X-Fi Advice!

Mista.Gee said:
I've always purchased Retail products, always worth that little extra to protect your investment.

Defenitly going for the Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeGamer Retail Version after researching into this.
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ha ha ha. What exactly do retail products give you over a OEM? A fancy box? Instructions? Screws.

For most things you don't need OEM, soundcards, hard drives, optical drives, even video cards.

You can save quite a bit of money with OEM products, after all you probably have the cables already and only need the item itself.
 
squiffy said:
ha ha ha. What exactly do retail products give you over a OEM? A fancy box? Instructions? Screws.

For most things you don't need OEM, soundcards, hard drives, optical drives, even video cards.

You can save quite a bit of money with OEM products, after all you probably have the cables already and only need the item itself.
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Warranty comes to mind!
 
it gives me peace of mind tht however hard creative try, I will get a working soundcard. They can't fob me off if i have full retail. :)

Plus it was cheaper than most OEM prices so hey, winwin

oh and drivers. And peace of mind (again) that you aint got a rip off del OEM with cut hardware features?

Creative play the OEM market in a VERY sly manner.
 
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I have seen the cheap oem X-FI Extreme Audio for sale, looks rather like the Extreme gamer but no heat sink on the chip, does anyone know how this performs in games? It looks a cheap option, but I assume it has some drawbacks. Anybody bought one?
 
Either get the Music or Gamer, that one seems pointless if you are a gamer. Doesn't do proper hardware acceleration
 
Yozzer said:
I have seen the cheap oem X-FI Extreme Audio for sale, looks rather like the Extreme gamer but no heat sink on the chip, does anyone know how this performs in games? It looks a cheap option, but I assume it has some drawbacks. Anybody bought one?
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about 25 quid?

Cheapest of the bunch and doesnt do EAX and such. Pile of "poop".
 
i have the x-fi gamer and prefer is as its a lower profile card and i think it is better for case air flow
 
fatality ***

i own one and it works great, never failed me, gives an fps boost in most games too. that is compaired with my old sound card and mobo sound
 
I'm planning on the XtremeGamer heard and read a few reviews on the Fatal1ty version as the 64MB Ram is a total waste of time and money as it's the same as the other versions.
 
My retail xtreme gamer has been running in my machine since january and I love it! - right now ive had the pc on for over 2 weeks and not a single issue at all on asus a8n32-sli deluxe mobo with a 7950gt card playing games or music/movies.

Go for it!
 
snow patrol said:
i was about to splash out on an xtremegamer one myself, but i'm a bit concerned as i have a DFI nforce4 board...any thoughts?
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Not all nForce Chipsets have a problem with the X-Fi, just make sure your BIOS is upto date and you shouldn't have a problems. The XtremeGamer is the one i'm now going for looks the best buy of the bunch to be honest.
 
Any of you guys running X-FI Extreme Gamer through DTS channel on Vista 32, can't seem to find drivers that support my Digital speakers... Thx :D
 
Psypher5 said:
the xram does sweet nothing. Seriously. It's like sticking ram on a toilet and saying "IT FLUSHES FASTER" o.o


:)
Id say go for a music, personally. It's what I did, id familiarise yourself with the xfi problems though, ie what system specs have you got?
x-fi generally hate nforce 4 motherboards. etc etc
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fine on my nf4 board ?
 
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