Creative Technology Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio

The Creative Technology Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio card is just perfect for better sound. Before I was using boring motherboard audio but as soon as I added this card I could hear the difference and now i play all my dvd and cd on computer as they sound a lot lot better than on a dull CD player. And is came with a load of software to expand the sound even further such as Bass boost, Crystaliser, 3D effects and so many more. Such a good sound card from the make 'Creative.'

This is a very good desktop PC soundcard.It has recently been discontinued by Creative Labs at the end of 2007.If you buy an OEM version of this type of X-FI make sure you get the Drivers and Software disk with the soundcard.People have been having a lot of compatibility problems using this sound card with Vista,the only Vista drivers available are downloaded from the Creative website.Creative do have an auto drivers update system on their support web page but it does not yet work with Vista,so if you use this X-FI XtremeMusic with vista you have to manually download the drivers,as their are so many different variations of X-FI cards and operating systems it is easy for a new computer user to download the wrong drivers.The Vista drivers from the Creative website does not give you all the applications that you get on the retail drivers cd.There is no THX console in the Vista down-loadable drivers from the Creative website and you only really get the very basic options to play around with the X-FI features IE the Crystalizer which is the main selling point of these X-FI's.You do get a speaker set up options page if you use a surround sound 5.1 creative speaker set,but again it's a simplified version.For anyone using this XtremeMusic X-FI or any other X-FI sound card with Vista the best course of action is to buy the official Vista drivers disk from the online Creative Eshop which cost's about £2.00 so it is well worth buying as you get the full software suite and compatible Vista 32bit and 64bit drivers.If you do have any problems trying to get one of these XtremeMusic X-FI soundcards working or any type of X-FI soundcard,You can go to the Creative online Forums where there is a lot of info from fellow X-FI users.If you cannot find an answer to your problem,register on the site and make a post asking for help there are a lot of very helpful X-FI users who will help you.At the end of the day if you manage to get one of these XtremeMusic X-FI cards working ok you will be happy with the sound it produces in both movies and PC games.For the average PC user who just wants to plug in and forget it's a good first choice for a decent fairly priced soundcard.DONOT pay over £45 for one of the OEM versions.Try and buy a second hand used retail version with the retail creative box so you know it was originally bought as a retail version.As these are now discontinued you may get lucky and find an online PC parts shop selling off old or end of line stock for a fair price.I've seen brand new retail versions for £55 which is not bad but for an extra £30 you could buy the X-FI Fatal1ty Pro sound card with the 64mb of XRam on board,these are the higher spec X-FI cards,the XtremeMusic do not have the onboard 64mb XRam memory.Good luck and read the creative forums all your questions are already answered there.

Superb card, immense functionality, easy to configure, just a shame that the Dell 5650 speakers are not up to the job!

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i like the fact there is absoloutley no hiss or static from the sound card even at full volume.

Recording Quality is Ever so slightly better but not too much difference to any other sound blaster audigy

great item

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Great technology. Updated from Audigy as drivers difficult to update. The audio converter is great fun and creates superb sound. £20 on Ebay - what a bargain. Buy one!

easy to install and download soft ware recieved quicker than expected and well rapped for transportation well satisfied

Useful upgrade as it has Vista drivers available (x86 and x64). I had a motherboard with an old AC-97 audio chipset that wasn't supported in Vista so this was just what I needed.