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| Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card ( 70SB073A00000 ) |
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List Price: $126.76
Our Price: $85.99
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Manufacturer: Creative Labs
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Creative Labs
EAN: 0054651136052
Feature: Device Type - Sound card
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Creative Labs
Manufacturer: Creative Labs
Model: 70SB073A00000
Publisher: Creative Labs
Studio: Creative Labs
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Device Type - Sound card
Interface Type - PCI
Localization - English
Sound Output Mode - 7.1
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Editorial Reviews:
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There's so much focus on video and graphics when it comes to games. But that's only part of the experience. What if you couldn't hear the blasts, bombs, explosions, tackles, and grunts? That's why your available PCI slot in your desktop needs this Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme sound card for PCI. The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card delivers faster audio performance and intense, realistic sound in all your games. Headphone surround sound is better too?so good, you'll swear you're listening to multichannel speakers?and your games will sound richer as you hear all of the crisp, clear highs and bone-crushing lows you've been missing. Revitalize your compressed game sounds with X-Fi Crystalizer and hear crisp, sharp gunshots and deep, booming explosions for the most intense gaming experience ever 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 Delivers THX certified surround sound and includes Cyberlink PowerDVD software with DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding via free download for an unbeatable DVD movie watching experience 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 A dedicated audio creation mode supports near transparent conversion between any resolutions, digital-matched recording, low-latency ASIO support and more
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Customer Rating:
Summary: High ROI
Comment: For such a reasonable price, and ease of installation (to Vista-32, no less), this sound card is sensational. This is the best ROI I have ever experienced in a hardware product. Intuitive directions and the software installation wizard made the entire process clock in at about 30 minutes.
The sound improvement from motherboard to 5.1 is absolutely astounding!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lots of promises, not much to back it up
Comment: This card simply does not perform to it's product specifications and marketing claims. This can mostly be attributed to the terrible sound drivers that cause a multitude of problems. Such problems include random sound distortions, popping, broken microphone input etc. Yes that's right this XtremeGamer sound card does not currently feature working support for microphones. Customer support is also rather terrible so no one on the support forums has received any support for these problems. Do yourself a favor and look towards the Auzentech or BlueGear range of sound cards, as they actually function.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hit or Miss
Comment: I'm giving this item two stars since the majority of reviews have liked the product. However, I could not get the system to recognize the card in either of my two open PCI slots. Setup simply stated "no SB product detected" and immediately closed. Amazon only offers a refund on this type of product and not an exchange so there's no way to know it was a bad card or indicative of the line as a whole. Given the fair number of reviews citing compatibility issues I'd have to say this was most likely the cause.
The main problem with the board, though, is it's almost total lack of documentation. The only instructions including on the package is a basic quick start guide. No troubleshooting information whatsoever is provided out of the box. If you do have a problem, there's almost no way to even begin to know where to check. If there had a been more documentation, I would have spent more time working on the issue.
The setup program also could have offered additional options when it did not see the card. This is actually a rather silly oversight on Creative's behalf. Why would I put an SB disc into the machine and try to install drivers if I didn't actually have an SB product? The logical conclusion is that I did install the hardware but something is wrong. Rather than simply closing the setup program should provided suggestions or at least directed me to a troubleshooting guide.
Bottom line: it's a generally well reviewed card when it installs correctly. But you are taking a chance it won't work in your system.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Sound Card
Comment: I came through this card while I was checking on Amazon about Creative products, and after reading the reviews, I decided to order one, after few days I received it, was surprised that the card looked kind of small and nothing special, so I installed it, and it was easy to install took me just few minutes, after that I tried to test it, I am at the time been using headphones and the results were fantastic, the sound is clear and the bass and treble are high. Can't wait to try it with 5.1 system. Now have my headphones on all the time :)
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Summary: known issue with many games, file name ha20x2k.sys
Comment: after many crashes and calling dell and reading my error log and game web site's ,i found out it is the creative lab driver "ha20x3k.sys" was the problem. creative has not fixed the driver yet and the file is a known issue. june 1 2008
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