Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality Sound Card
Get the fastest performance and the most intense, realistic audio in your games
Designed specifically for gamers, the Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card delivers the fastest audio performance and the most intense, realistic sound in all your games. Plus it features X-RAM for an even bigger quality and performance boost in games with X-RAM support. It's Sound Blaster...on steroids!
XTREME FIDELITY GAMING
Get the speed you need when every second counts
Win big with a powerful, completely new audio processing engine that boosts real game performance by up to 15% over motherboard audio and still gives you the fullest audio effects possible!
Boost performance even further in games with X-RAM support
Free up system memory and improve overall gaming audio performance in game titles like QUAKE 4, Battlefield 2, Prey and others that take advantage of X-RAM.
Hear your enemies before they find you
Don't let them sneak up behind you. X-Fi CMSS®-3D Headphone creates nine virtual speakers over stereo headphones for positional audio that's so accurate you can actually locate enemies by sound. Multichannel speakers are even better with audio cues that let you hear exactly where they are even between speakers.
Immerse yourself in a new dimension of sound
Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room. Take reality to the next level with EAX® ADVANCED HD™ sound effects in games.
Get lost in the details
Hear crisp, sharp gunshots and deep, booming explosions. X-Fi Crystalizer™ revitalizes your compressed game sounds, bringing out the highs and lows for the most intense gaming experience ever.
XTREME FIDELITY ENTERTAINMENT
Restore the details and vibrance to your music and movies
X-Fi Crystalizer repairs the damage that MP3 and WMA compression causes and intelligently enhances high and low frequencies for cleaner music playback and more realistic movie sound.
Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound
X-Fi CMSS-3D matches the sound to your headphones or multichannel speakers and positions specific audio elements - such as voice in the center and ambient sounds in surrounding channels, so your music and movies sound more alive.
Enjoy the ultimate PC movie experience with the latest cinematic technologies
The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card delivers THX® certified surround sound and includes Cyberlink's PowerDVD software with DTS™ and Dolby Digital®-EX decoding via free download for an unbeatable DVD movie watching experience. (Internet connection is required)
XTREME FIDELITY AUDIO CREATION
Get the most advanced features and effects for music and audio creation available in a consumer solution.
Near transparent conversion to and from any resolution
Digital-matched recording capabilities in resolutions from 44.1kHz to 96kHz
ASIO support with as low as one millisecond latency
Up to eight different hardware effects
24-bit SoundFont® sampling, and 3D MIDI
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Detailed Features
Specifications
24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs: 96kHz sample rate
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources: 96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources: 192kHz to stereo output
16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
ASIO 2.0 support: 16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring
Enhanced SoundFont support: Up to 24-bit resolution
X-RAM: 64MB
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted): Stereo Output 109dB
Front and Rear Channels 109dB
Center, Subwoofer and Side Channels 109dB
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (20kHz Low-pass filter): 0.004%
Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input ): 10Hz to 46kHz
Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/192kHz input): 10Hz to 88kHz (Stereo only)
Speaker and Headphone connections: Stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks)
Flexijack: Line In / Microphone In / Digital Out¹ / Digital I/O² via shared 3.5mm mini jack
Auxiliary Line level Input: 4-pin Molex connector
I/O Console connector: For linking to the Sound Blaster X-Fi I/O Console (upgrade option)
A Closer Look
Minimum System Requirements
Genuine Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz, AMD® 1 GHz processor or faster
Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Window XP Pro x64
256MB RAM
600MB of free hard disk space
Available PCI 2.1 slot for the audio card
CD-ROM/CD-RW or CD/DVD-ROM required for software installation
Graphics card with DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® compliant 3D graphics accelerator
Internet connection is required to obtain free PowerDVD players with Dolby® Digital and DTS™ decoding
Latest Owner Reviews
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REVIEW BY: XnyeHELO Reviewed
Mar 12, 2008
I picked this card up about two weeks ago and so far im very pleased. When playing crysis I gained 9 frames per second vs. onboard audio. I gave value a 4 because of the price but overall this is a very good sound card
REVIEW BY: kit-Karama Reviewed
Feb 22, 2008
I gave ''Value'' 3 stars, because not many of us have 140 dollars to drop on a sound card when any will do for the average user. However, I'm a musician and I'm a gamer and a music enthusiest.
Imagine this: Let's say you're listening to 'scream' metal. For the first time... EVER... you can understand the singer. Amazing? Honestly, it's to be expected with this kind of technology. I'm not kidding when I say this will make old crappy speakers sound amazing. Freeing up your system resources with on-board audio ram built into the card helps a lot, too. Finally, it asks you ''Do you wish to auto-update your drivers and hardware?'' and retreives the drivers for your Operating System without doing anything more than clicking, ''Yes!'' How easy is that?
Music sounds insanely good. Games run better (higher frame rates on the latest stuff!) because the card has onboard dedicated ram. There are inputs for music creators AND tons of outputs, plus its gold plated (Lan party abuse!)
REVIEW BY: pbnerd Reviewed
Jan 29, 2008
Overall I am pleased, I am unsure how well a better head set would improve the performance. I would like better mic control, as it is important to not get excess feed back over ventrilo during matches. Basically our whole clan runs these cards, a more realistic mic test feature would be an improvement as would a package deal on recommended headset. Creatives product is directly affected by what you plug into it, they should take this into account. Not many people can let a speaker set rip while gaming, wives don't want to hear 'fire in the hole' at full volume.
REVIEW BY: JBass Reviewed
Dec 10, 2007
My dad talked me into ordering this for his new rig I built. I have a GeForce 680i LT SLI motherboard with 7.1 surround. I play all the same games as him. so far I can not tell a difference in my games or music. We did play some games with the X-FI ''specail'' sounds but I still did not notice a difference. I say dont waste your money but other people sware this card is ''special''. I say if your smart enough to install a sound card you smart enough to mess with a equilizer in Windows Media Player or Winamp. I can not tell any difference in games. I'm huge gamer and play them all. I Think this product is more for bragging rights if there is such a thing.
REVIEW BY: Guardian_O Reviewed
Apr 05, 2007
This is different from the basic Xtreme Gamer card in three ways:
1) A full-on MIDI socket on the card.
2) Gold-plated plugs and bracket.
3) Fatal1ty namesake.
The only one that should be used in your decision is the MIDI socket, as it allows musician/gamers to enjoy their gaming sound, while also allowing their MIDI software to receive much better samples than would otherwise be possible with the smaller plugs.
So, if you're either obsessed with gold/Fatal1ty products or a musician with a gaming itch, this is fine. Otherwise, just get the normal Xtreme Gamer and save yourself a bunch.
If you're not even a gamer, and just like to listen to music, then get the Xtreme Audio, which costs less because it doesn't have all the nice things for gaming.
Manufactured by:
Creative Labs Mfg Part No:
70SB046A00000 UPC No:
054651129023 Box Size:
( Length: 10, Width: 15, Depth: 3 )
Shipping Weight:
1.4000 pound(s)
Limited Warranty:
12 months parts;
12 months labor
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Limited Warranty: A full text version of the limited warranty
may be obtained by mailing a self addressed, stamped envelope to the
address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
C44-3336
