X-Fi on This Week Only for £25 - Whats the catch?

MeatLoaf · 1 Feb 2007 at 15:54

An X-Fi for £25 is amazing really.

Its the Extreme Audio OEM. Will this still play games ok and will it support EAX HD?

EDIT : To answer my own question - Ive had a look on creatives website and No it dosent support EAX so no good for gaming.

Firegod · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:03

Yup Extreme Audio version = no no.

waso_dude · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:13

proper shame that

but a awsome price!

TALON1973 · 1 Feb 2007 at 18:51

MeatLoaf said:
An X-Fi for £25 is amazing really.

Its the Extreme Audio OEM. Will this still play games ok and will it support EAX HD?

EDIT : To answer my own question - Ive had a look on creatives website and No it dosent support EAX so no good for gaming.

yeah but whats it like for playing music through headphones ??

MeatLoaf · 1 Feb 2007 at 20:11

TALON1973 said:
yeah but whats it like for playing music through headphones ??

As good as any other x-fi

gizmoy2k · 2 Feb 2007 at 10:40

Creative dont support vist either :rolleyes:

till march at least

dokko · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:43

sorry but could someone explain why this would be so bad for gaming?

I have on board sound and its 'canny' while playing games through my amp then to my headphones.

I'd imaging this card for £25 would be a huge leap up in gaming would it not?

Left & right sound is good enough for me, i dont need surround sound, im guessing thats what the EAX offers?

Richdog · 2 Feb 2007 at 17:45

dokko said:
sorry but could someone explain why this would be so bad for gaming?

First post...

MeatLoaf said:
EDIT : To answer my own question - Ive had a look on creatives website and No it dosent support EAX so no good for gaming.

EAX is the hardware sound acceleration and advanced effects.

Firegod · 2 Feb 2007 at 18:15

dokko said:
sorry but could someone explain why this would be so bad for gaming?

I have on board sound and its 'canny' while playing games through my amp then to my headphones.

I'd imaging this card for £25 would be a huge leap up in gaming would it not?

Left & right sound is good enough for me, i dont need surround sound, im guessing thats what the EAX offers?

Alrite mate,

Basically it's a drastically cut down X-Fi. With no EAX effects, reduced everything and limited connectivity. There was a graph showing the differences but I can't find it.

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2007 at 00:37

Seems near enough no point in the card whatsoever then, why did creative release it ?

MeatLoaf · 3 Feb 2007 at 09:59

Combat squirrel said:
Seems near enough no point in the card whatsoever then, why did creative release it ?

Its probably ideal for media centre PCs

willhub · 3 Feb 2007 at 14:41

The X-Fi Extreme Music does support EAX Advanced HD 5.0..

http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=208&product=14066

MeatLoaf · 3 Feb 2007 at 14:56

willhub said:
The X-Fi Extreme Music does support EAX Advanced HD 5.0..

http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=208&product=14066

Yeah i know but were on about the Xtreme Audio, two different cards

willhub · 4 Feb 2007 at 09:28

Oh sorry got them mixed up lol, its not even worth anything then if it does not support EAX, Extreme Music would be the best then.

MeatLoaf · 4 Feb 2007 at 09:41

Yeah but i wont pay £50 for one i will wait for one to come up in MM

Hxc · 4 Feb 2007 at 12:55

EAX is worthless if you are going to run Vista, sound has been totally redone iirc.

Firegod · 4 Feb 2007 at 13:09

Hxc said:
EAX is worthless if you are going to run Vista, sound has been totally redone iirc.

It's not worthless, I thought Creative were making a fix so that it worked on the X-Fi series?

mrk · 4 Feb 2007 at 13:25

Firegod said:
It's not worthless, I thought Creative were making a fix so that it worked on the X-Fi series?

In March.

The Xtreme Gamer is the alternative since the music is no longer sold. Same chip, same features, smaller card.

"andy" · 4 Feb 2007 at 20:01

ive got an extreme audio and for listening to music through speakers/heaphones its a HUGE step up from the onboard sound i used to use

luckily i dont game too much

MeatLoaf · 4 Feb 2007 at 21:33

andy8271 said:
ive got an extreme audio and for listening to music through speakers/heaphones its a HUGE step up from the onboard sound i used to use

luckily i dont game too much

Can you try it ingames and give us a comparison too your onboard sound?