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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000) |
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Our Price - $64.99
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000)
The Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer sound card delivers faster audio performance and intense, realistic sound in all your games. Headphone surround sound is better too - so good, you will swear you are listening to multichannel speakers - and your games will sound richer as you hear all of the crisp, clear highs and bone-crushing lows you have been missing. It is Sound Blaster...on steroids.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000) Accessories
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000) Reviews
Good soundcard, decent price, decent drivers (especially compared to previous creative offerings)
I like how it can switch between gaming, audio creation and normal media mode. Each modes settings can be customized. The CMSS 3D is sweet in games and the crystalizer has good impact on my mp3s audio quality.
I'm bitter because I had to put this into my sisters computer to make way for a gigabit ethernet card because my new computers motherboard has craptastic onboard ethernet (30%+ cpu usage). So now I'm on onboard HD Audio (It's actually not half bad!). She's very happy with the soundcard (I bet she is! *snarls*)
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Great Product
First let me start by saying that when it works the sound produced by this card is much better than my onboard (Realtek) audio. The problem is Creative has horrible drivers and they refuse to address issues that have been there for over two years. The issue is quite simply their drivers are not compatible with Vista and Windows 7. Without getting into technical details their drivers don't install properly on the newer Windows. Some people are lucky enough to not notice any issues, but many do. Usually, they will cause a BSOD until you boot into safe mode and completely remove them. Workarounds are temporary at best. Unofficial drivers have been attempted but they reduce sound quality, so you might as well save money and use built in sound. I don't understand why Creative spends all this time and money creating great hardware, but can't be bothered to release proper drivers for it. Without working drivers, you're better off using whatever onboard sound your computer has.
BEWARE: Bought and installed X-Fi XtremeGamer in June. Unit did not work in December--verified by a state-licensed computer repair tech. Creative does not respond to my claims under (one year) warranty, and I quote: "Creative offers to you that hardware will be free from material defects ("Defect") in workmanship and material under normal use for a period of twelve (12) months from date of retail purchase by original end-user purchaser ("Warranty Period")."
Creative Labs makes it VERY difficult to make any warranty claim. Try finding a phone number on their website. Even email is difficult to find. This is because, and again I quote, "To obtain the fastest, most appropriate service for your Creative Product, you should first make use of Creative's on-line resources to diagnose and attempt to resolve the problem there."
My local computer tech says he replaces hundreds of sound cards every year in his business: "You'd be surprised how often they fail within a year." He has two large boxes of failed Soundblaster cards to back up his claim.
My previous Sound Blaster card lasted 3 years; current card only 6 months--at $80, a rather expensive mistake.
Hello, I purchased this card nearly a year ago and now find the right rear surround speaker stops emitting sound after maybe fourty five minutes...I'll give a guess that either the chip get buggy when warmed up or the 64bit OS is some how to blame. The 64 bit been an endless pain in the butt! Other wise great sound can be achieved with this card. I find myself always fiddling with the adjustments with each song.
this sound card is everything i expected and more.i purchased it, primarily, for gaming but also for music listening. in gaming the location of enemies by footsteps or other sounds is so exact it has to be experienced.you do have to work with the sound console to get the sound qualities that you want but once that is completed you got your self a serious card.for music listening this card is still at the top of its class with the proper software to allow a fair amount of listening adjustments. do yourself a favor and get some decent earphones, i use ath ad700's. do your self another favor and buy this card! that's all i got to say man.
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