This download is a beta driver for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi. It is not fully tested. This download provides full OpenAL 1.1 support for gamers. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

Today's tested kit is a 2 Gigabyte kit as stated from patriot. The kit despite it's high capacity has some pretty awesome timings. It's 667 MHz DDR2 memory that utilize a cool 4-4-4 timing with a 1T command rate. Does that sound a bit to geek for you ? No worries we'll explain what it all means.

An area that concerns most of the people here is the cooling of their card. More speed means more heat, so companies are trying to find ways to cool down the cards enough to allow them to work efficiently without problems (as much as possible :-P). Users though, have another tendency now. To overclock their cards as much as possible, which that turns out even more heat! Companies are trying to battle that with heat pipes, heat exhaust systems and more airflow.