PCI-Express X-Fi on newegg?

That is certainly the wrong image for that product. Maybe this means the PCIE Creative sound card is on the way?
 
Newegg sells the Notebook card on their website for $80 so I'm really wondering if this is actually a PCIE Creative sound card with an incorrect product description. If you put in that mfg part number on google you gets some hits on ebay with the same image so others seem to be selling this too.
 
Newegg sells the Notebook card on their website for $80 so I'm really wondering if this is actually a PCIE Creative sound card with an incorrect product description. If you put in that mfg part number on google you gets some hits on ebay with the same image so others seem to be selling this too.

Well the $80 one is the retail version and this one is the OEM. There isn't really any way to tell until some one either buys one or someone posts a review. :(
 
someone should def try this lol, i might order one if by the end of the week we dont hear anything. If this really is an OEM PCI-E X-Fi id like one for my pc. My new mainboard has 5 * pci-e slots and 2 * pci, so Id like to move completely to pci-e.
 
Looks like the card pictured isn't a full X-Fi though. Unfortunately Creative effectively sells two cards under the X-Fi name, the real one and the pretend one. The real X-Fi has the hardware audio processor and does all the effects in hardware. The other one is just a soundcard, much like any other. Now one can argue that's fine, since Vista doesn't support hardware audio, but then what is the point of dealing with Creative if you AREN'T getting the hardware acceleration? Especially since ALchemy only works on the hardware accelerated cards (at least for now).
 
Just another thing to add to this - although it may not be based on the full x-fi architecture, the older chip that ran the xtreme music wouldve required a bridge chip to work in a pci-e slot which I dont see on this card. So this may be some type of new chipset or a shrunken die x-fi perhaps? Time will tell :)
 
It is definitely a new chipset. They just haven't perfected hardware acceleration yet. I member reading something a few months ago as to how Creative was coming with pci-e and they said it'll be awhile, the pci-e bus has just too many "sluggish" differences that they need to optimize for before they can get a stable pci-e card. Now, if I'm wrong, I won't regret it. My gameer was 69 w/a 30 at Fry's, and pwns my audigy1. I like playing old games cause it's that good. I give it year.
 
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