Why settle for basic, built-in sound? Your music and movies deserve Xtreme Fidelity. Add the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card to your PC and turn your downloaded music into your own personal concert. Watch DVDs or downloaded videos with full cinematic surround sound. Plus experience 3D audio and EAX effects in games.
Revitalize your downloaded music and movies Restore the details and vibrance your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so you'll hear it all-crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions.
Surround sound from your stereo music and movies? Yes! Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like a live performance. Listen on a pair of desktop speakers or a full 5.1 speaker system.
Hear headphone surround that sounds like multichannel speakers Slip on your headphones and X-Fi technology moves the sound away from your ears and into the space around you. You'll be surrounded by nine virtual speakers and feel like you're sitting with your favorite band or in the best seat in the movie theater. Games sound better too with positional audio that's so accurate you can locate enemies by sound.
Enjoy Realistic sound effects in games Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room. Take your games to the next level with EAX® ADVANCED HD™ sound effects.
And if you're using Windows Vista™, Creative ALchemy restores surround sound for the same great gaming experience.
Your music and movies deserve Xtreme Fidelity. Add the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card to your PC and turn your downloaded music into your own personal concert. Watch DVDs or downloaded videos with full cinematic surround sound. Plus experience 3D audio and EAX effects in games.
Product Line:
Sound Blaster
Product Name:
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound Card
Product Series:
X-Fi
Product Type:
Sound Board
Interfaces/Ports
Interfaces/Ports:
4 x 3.5mm Audio Line Out
1 x Microphone In Audio Line In
1 x Toslink Audio Line In
1 x Toslink Audio Line Out
2 x 5-pin
Miscellaneous
Additional Information:
X-Fi CMSS-3D
Enjoy realistic sound effects in games
X-Fi Crystalizer
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows Vista
Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Windows XP x64 or Media Center Edition
Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor or equivalent
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Rated by Cameron_O, July 17, 2008
good basic sound card, sturdy construction. It was very easy to install. I would not recommend this card for gameing or in combination with hi end speakers, but overall I am very satisfied.
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Rated by Kris_H, June 7, 2008
The card was easy as pie to install. At first, I thought something was wrong, since I was getting no sound, but a quick check in the settings revealed that I had to uncheck the "Automatically enable headphone settings" and "Automatically mute speakers" options. These only work when you use Intel HD Audio-compatible front audio.
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Rated by madeinedmundston, May 16, 2008
better than audigy but don't expect a lot from it in high end gaming!!! :(
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Rated by Scott_E, April 2, 2008
Don't waste your money, not a true x-fi card, it's fraudulent in my opinion, and I think NCIX should stop selling Creative products entirely. Read up before buying!
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Rated by spblue, March 13, 2008
This is an excellent choice in this price range. Optical in/out, mic jack and 4 speaker jacks. The sound quality is very good, I didn't notice any kind of interference like I was getting with my on-board sound card. Recommended.
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Rated by Joseph_W, February 15, 2008
This is a GREAT upgrade form the SoundMAX HD sound card on my mainboard. I woudl recomend ANY ONE who wants get rid of the crapy onboard sound to get this card. heck een if you have a soudn card still get this one if you have the PCI-e X1 slot
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Rated by Brandon_B, February 9, 2008
Great card! Was amazing at how much of a difference this card sounds compared to the onboard. Also freed up some of my processing speeds by specifying hardware. Also got it at a cheap price. Thanks NCIX!
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Rated by Claude_L, November 2, 2007
Being a low price OEM card I bought it as a test that turned well!
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Rated by Ropey, October 19, 2007
All in all, this is a good purchase. I wanted Front Panel Access and I get it in XP, just not in VISTA yet.
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Rated by Dominic_P, October 1, 2007
The first time I installed the card, I had to update my motherboard BIOS version. When I slotted in the card under the new BIOS, I lost all RAID Config. I just needed to recreate the RAID in the BIOS options and it was all fine.
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Rated by madeinedmundston, May 16, 2008
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