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Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI-e
Info: Creative
Price: $65.46
When the original X-Fi came out it was the first major new architectural change for Creative and for sound cards in years. It really was a great day for gamers and music lovers. The X-Fi offered so many improvements over the Audigy series, it wasnt funny, new EAX, new Crystallizer, new driver model, new black PCB. I mean, I still laughed, but that was about the XRAM. There were also major improvements in the architecture too, including a nearly flawless sample-rate conversion engine, and seemingly limitless processing power. It blew the DACs off the Audigy series, hands down.
A case in point is todays specimen, the X-Fi PCIe XtremeAudio. Creative showed this X-Fi at last years CES (that's 2006) sporting the PCI Express. The delays from then until now, about 12 months, were officially acknowledged as technical issues relating to the PCI Express bus itself.
And its their most inexpensive X-Fi.
This X-Fi also has the same basic set of features that youll find in all other X-Fis, namely the 24-bit, 96KHz record and playback, the Crystalizer, 7.1 surround sound, and the CMSS3D. It just strikes me a bit odd that Creative would rev the APU and not make such a big deal about it. At least stick PCIe on their top of the line Fatal1ty boards?
Perhaps theres something wrong with it? Well, don't let the skillfully androgynous chick on the box fool you. Lets read on and find out what's really under the, er, hood.
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