** New Pci-E Xfi Coming on may 22nd! **

[BloodyL]

Bring back the Gravis UltraSound phenomenon........

 

[MadMatty]

I cant replace the x-fi, id miss the eax game effects too much, although anoyingly eax is getting less and less supported in games for inbuilt software effects :|

 

[Talrinys]

I hope they crash and burn, i just lost a speaker due to my Fatality card :/

 

[dobbs2010]

I cant replace the x-fi, id miss the eax game effects too much, although anoyingly eax is getting less and less supported in games for inbuilt software effects :|

You don't lose EAX effects with an Asus Xonar.

 

[point decay]

never gonna buy another creative card...

 

[Caged]

The gamers choice for their good gamin' rig.

 

[lesz42]

another person thats NOT going to buy this bit of LAME hardware (X-fi Fatality owner ), once burned............

 

[MadMatty]

You don't lose EAX effects with an Asus Xonar.

Id rarther have the full hardware precision eax with the x-fi as apposed to the software driven near eax emulation of the xonar

 

[Monkeynut]

Even though they sound almost the same, and the ASUS does not have crap drivers?

 

[theforce]

Well i don't hope from Creative to burn in hell i hope that the Xonar will make them release something better than what they used so release for some time now.
That new card seems like a cheap version of the Xonar card.

 

[Xon]

Am I the only one that likes Creative?

My platinum X-Fi is perfect; no driver problems, eax is great, decoding of DD/DTS or output via spdif works brilliantly etc. I don't get the bashing!

 

[Minstadave]

Am I the only one that likes Creative?

My platinum X-Fi is perfect; no driver problems, eax is great, decoding of DD/DTS or output via spdif works brilliantly etc. I don't get the bashing!

Are you on Vista or XP?

 

[Xon]

Are you on Vista or XP?

XP; but the thing is I see bashing from people on XP as well.

 

[Monkeynut]

That's because those people are going over to Vista (except myself) and know their cards will break straight away.

 

[jasont]

My x-fi extreme music card this morning has finally got the better of me.im running vista 64,and xp 32.sometimes when i boot up its fine,sometimes when i game it pops and screeches.so am just about to order a xonar,i dont think r sell the x-fi as i would,nt want someone to go through the pain of owning such utter garbage.

 

[chaosophy]

Am I the only one that likes Creative?

My platinum X-Fi is perfect; no driver problems, eax is great, decoding of DD/DTS or output via spdif works brilliantly etc. I don't get the bashing!

I'm with you. I've had an X-Fi Elite Pro since launch, it's now in it's third mobo, has been used with XP x86/XP x64/Vista x64 with 1GB/2GB/4GB of ram with no major problems.

I've had a few oddities with it (but no more than Windows, other bits of h/w and drivers have given me over the years) and do agree Creative's drivers and release schedule could be better but nothing that's made me totally give up on it and want to replace it.

Not saying it's perfect for everyone, as it's obviously not from seeing all the issues people on the net are having with them, just that it's never been anywhere near as bad for me.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Don't think I'll be bothering with these, my elite pro still works and has superior connectivity (to this model).
I like the shield and the pci-e connector though. I wonder if it's just a bridge or a new chip.

 

[Monkeynut]

Since this is still X-Fi 1, I wonder if creative do actually have an X-Fi 2 upcoming?

 

[Phatzy]

the card looks a tad bit like a extreme audio (pci-x) with plastic to cover it.

 

[musx64]

thank you, but no thank you - next sound card will be a Asus Xonar