Designed to meet the performance demands of the world's best-known professional gamer, Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS sound card... more
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Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty™ sound card provides stunning 109dB SNR audio quality accelerates gaming performance and includes 64MB of on-board X-RAM for high performance gaming. With support for EAX® ADVANCED HD™ 5.0 the latest version of the EAX Environmental Audio standard the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty card utilizes X-Fi CMSS 3D technology for stunning audio realism over headphones in LAN gaming. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty features a convenient front-facing internal drive bay for easy connectivity plus the X-Fi IR remote to easily access and control all digital entertainment and to control the X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer X-Fi CMSS 3D 3DMIDI and EAX. In addition to providing outstanding gaming performance the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty includes all of the standard features application software power and performance capabilities of the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum and Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic.A completely re-engineered game audio processing engine utilizing Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor allows Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty to deliver the fastest gaming performance ever seen providing more than a 15% performance boost over motherboard audio solutions while simultaneously delivering full audio effects!X-RAM allows developers to deliver even higher quality audio samples that can be loaded into dedicated audio RAM rather than system RAM which would affect overall performance. In certain implementations it can further boost performance beyond the standard Sound Blaster X-Fi technology.Whether you use headphones or speakers you'll know exactly where your enemies are by utilizing advanced technology for amazing positional gaming audio. With headphones X-Fi CMSS-3D externalizes the audio by creating ten virtual speakers around you above you and below you for an experience that's so real you'll forget you're wearing headphones. When using speakers X-Fi CMSS-3D uses virtual positions to place sounds anywhere around you so your gaming audio is no longer restricted by the number or placement of your speakers. Now you can enjoy the most accurate gaming surround sound ever!Sound Blaster X-Fi delivers the most life-like audio environments ever and for the first time it can do so while providing maximum performance! Features like 128 voice support EAX MacroFX EAX PurePath & Environment FlexiFX set a new standard for EAX and realism available in game audio.Experience incredible audio with THX certified quality and unbeatable movie sound with DTS-ES™ and Dolby® Digital EX decoding!Utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor you'll get the most advanced features and effects of any audio processor for music and audio creation currently available delivering pristine audio plalyback quality. The Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor features a near transparent SRC engine that converts to and from any resolution at 136dB THD+N and also provides digital-matched recording capabilities in resolutions from 44.1kHz to 96kHz. You'll also get support for ASIO recordings with latency as low as one millisecond up to eight different hardware effects 24-bit SoundFont® sampling and 3D MIDI for amazing flexibility and recording results. 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs: 96kHz sampling 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 FlexiJack: 3-in-1 function (Digital I/O / Line In / Microphone) via 3.50mm mini jack Line level out (Front / Rear / Side / Center / Subwoofer): 3.50mm mini jacks Coaxial SPDIF input and output: Two RCA jacks Auxiliary input: Two RCA jacks Optical SPDIF input and output: Two optical connectors MIDI input and output: Two mini MIDI female connectors Headphone output and volume control: 6.35 mm (1/4-inch) stereo jack Shared line-level analog Line/Microphone input: 6.35 mm (1/4-inch) stereo jack
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!
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!
Series brings ultimate sound and connectivity to power gamers. Endorsed by the world's best known pro gamer, it combines the most powerful sound card available with an I/O Drive module for remote control and convenient connectivity to a wide range of analog, digital and MIDI devices. Creative's X-Fi chip offloads audio processing from the CPU, accelerating Direct X, OpenAL and EAX 5.0 games and providing realistic cinematic audio without impacting frame rates, with 64MB of X-Ram for fast loading of high-quality sounds. X-Fi CMSS-3D introduces a new era in audio, providing ultra-realistic surround sound over normal stereo headphones for immersive LAN or online gaming.
Series brings ultimate sound and connectivity to power gamers. Endorsed by the world's best known pro gamer, it combines the most powerful sound card available with an I/O Drive module for remote control and convenient connectivity to a wide range of analog, digital and MIDI devices. Creative's X-Fi chip offloads audio processing from the CPU, accelerating Direct X, OpenAL and EAX 5.0 games and providing realistic cinematic audio without impacting frame rates, with 64MB of X-Ram for fast loading of high-quality sounds. X-Fi CMSS-3D introduces a new era in audio, providing ultra-realistic surround sound over normal stereo headphones for immersive LAN or online gaming.
Series brings ultimate sound and connectivity to power gamers. Endorsed by the world's best known pro gamer, it combines the most powerful sound card available with an I/O Drive module for remote control and convenient connectivity to a wide range of analog, digital and MIDI devices. Creative's X-Fi chip offloads audio processing from the CPU, accelerating Direct X, OpenAL and EAX 5.0 games and providing realistic cinematic audio without impacting frame rates, with 64MB of X-Ram for fast loading of high-quality sounds. X-Fi CMSS-3D introduces a new era in audio, providing ultra-realistic surround sound over normal stereo headphones for immersive LAN or online gaming.
sound card delivers a 7.1-channel sound power to propel you into the heart of your favourite games. Tested by Fala1ty, one of the best professional gamers in the world, this card deserves to show off its talents!Thanks to its X-Fi chip, this card from Creative doesn't use the microprocessor to deal with sound, which allows DirectX games to benefit from extra speed, making them even more realistic!With the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound card, you will enter a whole new world of video gaming!
Advantages: Under XP this is a great souncard for games and musicians. Disadvantages: Under Vista there have been issues.
The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality sound card was the best piece of equipment I could afford to buy when I made my latest PC. I'd gone for expensive and high-quality components because I use my machine for gaming. Gaming drives hardware manufacturers because ever more ambitious and demanding games software requires ever more powerful hardware. The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality has 'XRAM' on-board that can take the load of your processor ... ...delighted to find that the Creative X-Fi Fatality could add some great effects to inputs in real time. These included chorus, reverb, digital delay, flanger and chorus. Not only that but an electric guitar could be grunged up a treat with distortion. It was even possible to engage combinations of these effects.
Finally, on the recording side still, there's a front panel into which a whole variety of devices might be connected via phono leads, optical ...
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Advantages: Great Dolby/DTS decoder, excellent sound quality and gaming audio Disadvantages: expensive
...Doom3 EAX patch, Audio Console, Creative MediaSource & DVD-Audio Player, DTS Neo:6, Karaoke Player, Smart Recorder, SoundFont Bank Manager, THX Setup Console, Vienna SoundFont Studio, Console Launcher, Volume Panel, WaveStudio, Creative Media Toolbox, Creative Diagnostics. Drivers and software can be autoupdated via the creative website.
Creative soundcards have had problems with the quality of their 44.1 kHz resampling which added noticeable distortion. ... ...Creative, Entertainment, and Game. Audio Creative is very complex whereas Entertainment is much more simple and user friendly. Game is even simpler and has a few less features but performs better. Each mode has a different configuration, so settings in one mode does not alter settings in another mode. In short, game mode has more EAX support, all the way upto EAX 5.0, Audio Creation has no CMSS 3D but has ASIO 2.0 direct monitoring and Entertainment ...
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Features: EAX ADVANCED HD, Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS)
Compliant Standards: EAX ADVANCED HD
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces:
Audio - line-out - mini-phone 3.5mm
1 x audio - line-In - 4 PIN MPC
1 x audio - SPDIF input/line-in/microphone - mini-phone 3.5mm
On internal drive : 1 x audio - SPDIF input - RCA
On internal drive : 1 x audio - SPDIF output - RCA
On internal drive : 1 x audio - SPDIF input - TOSLINK
On internal drive : 1 x audio - SPDIF output - TOSLINK
On internal drive : 1 x headphones - output - phone stereo 6.25 mm
On internal drive : 1 x audio - line-in/microphone - phone stereo 6.25 mm
Compatible Slots: 1 x PCI
Compatible Bays: 1 x front accessible - 5.25" x 1/2H
Miscellaneous
Included Accessories: Remote control, internal drive
Manufacturer's product description
Designed to meet the performance demands of the world's best-known professional gamer, Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS sound card provides stunning 109dB SNR audio quality, accelerates gaming performance and includes 64MB of on-board X-RAM for high performance gaming. With support for EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0, the latest version of the EAX Environmental Audio standard, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS card utilizes X-Fi CMSS 3D technology for stunning audio realism over headphones in LAN gaming. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS features a convenient front-facing internal drive bay for easy connectivity, plus the X-Fi IR remote to easily access and control all digital entertainment, and to control the X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer, X-Fi CMSS 3D, 3DMIDI and EAX. In addition to providing outstanding gaming performance, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS includes all of the standard features, application software, power and performance capabilities of the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum and Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic.
Software / system requirements
Software: Drivers & Utilities
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Peripheral / Interface Devices: CD-ROM, PCI slot
System Requirements Details: Windows XP SP2 - Pentium III - 1 GHz - RAM 256 MB - HD 600 MB
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