No-compromise PC audio for gaming! The Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum - Fatal1ty Champion Series brings ultimate sound and connectivity to power gamers. Endorsed by the world's best... more
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Playback : 24-bit 96 kHz 7.1 - 109 dB 10 Hz to 46 kHz
Playback : 24-bit 192 kHz stereo - 109 dB 10 Hz to 88 kHz
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces:
1 x audio - SPDIF input/line-in/microphone - mini-phone 3.5mm
Audio - line-out - mini-phone 3.5mm
1 x audio - line-In - 4 PIN MPC
On internal drive : 1 x audio - line-In - RCA x 2
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 MIDI - input - 5 PIN mini-DIN
On internal drive : 1 x MIDI - output - 5 PIN mini-DIN
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
Manufacturer's product description
No-compromise PC audio for gaming! The Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum - Fatal1ty Champion 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.
Miscellaneous
Included Accessories: Remote control, 2 x batteries (AA), Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Platinum - Fatal1ty Champion Series I/O Drive
Cables Included:
2 x MIDI adapter cable
1 x audio adaptor
Package Type: Retail
Software / system requirements
Software: Drivers & Utilities
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista
Advantages: Great Dolby/DTS decoder, excellent sound quality and gaming audio Disadvantages: expensive
...This is the X-FiFatal1ty FPS endorsed by professional gamer Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. X-FiFatal1ty FPS also features a glowing Fatal1ty logo on the soundcard and drive bay(!!!!!!).Err, ok, moving on....
First up, whats included in the package. You get the card, a 5.25 inch drive bay with various audio inputs and outputs which I wil detail later, and a remote that can be used to make changes to volume and other functions, also mentioned later. The installation CD contains drivers and also the following: 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...
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Advantages: Under XP this is a great souncard for games and musicians. Disadvantages: Under Vista there have been issues.
...decision when looking for a new sound card.
There's a new kid on the block now, described by overclockers.co.uk as 'X-Fi reborn'. It's an Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 and the name suggests that an association has been made between Creative and another company to produce it. My bottom lip trembles to see this though because, if the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 is my card 'reborn' then I must have a card that cost an arm and a leg under a year ago, but that the industry sees as effectively dead.
The good news is that these reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. The CreativeSoundBlasterX-FiFatality FPS is still very much alive and kicking so long as it's running in Windows XP. As all of the functions including hardware acceleration are proving perfectly reliable in that OS, and as the Internet is filled with comparative tables to show...
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Advantages: Many features, high qaulity, overall good sound card! Disadvantages: None that I can think of
...I got this card as a birthday present some months ago and a good present it wass too!
Where to start...
Well the SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum has more features than you can shake a stick at! Just go to www.creative.com and look for it.
But from my experience here is what you get:
>Really high sound qaulity and support for analouge and digital 5.1 surround sound speaker rigs.
>A whole load of ports and sockets for pluging things into (It has a whole box of extra ports that firts in a drive bay)
>Some cool affects from echos to voice changers, I've had some great fun with those!
>Some very usefull bundeled software.
When I got everything out of the box there were so many bits I thaught "This is going to take ages" But a quick read through the quick start guide and everything was clear. I was installing it in a Compaq system...
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I got this as part of a bundle deal from ebuyer.com - it came free with a creative 7.1 fatality soundcard, but i understand they are worth in the region of £20-£25.
The headphones look stylish and sit very comfortably on your ears, completley... more
I bought the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music to complement my Grado SR325 + Creek OBH-1 Headphone Amplifier system, so I could enjoy the music at the best possible quality without having to endure the on-board sound card (although the nForce 680i HD... more
Ease of install
This is perhaps the best bit of all, installing the card is simple to a compatent user. It takes a while with all cables, and feeding them where you want them but once in, power on and install the lenghtly disk. The installation of the more