Creative X-Fi Sound cards

[Bass]

Have been looking at the specs / a few reviews of these & would like a bit of feedback if any of you has one in his rig. Apparently it makes a HUGE difference to the sound putting one of these in - any comments ??

Nerdboy - don't you have one in your PC ?

Thanks in advance

[Ruslan74]

Having read several reviews it seems these cards are good if you have the latest drivers and compliant mobo/gfx card combos.

I am just not sure if the price is fair unless you are a real music addict, any Audigy 2 ZS will do for gaming purists IMO.

[sss]

i will buy one of these cards soon.. just dunno which one...

[Bass]

It just seems like the X-Fi is orders of magnitude better (51 million transistors compared to the Audigy's 4 million)

One of the reviews I've seen:
http://www.custompc.co.uk/custompc/r...eme-music.html

Edit: and another one ..
http://www.guru3d.com/article/sound/265/

[Scooby_Doo16]

I got the x-fi fatality... Just wow... so much better than my old audigy 1... Every thing this just sounds better (but i did get a set of logitech Z5500s at the same time as i got the card so didn't test the X-Fi on my old creative 5200 speakers so it could have been the speakers making the diff).



But am very happy with my set up

[Paragon]

i am not quite as lucky in having the fatality, but i do have the xtreme music. I must say that the diiference is very pronounced.

I am a big sound fanatic, so it was important to me, so i decided to go for it.

There really a massive difference, even with the crappy headphones i use

that is what i experienced

[Bass]

Great - thanks for the feedback .. Next question is the price you paid for it ..?

[Paragon]

my extreme music was just over the R1000 (between 1000-1100 for the least expensive 1). They r expensive, yes, but i believe worth it

[Scooby_Doo16]

got mine for R1899 (but am vat reg so didn't pay tax).

[Brawler]

Is it really worth it?
Would there be a huge difference between a audigy 2 value and a X-fi xtrememusic? I really need a soundcard this onboard one is killing me but i cant get myself to pay up :\