Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional & Champion

The folks at Creative Technology announced the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series and PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound cards. Creative will equip the world's best professional PC gamers, who are now competing in the Championship Gaming Series (CGS), with the new PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series, the official sound card of the CGS.

Same cards, but definitely a snazzy design.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series

Priced at S$219.00, the PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series features Dolby Digital encoding, for single-cable connection to home theater systems. The card leverages the power of the X-Fi processor optimized for PCI Express to deliver accelerated audio for improved game performance, with EAX 5.0 effects and 3D positional audio. The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series also improves voice chat clarity in online games.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

Priced at S$299.00, the new PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound card includes all of the features of the PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series, plus an internal I/O drive for quick front panel connection to headphones and headsets. This internal I/O drive design offers the choice of placement in either a 3.5" or 5.25" drive bay. The 3.5" drive features mic-in and headphone-out connections. This drive slides inside the 5.25" drive, which adds RCA line-in connections.

The novelties also feature:

• Creative X-Fi processor specifically designed for high-speed PCI Express slots in modern PCs.
• X-Fi Crystalizer technology.
• X-Fi CMSS-3D technology, to create virtual surround sound through speakers or headphones in games or music.
• Dolby Digital support for compelling 5.1 surround sound through a home theater system.
• Creative ALchemy to restore EAX and surround sound in DirectSound game titles running under Vista.
• Certified UAA compliance for maximum Windows Vista compatibility.
• X-RAM dedicated audio memory to boost performance in select games.
• THX Certified surround sound for cinematic movie audio playback.
• PowerDVD software with DTS-ES and Dolby Digital-EX decoding.
• 24-bit audio quality and 109db SNR audio clarity.
• ASIO recording support with latency as low as one millisecond with minimal CPU load.

The PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card will be available in Singapore late in June for SG$219. The PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound card will be available late in July 2008 for SG$299.