PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 3.8 x 7.9 inches ; 3.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001BDPLJA
• Item model number: SB0886FCS
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,039 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 22, 2008

Product Description

Product Description
The PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound card is the essential audio upgrade for the demanding gamer. You'll hear realistic EAX 5.0 sound effects with 3D positional audio that's so accurate you can locate opponents by sound - even over normal stereo headphones. With the X-Fi I/O drive you'll have front panel connections for your headphones, headset and other audio gear. Plus, get unbeatable performance in your games with hardware accelerated audio and X-RAM.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Expensive Sound Card makes for great listening, September 26, 2008

By	Gil Knutson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I expected an improvement over my old Creative card. This one is head and shoulders beyond it. If you don't put the settings too crazy, and keep it more "level" it sounds very good on my relatively poor Altec Lansing headphones. Much more volume, so the headroom is reasonable; it still needs a good headphone amp if you want the best, though... but, it sounds believable.

It was expensive, yes, but so far from what I have heard in two weeks of listening, I will be able to have very good sound through a lot of motherboard upgrades with this card. The RCA inputs are an important, added feature for me, as is the volume control. I am glad I "bit the bullet".

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceeded my expections., December 29, 2008

By	J. T. Pietrewicz (Deland,Fla.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was blown away by the sound quality of this unit.It's a huge
improvement over the onboard realtek chip.Clarity and directional
positioning in games is amazing and music is vastly improved.
The cmss-3d with headphones does a great job with 5.1 simulation.
Also to note,installation on Vista was a breeze.I installed from
the disc and let auto update do the rest.The software is a bit
bloated but the bells and whistles are fun.You can also do a custom
install and select what you want.If you game or enjoy music you can't
go wrong.I highly recommend this card.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Card, February 2, 2009

By	Jacob L. Herlin - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a really good card. And it's great that it's pci-e x1, because most SLI motherboards have a pci-e x1 before the vga pci slot, and if you have the maximum # of video cards installed, there won't be free (regular) pci-slots.

I initially had a lot of problems with this card because. It wouldn't make sound except for some terrible noise with CMSS-3D on, and it would finally start functioning after half an hour of button pushing and waiting. This problem went away after i installed the 64-bit vista drivers from the website and my motherboard drivers.

The front panel is pretty cool and very convenient, though it can't do much. The game mode button only goes 1 way - once you're in game mode, you have to open the audio control panel, which is very slow, to switch back out of it. I wits pressing the button again would switch back to the previous mode, or it would be nice if there was a button for each mode. The Crystalizer mode is great, and gives music a lot more oomph. The CMSS-3D (simulated surround with stereo speakers or headphones) is very convincing, particularly with decent headphones. I'm using this with a very nice and very large, however old, panasonic stereo system, and it sounds great.