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Overpriced pos. Creative hater here!
I sold all of my soundcards. Got a USB to digital converter and a Yamaha 363 receiver for the same price as that stupid hunk of junk. No more driver issues b/c I DON'T HAVE any lol. Simply streams the sound of COD4 w/ no bullshat. Sound is way better now thanks.
Now, if it was $100 I would have a different opinion. $300? lol
alright we fucking get it. Stop saying it all the time.
alright we fucking get it. Stop saying it all the time.
Thats the idea, he wants you to run out and buy that usb device hes using. Think him as a telemarketer or a door salesman
... or puppies that bark and shoot napalm out of their mouths <.< >.> <.<
Anyway I would kinda understand the EMI shielding, if it worked. I have a wireless PCI card that is positioned as far away from my X-Fi as possible yet I still hear it chattering away.
If it worked, Creative would try to back it up with hard data. So would Asus and Razer. None of them do.Anyway I would kinda understand the EMI shielding, if it worked.
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=669&product=17791
Umm this card is going for $149.99 in the US. Jump on it if you want to now!
Ya $300 is a way to much for a soundcard.
Ya $300 is a way to much for a soundcard.
Can't say much about this particular shielding, but many people have reported great success by manually shielding their cards (through various methods, though ERS paper is nice and simple; courtesy of cotdt at Head-Fi). So, it's nice to see Creative actually trying in this regard.From what I've read, the idea of an EMI shield is a good one, but in practice it doesn't seem to work so well.
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heh nope. Just want people to know there are alternatives to cussing about the damn crackling, bsods etc. I go for bang/buck stuff mostly. Be cool if I could get free stuff out of it.
Truly, the usb route is now the best I have used. It was not that way until about 1 1/2 years back when EAX started to become irrelevant.
Please do not be mean to me. I am actually a really nice guy that loves puppies and napalm.
Atech Asus Xonar with the driver that has that DXG2.0 or whatever the heck they call it which emulate eax5. Dont know about its preformance, prolly lower since its emulating it.
"Of course, the big disadvantage of the D2X offer X-Fi based offerings is the loss of EAX Advanced HD effects"
The introduction of ASUS' DS3D GX technology to open up EAX in all games to Windows Vista users is a hugely welcome one, and it appears to work reasonably well from our testing with a handful of titles. Their 'works with everything' approach is certainly far better than Creative Labs' application specific ALchemy solution when it comes to ease of use, and seems to do the job nicely. Of course, the big disadvantage of the D2X offer X-Fi based offerings is the loss of EAX Advanced HD effects, but again this might not be a big deal dependant on your personal tastes, with the ability to enjoy games in Dolby Digital or DTS possibly taking precedence over EAX-based environmental audio.
I like the taken out of context. Full quote:
It is funny that all I ever hear is that x-fi has "EAX 5.0". How many games actually support it? It seems that even CL does not want anyone to know how many games support "EAX 5.0", as their website: http://www.soundblaster.com/technology/welcome.asp?j1=eax&j2=gamelist only lists EAX compatible, not EAX vx.xx compatible.
I really like the idea of DDL and/or DTS enabled games, as it is not HW (CL) specific. Read: universal standard. Instead of CL competing on proprietary gimmicks, let's make them compete on overall sound quality and ... maybe even drivers.
Dolby sucks for gaming compared to EAX
Nvidia Mobo?
Find me a soundcard that delivers EAX 5.0 and the same preformance or pipe it with your "replacment" downgrade, thx.
http://www.auzentech.com/site/products/x-fi_prelude.php
And they actually update their drivers, unlike creative.
Well, Auzentech has a far better support than Creative and it is a much nicer card... You don't have to get so defensive on it.
Define "nicer"...I hate when undefined is being used as an argument...
Let's see, better components, has better analog out, opamps that are replaceable and you don't need a breakout box for optical. Creative seemed to have finally fixed the optical out part this time around. Plus, you actually get drivers that work and they update them regularly adding new features to the card. Creative does not do this and then tells someone who does to stop posting modded drivers that enable features on their cards.