Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound Card ( 70SB079000000 )

Average customer rating: 3.0

NOT 100% COMPATIBLE WITH VISTA
If only you could install the updates
Not Vista ready
Caveat emptor...
Nice!

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound Card ( 70SB079000000 )

Manufacturer: Creative Labs
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000IZC0GO

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Product Description

Add the 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. 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. 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. Put on your headphones and X-Fi technology moves the sound away from your ears into the space around you. You'll feel like you're sitting in with your favorite band or in the best seat at the movie theater. Connectivity - Speaker and Headphone connections for stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks) Line In / Microphone In / Digital Out / Digital I/O (shared 3.5mm FlexiJack) Auxiliary Line level Input (via 4-pin Molex connector) Intel HD Audio Compatible Front Panel Header (2x5pin) System Requirements - Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2, x64 Edition or Media Center Edition), Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor or equivalent, Available PCI 2.1 slot, 256MB RAM, 600MB of free hard disk space, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, Internet connection to update PowerDVD software

Customer Reviews:

NOT 100% COMPATIBLE WITH VISTA.......2007-06-09

THIS CARD SOUND WITH WINDOWS VISTA, BUT THEIR FEATURES NOT WORK, YOU DON'T OBTEIN ALL POWER OF THIS CARD IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS VISTA. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WASTE YOUR MONEY, DON'T BUY THIS CARD.

If only you could install the updates.......2007-05-18

I got this my old sound card could not work on Vista, but although this is on the Vista list of compatible hardware you might as well use your motherboard sound than buy this card thinking it works on Vista.
Sure, you get a driver for Vista on the Creative site, but the software doesn't work! I am going back to xp and my turtle beach card and great software and donate my x-fi to the goodwill. Creative admits that the card is not Vista compatible ("if it doesn't say so on the box, it is not compatible"). All you get is sound, no mixer or console, and it will not work with recording software such as Total Recorder on Vista. And with their loopy update it won't install on xp.

Not Vista ready.......2007-04-16

This card works in Vista if you download the Vista driver from Creative's website; however, none of the Creative applications work at all. I expect that this will be fixed in the future but who knows how long that will take.

The Digital I/O module is a good add-on. See my review there for installation instructions.

Caveat emptor..........2007-04-10

Despite being sold as an X-Fi card, this particular model does not use the X-Fi chipset. In fact it uses a variation of the Audigy 2 SE chipset. This is further confirmed by the fact that this card uses different drivers than the rest of the X-Fi line, and is not recognized as an X-Fi card in games. The main problem with this is you cannot uses any of the X-Fi features in games like you would expect. Try using this card in Battlefield 2142 and you will see what I mean.

Creative Labs should be ashamed of themselves for this blatant act of marketing fraud. When someone buys a Ferrari, they are expecting to get a Ferrari, not a Honda with a Ferrari emblem on the front. But that is exactly what Creative Labs has done here. They are marketing this sound card as a high-end brand (X-Fi) when it is really a crippled version of the previous product line (SE model Audigy). They must have a glut of unsold chips and they thought they could pull a fast one on consumers with this cheap card.

I for one will be very cautious before I consider purchasing Creative Labs products in the future. Buyer beware!

Nice!.......2007-04-09

Nice sound and ease of use. Set it so you can access it from your desktop and your changes are at your finger tips. As a blind person I'd say get it for it's great sound and accessibilty. Yeah!

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