Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum - Fatal1ty Champion Series

Advantages: Great Dolby/DTS decoder, excellent sound quality and gaming audio
Disadvantages: expensive

...This is the X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS endorsed by professional gamer Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. X-Fi Fatal1ty 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... Read review

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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 Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality 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... Read review

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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 Sound Blaster 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... Read review

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