, including a windows repair I had to send my computer to a shop and have the harddrive formatted and Windows reinstalled. We can't prove the software caused the crash but I haven't had any problems until I installed ... Read More
- great for games and ASIO support is good tooI needed a gaming card and one with ASIO support for home based recording.All my music hardware is USB based and I've got 7ms or less of latency with all of them.This includes an Axiom 61 midi controller keyboard, Guitar Rig 3 software edition without their Rig Control unit, and Line 6 Toneport UX2.So far I'm totally satisfied and don't expect to have to buy a 'pro quality' soundcard which is BIG bucks.All my games sound great.Highly recommended for at home musicians and gamers.
