X-Fi Xtreme Music or Xtreme Gamer?

TomL · 20 Dec 2006 at 13:10

What's the difference between these two cards besides the fact the Gamer edition costs approximately £5 more?

Music: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-043-CL
Gamer: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-045-CL

collisster · 20 Dec 2006 at 13:48

I think I'm right in saying the xtream gamer has built in sound memory to free up your systems while you are gaming
actually that might be this one
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-044-CL

Otaku Punk · 20 Dec 2006 at 16:22

the gamer in the original post has no onboard Xram memory, or hardware dolby digital/DTS decoding. The fatal1ty gamer has both of these features, just without the breakout box of the other Xram models.

If money is no object, go for the fatal1ty gamer. However the benchmarks of games that show some benefit from the Xram (basically BF2 and BF2142) show only 2-4fps difference between a Xram equipped card and an xtreme music. I personally would go for the xtreme music, as it offers the best performance to price of the xfi cards

TomL · 20 Dec 2006 at 16:28

A bit annoyed as the music edition is actually out of stock.