Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCIe, Retail

PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Features
Your Movies and Music. Way Better.
Why settle for basic, built-in sound? Your music and movies deserve Xtreme Fidelity. Add the PCI Express® Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio sound card to your PC and turn your downloaded music into your own personal concert. Watch DVDs or downloaded videos with full cinematic surround sound. Plus experience 3D audio and EAX effects in games.
Revitalize your downloaded music and movies Revitalize your downloaded music and movies
Restore the details and vibrance your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so you'll hear it all-crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions.
Surround sound from your stereo music and movies? Yes! Surround sound from your stereo music and movies? Yes!
Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like a live performance. Listen on a pair of desktop speakers or a full 5.1 speaker system.
Hear headphone surround that sounds like multichannel speakers Hear headphone surround that sounds like multichannel speakers
Slip on your headphones and X-Fi technology moves the sound away from your ears and into the space around you. You'll be surrounded by multiple virtual speakers and feel like you're sitting with your favorite band or in the best seat in the movie theater. Games sound better too with positional audio that's so accurate you can locate enemies by sound.
Enjoy realistic sound effects in games Enjoy realistic sound effects in games
Experience realistic sound effects and 3D surround that make you feel like you're actually in the game. Over 400 existing games use Creative EAX® sound effects to provide better gaming sound.
And if you're using Windows Vista™, Creative ALchemy restores surround sound for the same great gaming experience.
Enjoy the ultimate PC movie experience
Watch your DVDs in cinematic surround sound with PowerDVD software featuring DTS™ and Dolby Digital®-EX decoding (free download with purchase).
Specifications
Technical Specs
Playback: 24-Bit/96kHz up to 7.1
Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 104dB (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted)
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz: 0.007% (20kHz Low-pass filter)
Recording: 24-bit/96kHz
X-Fi Technology: X-Fi Crystalizer, X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual,
X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone
Connectivity
Line in / Microphone In: Shared 1/8” mini jack
Speaker Out: 4x 1/8” mini jacks
Optical Out: Toslink1
Optical In: Toslink
Intel HD Audio Compatible Front Panel Header: 2x 5-pin
1 Digital Out supports stereo SPDIF out and pass through of multichannel DVD sound.
Software
* Creative Audio Console
* Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer
* Get PowerDVD
* Creative Volume Panel
* Creative SoundFont Bank Manager
* Creative Software Autoupdate
* Creative Console Launcher
* Creative Diagnostics
* Creative ALchemy
Requirements
* Microsoft® Windows Vista™, Microsoft Windows® XP (Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 2 or Media Center Edition)
* Intel® Pentium® 4 1.6 GHz, AMD® Athlon XP 2000+ processor or equivalent
* Available PCI Express® slot (1x, 4x or 16x)
* 256MB RAM (512MB RAM for Windows Vista™)
* 600MB of free hard disk space
* CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
* Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately)
* Internet connection to download PowerDVD software
Package Contents
* PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card
* Installation CD
* Quick Start leaflet