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Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series | 
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| Brand: Creative
Category: CE
Buy New: £167.52
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 46207
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 143.3 x 91.7 x 39.8
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: 70SB046A02008
Model: 70SB046A02008
EAN: 5390660118692
ASIN: B000BEY4E8
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The ideal versatile sound card to suit all digital entertainment experiences, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum sound card includes an internal drive bay with additional, convenient front-facing input/output connectivity for headphone listening, PC gaming and audio creation. With 109dB SNR audio quality, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum includes the X-Fi IR remote, for easy access to the Entertainment Centre software console, which enables access to music, movies and picture slide shows through a slick, stream...
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Excellent sound sound quality May 18, 2008
Mr. Matthew Ian Moran (UK)
Having used this sound card under Windows Vista X64 I can quite happily say that the sound quality is fantastic.
The supplied remote can be configured to control Media Centre and other media based apps such as ITunes and Power DVD which is a free download on installing the software for the soundcard.
The front I/O module has good connectivity for optical, digital co-axial, phono, microphone and headphones. Be warned you need to floppy power connectors from you psu although a power adaptor is provided should you need one. The front I/O module takes up a 5.25" drive bay and I suggest you connect the ribbon cable to it before you install it.
I only found one niggly little problem with the sound from the analogue line in cutting out when Internet Explorer was launched and directed to sites such as Amazon for example. I have found a simple solution for this.
The solution was to go to the control panel and then sound and then clicking the sounds tab and selecting the no sounds option (no great loss as Windows Sounds are annoying to me).
To conclude I found this sound card was a worthwhile investment for me.
For reference purposes my system configuration comprised of a MSI K9N Neo V2 mobo with an Nforce 530 Chipset, 4Gb of PC 5300 667 Mhz dual channel RAM, 160Gb Maxtor SATA 2 HDD, a AMD Athlon 64 4000+ dual core CPU and a single 256 Mb Geforce 8400GS graphics card.
 a good card let down by bad drivers/support February 17, 2008
Stephen J. Buck (herts ,uk)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
just got mine ...and have spent the last four days trying to stop the crackling and popping sounds ..it happens even if you disable the x-fi setting. seems to be a number of issues for people running nforce 4 chipsets. i dint run sli but the board Gigabyte (ga8kn sli) is capable with two pcie x16 slots .and im getting complete sound break up at various times during gameplay whether x-fi is on/off or sounds are set to ultra high (128 sounds) high (64) or medium (32)...seems that the card is overloading the interrupts on the pci slot...so far i have
1. updated bios.....no change
2. reinstaled drivers...no change
3. change to another pci slot..no change
4. removed any cards from adjacent pci slots..nothing
tried adjusting pci latency ( with pci latency tool)....nothing
5.many other small suggested things...nothing
basically if you get crackles and distorted sound you are probably not going to cure it.
best just to return the card and get a non x-fi one..( or non creative) i had the x-fi extreme audio version(no x-fi chip) and it worked fine on both eax and non eax games..so for me ill just have to live without the xms3d surround on headphones, which was pretty impressive for the few minutes it worked
 Dont be fooled. January 17, 2008
S. Georgiou (Cyprus)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is no point in buying this sound card if you have a PC running Windows Vista. I made the mistake and bought it eventhough it was labelled Windows Vista Ready, they may have the drivers for Vista however a lot of the features do not work in Vista e.g. Dolby.
Additionally the Customer Support is a joke as for the passed months they have been claiming that they will refer the matter to a supervisor.
High-pitched screech on SLI mode & nvidia motherboards May 25, 2007
Dematerialiser (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ron's review is absolutely correct. I have the same setup and the same symptoms. Anyone who has the misfortune to buy this card for use with Nvidia SLI is in for a system-crippling experience. The bottom line is that the card simply doesn't work, and probably never will - which is ironic, considering that it's a hardcore 'gamers' sound card; many hardcore gamers will go for Nvidia cards in SLI (and possibly on the newest nvidia chipset being provided on a variety of motherboards).
Creative blame Nvidia, but the Nvidia equipment gives me trouble-free performance. If you're still in doubt, check out the Creative driver downloads that are available for this particular model - there are none! You have to go for the basic fatal1ty drivers, which haven't been updated since launch... Creative are obviously not committed to updating their products - they must know that this one is fatally flawed, and are simply pretending it never existed..
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS February 18, 2007
Ronald Gourlay (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The problem with Nforce4 and Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS or any other Creative X-fi soundcards has not been fixed. I had a problem with mine as have thousands of other people and contacted Creative and after a couple of emails, they replied. They will not admit there is a problem and instead told me to return the card under warranty for a brand new replacement. I then installed the replacement and still got the problem where you get a high pitched whine through your speakers and all you can do is reboot your machine. There is a problem where the card shares an IRQ with your video card in an SLI setup and i think that that is the problem. If anyone has a Nforce4 board and has an SLI setup, I advise them to stay clear of Creative until they admit the problem and fix it. On the other hand if you do not have an SLI setup the card runs perfectly and is brilliant.
Ron.
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