I'm trying to decide between a 9800gt 1 gb green edition for physx or a x-fi titanium fatal1ty for my rig. Been mulling it over for the last 4 weeks and still can't decide. I really like the physx in batman but it's only 1 game, and adding that 9800gt will just make airflow even worse considering both 5870's are scrunched together. While the x-fi will improve sound quality, I find the current Soundmax/pseudo X-Fi on the rampage pretty decent so far. I know I'm going to get 1 or the other to finish the rig off, just can't decide.
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Physics X - ... A few questions...
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If your serious about gaming tho the X-Fi is the better choice by a margin...
Xonar is good if you spend most of the time listening to music or watching movies tho.
I wouldn't bother spending money on a GPU for physx atm theres far too few games that need it and if/when more games with better physx useage come out you may need a faster GPU for physx.
Xonar is good if you spend most of the time listening to music or watching movies tho.
I wouldn't bother spending money on a GPU for physx atm theres far too few games that need it and if/when more games with better physx useage come out you may need a faster GPU for physx.
Xfi offers little in terms of audio quality over a Xonar in newer games since they don't use EAX any more which was the key selling point for Xfi.
I migrated from an Xfi to Xonar and will never look back and I am a serious gamer...there is no performance difference, there is a significant audio clarity gain from the Xonar.
Since EX is less common as newer games come out you may as well get a higher fidelity audio card that does everything at higher precision and has better drivers to boot.
I migrated from an Xfi to Xonar and will never look back and I am a serious gamer...there is no performance difference, there is a significant audio clarity gain from the Xonar.
Since EX is less common as newer games come out you may as well get a higher fidelity audio card that does everything at higher precision and has better drivers to boot.
EAX is one selling point... the X-Fi also has far better surround to headphone reproduction for gaming useage (if you know how to set it up correctly and care about that) also the X-Fi is often good for as much as 5% (in some cases 15%) higher fps over the xonar in games (if you really care about that either).
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PhysX is a great idea, just poorly implemented, as it only does effects rather than the expirance as a whole
would I buy a Nvida card for physicX ...no-because I can't atm and its not worth the investment at the moment
what about future ? maybe not open physics
would I buy a Nvida card for physicX ...no-because I can't atm and its not worth the investment at the moment
what about future ? maybe not open physics
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Hmm...yeah was considering the Xonar...I assume ye are referring to the D2X. And since I'm using a set of aego m's they would probably do them justice. Then again, at some point I am going to get a decent set of headphones and I hear combined with X-Fi's CMS-3d gives a decent pseudo 5.1 experience.
I'd say I spent about the same amount of time gaming as watching movies, and listen to very little music. So, still not sure what to go for.
How is the Xonar with Windows 7 from a driver point of view ? I've heard Creative finally got their act together with drivers since they launched their pci-e range of cards.
I'd say I spent about the same amount of time gaming as watching movies, and listen to very little music. So, still not sure what to go for.
How is the Xonar with Windows 7 from a driver point of view ? I've heard Creative finally got their act together with drivers since they launched their pci-e range of cards.
Your kinda stuck between the 2 then... the Xonar does great dolby, etc. surround reproduction from movies to headphone mode... but it simply can't touch the X-Fi for surround audio reproduction on headphones in games, especially games that do use EAX, etc. but even in games that only use stereo panning it does an excellent job. While the X-Fi does do very good headphone mode from movies it can't touch the Xonar in this department partly due to the better sound quality on the Xonar from movies (much more natural full sound, compared to the more "processed"*, compressed sound on the X-Fi).
* Even with all the enhancements off like crystaliser the X-Fi still has a colder more clinical sound compared to the richer fuller sound of the Xonar in music and movies.
* Even with all the enhancements off like crystaliser the X-Fi still has a colder more clinical sound compared to the richer fuller sound of the Xonar in music and movies.
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