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situman
10-20-05, 11:28 AM
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=201887164&adid=17662

http://www.buy.com/retail/coupon.asp?prid=88901528&adid=17662

even though the coupon is for First Time customer, it works regardless.

Got mine for 108 shipped.
g0dM@n
10-20-05, 02:13 PM
hmmmmm...

does this thing perform better in games? would i be able to hear enemies further away like a3d used to do back in the day?
situman
10-20-05, 02:53 PM
no clue
fuzzba11
10-20-05, 02:57 PM
Woahhhh, that's a good deal, the cheapest XFi I saw on newegg was for $169
Kevin007
10-20-05, 03:44 PM
would you rather have good speakers or an awesome sound card?
g0dM@n
10-20-05, 04:03 PM
I already have good a good speaker set... I wish I could test these X-Fi cards before buying, but there is no way to other than buying it! :(
situman
10-20-05, 04:23 PM
would you rather have good speakers or an awesome sound card?

Both
perfectturmoil
10-20-05, 06:04 PM
Both

Good soundcard - good speakers on a bad soundcard make it worse than before - bad speakers with a good soundcard show you the limit of the speakers.
mfjonny
10-24-05, 02:24 AM
would you rather have good speakers or an awesome sound card?

Well... How about a nice car with a crappy engine - or a cappy car with a nice engine. The choice is yours.
Albaholic
10-24-05, 05:38 AM
how does this music one differ from the other bundles, is it just bundled software or do they disable or enable features for each?
zer0nix
10-25-05, 11:15 PM
hold up, i thought x-fi was designed special for use with headphones, not speakers... then again, i do remember reading something about a 5.1 experience out of a 2 speaker + bass setup or something :shrug:


good find regardless! :D
saber07
10-25-05, 11:54 PM
Ive heard the x-fi series (even xtreme music one) are better than the audigy zs platinum...Not sure on validity of these
saber07
10-26-05, 12:11 AM
hmm. dont think that coupon works anymore, at least not for me.
CordialSpam
10-26-05, 12:16 AM
I already have good a good speaker set... I wish I could test these X-Fi cards before buying, but there is no way to other than buying it! :(

Buy at Compusa and return it after test? Just say you don't like the performnace or something.. :rolleyes:

Btw here is a good review on anandtech.

http://www.anandtech.com/multimedia/showdoc.aspx?i=2518
Xtreme Barton
10-26-05, 12:50 AM
wow i cant believe the pro cards have 64mb ram on it..

cant wait to see test that actually utilize its feature and see what type of gain is seen.

all in all sounds like a great card.
situman
10-26-05, 08:28 AM
Got mine yesterday. Havent fire the thing up yet, but we'll see.
g0dM@n
10-26-05, 08:38 AM
I heard Creative's next move is two X-Fi cards in SLI.
situman
10-26-05, 11:14 AM
will they be creating their own motherboards too?
g0dM@n
10-26-05, 11:17 AM
Yeah, and you can plug your hard drives and optical drives in via a headphone plug! The new interface!!! 10x faster than SATA!
blueswitch
10-28-05, 12:12 PM
on a quick responce, I just read Maximum PC's review on the 3 flavors of X-Fi card. They loved the thing but they also mentioned that you might not be able to distinguish the difference between an X-Fi and an Audigy 2zs over speakers...but you would over quality headphones for sure. And also at this point nothing is written to take advantage of the onboard RAM now...but should be later
Fighter2a
10-28-05, 01:54 PM
Says coupon is invalid.