Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000)
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Customer Review: What Squonk said!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you haven't read Squonk's review, please do so, it leaves no stone unturned. His review inspired me to upgrade to this card, the benefit for upgrading to this card from extreme audio, will benefit even a non pc gamer like my self, I prefer the xbox 360 for games. Thanks Squonk for the great review! By the way, Amoazon still rocks, I promise you, if you are using a creative extreme audio card, and like myself, was not able to get your hands on the extreme music card. (short lived card)
This is the card you want. I can tell you any set of headphones 50 ohms and under will absolutely shine with this card.
If like me, music is your concern, you set it for the music and movies mode, that makes for the best purest audio, for gaming and music creation, modes for that too. And changing modes via the control panel, is as easy as a click. Making the a very affordable card for those that may want several uses for the card. The value is stunning, and regardless of bad reviews, this card was not a hassle to get up and running on 64 bit vista. As others have said, you're better off not installing the cd, just go to creative's site, and download what you need from there.
Customer Review: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card (70SB073A00000)
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this sound card around Dec. 2008 to replace my SoundBlaster Live! 24 Bit basic card (an okay sound card), because I wanted just a little more sparkle in my games, DVDs & mp3s. It gave me that, and a whole lot more.
I bought the card for $69.95 USD at BestBuy. Sound is amazing, particularly music. I'm running Windows 7 Build 7057 (32 bit), and the the Creative Labs beta drivers for Win7 work flawlessly. My system is an ancient P4 3.4 GHz Northwood, with 4 GB PC3200 DDR dual channel, 2 x 500GB SATA-150 Seagate 7200.11 Barracuda drives, and an ATI Radeon 3850HD AGP 8X vid. card. It's still a pretty darn decent rig, all my apps & everything still "pop" up on the screen, so that's good enough for me!
For Windows 7, I downloaded and installed the Creative Console Launcher for Vista, because Creative Labs doesn't have it for Win7 yet. I am *STILL* using my ancient, 1996-vintage, crusty old Altec Lansing ACS45 speakers & sub-woofer (the ones with the ORIGINAL plastic sub-woofer housing), and they sound phenomenal. I also have a decent set of Radio Shack headphones, and they sound great with the X-Fi XtremeGamer card.
Customer Review: X-Fi Soundblaster Xtreme Gamer
Summary: 5 Stars
The Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card is sick awesome. The first time I listened to it play an audio file I couldn't believe my ears. It has so much power and clarity behind it that it made my $10 Logitech replacement speakers sound like high-end surround sound...less the bass of course. The crystalizer function is also awesome. With the crystalizer enabled you can bring enhanced audio clarity to songs and games so that you can "finally here what your speakers are saying." It takes your breath away to hear this sound card in action. Plus it is required for most of the next-gen games coming out in the near future. I guess you could say you "have to have it." Well, that is about it.
On the negative side. This sound card does not like to be on a system that is overclocked. If you overclock your processor, motherboard RAM, or graphics card, the Creative Labs X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card may produce a slight amount of whine or static during some newer games like Bioshock, but these problems have not been apparent in Doom 3 or MOH Airborne as an example.
Customer Review: superb card for the money
Summary: 5 Stars
The card has some definite advantages for enjoying music, games and the like. The only disadvantage would be that it is not compatible with AC97 microphone and headphone jacks.
Since I have a lowgrade videocard which i am planning to upgrade pretty soon I noticed there is a 15 percent increase in gaming as the card advertises. This is combined with an Athlon 3200+ 2 ghz processor
Compared two games with this videocard Hellgate London and COD 4 there is definitely a performance increase in both games because Hellgate london
would crash every other minute before the soundcard. In COD4 there is less system lockup and the bullets actually sound like real bullets.
This is a rig with a 3 gigs of Ram and a 2 ghz processor so if you want to see some definite improvement running a outdated system buy a decent videocard for 150 and you will be gaming for awhile with the best sound for 80.00 dollars guaranteed.
Customer Review: amazing sound, but only install the driver
Summary: 5 Stars
This card produces rather amazing sound quality, especially compared to on-board sound (e.g. Asus MB). The clarity of sound is startling. You'll hear your ripped CDs with a quality you never heard before (assuming you didn't dumb down the sound by using MP3).
For optimal music sound, without junking up your system with Creative's software junk, just install the drivers, choosing Entertainment mode during install. Very simple.
I've got the computer sound output to a Yamaha MCR-E810 2-speaker stereo system (around $400). Best sound I've ever had, and I'm a geezer, so have been through a lot of sound systems in my day. I listen to a mixture of music, including much classical along with popular & jazz.
I'm using Zune software, with CDs ripped to lossless quality. Quite satisfied with the setup, other than nitpicks about the Zune software (which is still better than iTunes).