Creative Technology, a maker of digital media players and various multimedia devices, showcased its first audio card for modern PCI Express bus at the Consumer Electronics Show 2007. Specs of the product are unclear, but it is remarkable that Creative is finally paying attention to the bus that has been afloat for nearly three years now.
Images of Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio for PCI Express x1 bus, which have been published by several web-sites, reveal that the card carries one relatively small X-Fi chip, an unknown audio codec, the lack of onboard memory buffer, relatively small number of capacitors, the absence of MIDI port and the presence of S/P DIF connectors and five analog connectors to attack 7.1-channel audio system.
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News source: Xbit Labs
Images of Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio for PCI Express x1 bus, which have been published by several web-sites, reveal that the card carries one relatively small X-Fi chip, an unknown audio codec, the lack of onboard memory buffer, relatively small number of capacitors, the absence of MIDI port and the presence of S/P DIF connectors and five analog connectors to attack 7.1-channel audio system.
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It's because they are highly regarded for gaming. The sound quality comes second.
Drivers that aren't bloated? Wow, people use that term with absolutely no idea of its meaning. So a couple of driver files is considered "bloated"? Simply put: Select drivers only, you don't get any other software. Duh.
Yep, I recall when they were saying it was in test phase and that it was going to be difficult to get around PCI-X issues with sound cards. Seems they have fixed this.
Anyhow I just got my X-Fi Platinum in December.
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