The essential audio upgrade for serious PC gamers.
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Series is the essential audio upgrade for serious PC gamers. Endorsed by the world's leading pro gamer, it's the most powerful sound card ever, accelerating Direct X, OpenAL and EAX 5.0 to give the highest quality cinematic audio at faster frame rates, with 64MB of X-Ram to ensure fast loading of high-quality sounds. Game Mode dedicates the processor 100% to game audio, powering X-Fi CMSS-3D to give ultra-realistic surround sound over stereo headphones for LAN or late-night gaming. In addition, X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer restores sparkle to low quality audio, upgrading games, MP3, DIVX and TV audio to 24-bit quality.
- X-Fi, the world's most powerful audio processor, delivers faster frame rates in games with hardware accelerated Direct X, OpenAL and EAX 5.0.
- X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone delivers incredible surround sound over stereo headphones for gaming, movies and music.
- X-Fi CMSS-3D Surround up-mixes audio and video to 5.1 or 7.1 surround.
- X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer makes all audio sound better, enhancing games, MP3/WMA, streaming audio and video, TV and radio, DivX and DVD movies.
- X-Fi Active Modal Architecture with ‘Entertainment', ‘Gaming' and ‘Audio Creation' modes dedicates the processor to the task at hand, with an easy-to-use interface for each mode.
- 64MB of X-RAM for fast loading of high-quality audio samples.
Technical Specifications
- 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 96kHz sample rate
- 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output
- 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources at 192kHz to stereo output
- 16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
- ASIO 2.0 support at 16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring
- Enhanced SoundFont support at up to 24-bit resolution
- 64MB of X-RAM
Connectivity
- Speaker and Headphone connections for stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks)
- Line In / Microphone In / Digital Out* / Digital I/O** (shared 3.5mm FlexiJack)
- Auxiliary Line level Input (via 4-pin Molex connector)
- I/O Console connector (for optional upgrade)
* Digital Out supports stereo SPDIF out and pass through of multichannel DVD sound
** Digital I/O requires Sound Blaster Digital I/O Module (Sold Separately)
Warranty
- 2-year limited hardware warranty
Minimum System Requirements
- Genuine Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz, AMD® 1 GHz processor or faster
- Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Window XP Pro x64
- 256MB RAM
- 600MB of free hard disk space
- Available PCI 2.1 slot for the audio card
- CD-ROM/CD-RW or CD/DVD-ROM required for software installation
- Graphics card with DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® compliant 3D graphics accelerator
- Internet connection is required to obtain free PowerDVD players with Dolby® Digital and DTS™ decoding
Package Contents
- Sound Blaster X-Fi™ PCI card
- Quick Start leaflet
- Installation and Applications CD containing:
- Drivers for Windows® XP
- Creative Software Suite
- User's Guide
