X-Fi....worth the upgrade?

Griffyn

Griffyn

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Well I am going to sell my current setup soon and go down the conroe route most likely with an x1900 xt-x. My pc is used a lot for gaming, watching movies and listening 2 music. I currently have a Creative Audigy ZS2 THX 7.1 card with the Creative 7.1 Gigaworks S750.

Now is it worth keeping this card or sell it with the current rig and use onboard sound or upgrade and get the Creative X-Fi.

I admit I am audiophile and one of those annoying people who can hear the difference between 192 and 320kbps MP3's especially in my car which has Alpine Type-R Speakers (if ** not in the know they sound rather nice).

Also since its a gaming rig I want to get the best FPS possible so presume onboard cpu power will be used if I use the onboard sound and surely this wont be as good?

Cheers for the replies :)
 
Ok so is the sound difference big enough to warrant buying "Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music" over the Audigy ZS 2 THX 7.1....bearing in mind I already have the ZS 2 THX 7.1. Just that since the cheapest X-Fi is £80 this could be the difference between a new conroe 6700 and 6600 or something. Cheeers
 
Unfortunately I dont know any1 with a X-Fi. I must admit tho I dont talk about pcs to ppl considering I wld jst get strange looks and most people would probably consider it a bad hobby!

That is true I will get money for my Audigy ZS2.

I have read a few reviews and they reckon the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition is a worthwhile upgrade. The only thing they dont seem to mention is what the hell is the remote used for? I mean what can be done with it? I think I may go for this card since I quite like the input in the 3.5" bay plus the onboard memory sounds like it will useful in the future and the card is meant to better so may as well go for it :rolleyes:
 
Still dont know about the Fatal1ty as I know BF2 uses it and I am sure BF2142 will also use it.....and well BF2 is my fav game currently!

Also the ports on the front would be useful.

Also I do watch a fair amount of stuff on the pc at uni and listen to music pretty much all the time. So remote could be handy. Would you be able to use it for winamp though? Maybe a hack for it somewhere?
 
Okay points noted....will see what the prices are like when I come to build rig in a few months or so. But the difference in price between the x-fi platinum and fata1ty are quite minimal so seems more future proof to get the one with the X-ram. Since I do like the idea of the inputs on the front.
 
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