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Creative Labs SB0790 PCI Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound Card

Creative Labs SB0790 PCI Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound Card

(50 customer reviews)

List Price:	$59.99
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Description:

Revitalize your downloaded music and moviesRestore the details and vibrance your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so youll hear it all-crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions. Surround sound from your stereo music and movies. 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. Headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers. Headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers. Headphone surround that sounds like a room full of speakers.

Features:

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Device Type - Sound card

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Interface Type - External

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Localization - English

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Signal Processor/Chipset Vendor - Intel, AMD

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Sound Output Mode - Multi channel

Product Details:

Product Length:	0.0 inches
Product Width:	0.0 inches
Product Height:	0.0 inches
Product Weight:	0.9 pounds
Package Length:	11.2 inches
Package Width:	7.8 inches
Package Height:	2.4 inches
Package Weight:	0.95 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 50 reviews

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Customer Reviews:

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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116 of 119 found the following review helpful:

Caveat emptor...Apr 09, 2007
By Christopher M. Hill
Despite being sold as an X-Fi card, this particular model does not use the X-Fi chipset. In fact it uses a variation of the Audigy 2 SE chipset. This is further confirmed by the fact that this card uses different drivers than the rest of the X-Fi line, and is not recognized as an X-Fi card in games. The main problem with this is you cannot uses any of the X-Fi features in games like you would expect. Try using this card in Battlefield 2142 and you will see what I mean.

Creative Labs should be ashamed of themselves for this blatant act of marketing fraud. When someone buys a Ferrari, they are expecting to get a Ferrari, not a Honda with a Ferrari emblem on the front. But that is exactly what Creative Labs has done here. They are marketing this sound card as a high-end brand (X-Fi) when it is really a crippled version of the previous product line (SE model Audigy). They must have a glut of unsold chips and they thought they could pull a fast one on consumers with this cheap card.

I for one will be very cautious before I consider purchasing Creative Labs products in the future. Buyer beware!

16 of 17 found the following review helpful:

This Card Gets a Bum RapJun 22, 2009
By MassiveAttack
While Creative pulled a underhanded move with the naming of this card (X-Fi is a misnomer), this is a great card IF you know what you are getting.
There are two reasons to hate this card: Crappy drivers and gaming performance. As for the drivers, Creative is notoriously slack. However, I am running this card on Windows 7 with zero issues (use Creative's Win7 driver at their site, not the included disc). As for gaming performance, buy a different card! The internet has made smarter shoppers of us all. READ about what you order, and you won't be disappointed.

All of that said, this card is great for music. The reason a non-gamer would want a dedicated card is to take advantage of superior DAC chips and analog stages. In that regard, you're gonna be hard-pressed to find a better deal than the Xtreme Audio. The sound quality for music (my primary concern) is stellar as compared to all but the highest end motherboard solutions. If that's what you're after in a sound card, this is the one for you.

Oh, and I were you, I'd install just the driver. It includes the audio console and all of the necessary switches for X-Fi enhancements, speaker settings, etc. The other 500MB of stuff is mostly silly and redundant. That's just my opinion , though.

It's true that the X-Fi "enhancements" are processed using your cpu, and not via hardware chip. This would have sucked many years ago, but these days even $500 computers have 3.0ghz dual core processors. Personally, I don't make any use of the "enhancements" as I'm one of those jerk audiophile purists who likes an unmolested signal. It excels here, offering a dead-silent SNR (106, I believe, and it sounds like that claim isn't too far off the mark). Basically, it offers superior, clean sound free of the noise that most onboard sound is notorious for. The actual musical quality of the signal is better, too, owing to the superior audio hardware as compared to motherboards.

I haven't used the mic, which is another source of complaints. Basically, if you don't need X-Fi effects for games, don't do a lot of recording, and only have $50 (or less, on eBay) to dedicate to your tunes, you should get this card. If you KNOW what you are getting, you'll be very happy with it.

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Not happy with Creative.Feb 20, 2008
By M. Robinson "mont2002"
Marketing this as an X-FI card is dishonest. The card itself, and the included software, work very well in windows XP and is all I need for my uses but marketing an audigy chip under the x-fi name has made me very dissapointed with creative.

11 of 13 found the following review helpful:

If only you could install the updatesMay 17, 2007
By jacknaz
I got this my old sound card could not work on Vista, but although this is on the Vista list of compatible hardware you might as well use your motherboard sound than buy this card thinking it works on Vista.

Sure, you get a driver for Vista on the Creative site, but the software doesn't work! I am going back to xp and my turtle beach card and great software and donate my x-fi to the goodwill. Creative admits that the card is not Vista compatible ("if it doesn't say so on the box, it is not compatible"). All you get is sound, no mixer or console, and it will not work with recording software such as Total Recorder on Vista. And with their loopy update it won't install on xp.

8 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Not Vista readyApr 16, 2007
By Michael G. Lustig
This card works in Vista if you download the Vista driver from Creative's website; however, none of the Creative applications work at all. I expect that this will be fixed in the future but who knows how long that will take.

The Digital I/O module is a good add-on. See my review there for installation instructions.

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