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Difference between all creative X-fi cards

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almach1

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i want to upgrade from onboard audio and i want it to last a while. PS; i'm also a BF2 player.

I'm looking at x-fi cards but i don't need all the fancy front controls and stuff.

MY QUESTION; is the board for the "extreme music" the same as the "xfi platinum"?

I think the elite pro and fatlaty ones are slightly different but i'm don't need those prices.
 
There is one more difference between the 4 cards if you get an elite pro, which are the DACs included on the board... besides the ability to hook up the external device...

The high-end X-Fi Elite Pro uses four Cirrus Logic CS4398 stereo DACs. These are the same DACs used in the Audigy 4 board, and offer better signal-to-noise ratio than the 8-channel CS4382. Like the CS4382, the 4392's can handle both PCM and DSD digital streams. In addition, the board features a Xilinx XC9536XL, a programmable logic device that can be used in a variety of applications, but has been used in some devices to handle DRM wrappers for digital audio.
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Extreme Tech Review

 
"Red LEDs will make you frag like Fatal1ty, or so we've been told."

Beautiful.

The main difference for the standard gamer with low-midrange speakers and average headphones is the additional X-Ram on the high end versions. The Xtreme Music and Platinum versions only have 2mb.

I installed the Xtreme Music last week to replace onboard and love it. Is it worth the price difference between it and the Audigy 2 ZS? Since everyone's running out of stock, best price on the 2 ZS I could find was $75 after tax/shipping, and I picked the X-fi up for $99+tax after rebate at Fry's.

-z
 
Oh, and the Fatal1ty board has a little glowing logo you can see if you have a transparent case cover. That way, you can show the world that your system is pwn3d by Fatal1ty...
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From the same review as above 🙂
 
I picked up the x-fi and turned on the settings to ultra-hi on BF2. it's like a whole new game. everythings sounds different and better. the guns all don't sound the same anymore. it's awsome! got some extra FPS too because of the hardware accelleration on it.
 
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