Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer

Traducer · 12 May 2007 at 23:43

Amazing piece of kit, makes any song a good song. Brilliant.

squiffy · 12 May 2007 at 23:45

smsmasters said:
CMSS3D is good for gaming and positional sound.

lol no it just creates a bipole like effect from fronts, if you want positional audio go muti-speaker.

Tombo · 13 May 2007 at 02:22

squiffy said:
Go for the OEM, you still get CD and case badge with it. Just paying for box.

And actually getting a replacement if your card breaks.

squiffy · 13 May 2007 at 10:26

Tombo said:
And actually getting a replacement if your card breaks.

OEM still has a warranty.

smsmasters · 14 May 2007 at 00:43

squiffy said:
lol no it just creates a bipole like effect from fronts, if you want positional audio go muti-speaker.

Have you even tried gaming with head/earphones on with CMSS3D on? I think you'll be suprised how good it works at positional sound.

Plasmoid · 14 May 2007 at 01:39

CMSS3d is a god send when you have a 5.1 surround sound game a 7.1 surround sound system. Not only makes the extra speakers works, makes em not just clones of other ones.

For music, its pretty iffy. Matter of taste. Its not going to sound like intended at all, but it might sound better to you.

I really like the 24 bit crystalizer. Its great if you have low bitrate mp3's that have their range mangled. Its pretty good on cd's too but if you already have a good copy of a song its going to come out worse. Again a matter of taste, but i find it really helps with headphones.

Tombo · 14 May 2007 at 02:56

squiffy said:
OEM still has a warranty.

They don't honour it very well.