yay my new xfi platinum is installed!

[ares350]

pros, card looks nice, black PCB is always a nice touch. the little glowing red emblem on the edge is also nice.

sound is fantastic, control window is clean and easy.

Cons
I wish the 5.25" bay controller was bigger so it filled the spot. its got 1/8" gap all the way around, not crazy about that, but its rounded edges so its not overly noticeable.

my case is an absolute spaghetti mess due to many changes routed all around my water tubes, but when I get around to rebuilding and organize it again, I don't know what I'm going to do with the ugly audio ext cable stringing across the case. its a big fat ribbon cable too, I hope a round IDE cable can be substituted.

[boostified]

Congrats! cant wait to get my new sound card.

[Sir Barton]

Thats a nice card you got there, I hope you have good speakers to go along with it :).

[ares350]

sure dont.

its like pulling teeth trying to get my hands on a set of Z5500's.

their either 400$ or out of stock. and the out of stocks are raising their prices by the day, newegg and dell had them for 270 a week ago, now its 300 and 310; newegg is still out of stock for 2 more weeks, and dell says 6 weeks to ship.

[-_{MoW}_-Assasi]

Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 that i have are awsome :beer:

Too bad i have to use a power converter atm to change 240v to 115v native American power
Im working on modding the internal power PCB to natively support 240v :)

[Rsgunter]

How are you liking the card man? I just bought one yesterday with 100 rebate(hell yeah!).

I only have a Z2300 setup right now because I have a little bedroom in a 3 bedroom apartment. :P Good speakers but no surround so I'll be limited in that regard, but when I get my Sennheiser headphones I'll be all set!

Let me know how awesome it is man!