Product Description

Revitalize your downloaded music and moviesRestore the details and vibrance your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so youll hear it all-crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions. Surround sound from your stereo music and movies. Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like a live performance. Listen on a pair of desktop speakers or a full 5.1 speaker system. Headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers. Headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers. Headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9694 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Creative Labs
• Model: 70SB079000000
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 4.00" w x 10.00" l, .98 pounds

Features

• Device Type - Sound card
• Interface Type - External
• Localization - English
• Signal Processor/Chipset Vendor - Intel, AMD
• Sound Output Mode - Multi channel

From the manufacturer
Turn your PC into your home entertainment center

Why settle for basic, built-in sound? Your music and movies deserve Xtreme Fidelity. Add the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card to your PC and turn your downloaded music into your own personal concert. Plus watch DVDs or downloaded videos with full cinematic surround sound.

Revitalize your downloaded music and movies

Restore the details and vibrance your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so you'll hear it all-crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions.

Surround sound from your stereo music and movies? Yes!

Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like a live performance. Listen on a pair of desktop speakers or a full 5.1 speaker system.

Headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers

Slip on your headphones and X-Fi technology moves the sound away from your ears into the space around you. You'll feel like you're sitting in with your favorite band or in the best seat at the movie theater.

Enjoy the ultimate PC movie experience

Download Cyberlink PowerDVD software with DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding for free and get an unbeatable DVD movie watching experience.

Customer Reviews

Caveat emptor...
Despite being sold as an X-Fi card, this particular model does not use the X-Fi chipset. In fact it uses a variation of the Audigy 2 SE chipset. This is further confirmed by the fact that this card uses different drivers than the rest of the X-Fi line, and is not recognized as an X-Fi card in games. The main problem with this is you cannot uses any of the X-Fi features in games like you would expect. Try using this card in Battlefield 2142 and you will see what I mean.

Creative Labs should be ashamed of themselves for this blatant act of marketing fraud. When someone buys a Ferrari, they are expecting to get a Ferrari, not a Honda with a Ferrari emblem on the front. But that is exactly what Creative Labs has done here. They are marketing this sound card as a high-end brand (X-Fi) when it is really a crippled version of the previous product line (SE model Audigy). They must have a glut of unsold chips and they thought they could pull a fast one on consumers with this cheap card.

I for one will be very cautious before I consider purchasing Creative Labs products in the future. Buyer beware!

If only you could install the updates
I got this my old sound card could not work on Vista, but although this is on the Vista list of compatible hardware you might as well use your motherboard sound than buy this card thinking it works on Vista.
Sure, you get a driver for Vista on the Creative site, but the software doesn't work! I am going back to xp and my turtle beach card and great software and donate my x-fi to the goodwill. Creative admits that the card is not Vista compatible ("if it doesn't say so on the box, it is not compatible"). All you get is sound, no mixer or console, and it will not work with recording software such as Total Recorder on Vista. And with their loopy update it won't install on xp.

NOT 100% COMPATIBLE WITH VISTA
THIS CARD WORK WITH WINDOWS VISTA, BUT ITS FEATURES DOESN'T WORK, YOU CAN'T HAVE ALL POWER OF THIS CARD IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS VISTA. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WASTE YOUR MONEY, DON'T BUY THIS CARD.