DSC said:The "Live 24bit DSP" chip that Creative sells to mobo makers is the same chip as the ones on the Audigy LS and Live 24bit, it has no hardware acceleration, it's not gonna threaten or compete with their crap in any manner. You'll never see Creative selling the X-Fi chips to 3rd parties. Those Live24bit chips have all the same stupidity as the A2ZS DSP, locked to 48KHz, poor resampling, questionable 24bit 192KHz support, bass management issues(see 3dss review on A4P).
In a press release, Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo said that by utilizing the X-Fi's 24-bit Crystalizer and CMSS 3D technology, music from your MP3s and CDs can sound "even better than the original studio recording."
John Reynolds said:There's just something inside that makes me reluctant to buy a product marketed on the gaming handle of a guy named Wendel.
DSC said:Big deal. Crap is crap, no matter how it's packaged. Just look at this lovely line.
Yes, and pigs fly out of Sim Wong Hoo's ass.
Still on your creative-hate roll I see. Frankly, I don't think many here at B3D are interested in listening to you spewing bile. Generally speaking, we try to keep a higher level of discourse on this site(*).DSC said:Big deal. Crap is crap, no matter how it's packaged.
Dave Baumann said:I've not read up on all of this yet, but the questions I would have are: does it havea PCI Express version and can it doe Dolby Encode?
Rur0ni said:Does the pro/elite model come with an amp or something?
I didn't realize Creative's sloth is now a feature. I'm not sure I'd qualify that longevity as either valuable or desirable, from a gamer's POV. Obviously I think the price is bollocks, but I didn't realize the Fatal1ty edition came with a front port and remote. That makes it look a bit more palatable at $200 when compared to similarly-kitted Audigy 2s, but still ridiculous at $280, IMO. An Audigy 2 nets you what, maybe 10-15% over CPU sound in current games? So the X-Fi can give me 40% better than 10%?Monty said:And why is everyone so overly annoyed at the price, i agree i would like it to go down abit, but that kinda goes for everything out there. Sound cards generally out live most other components in pcs, personally have had my audigy for years, and in that time gone through 3 gpus and 2 cpus, seems to me you get a hell of a lot more value for money out of a sound card
Rur0ni said:Am I going to have to get an amp for these if I get an X-Fi? :|
_xxx_ said:Who told you such nonsense? You don't need an amp.