Creative Labs SB0886 PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series Sound Card
- Accurate 3D positional audio
- Dolby Digital Live encoding – Connects directly to your home theater system
- Hardware accelerated performance – Get unbeatable performance in your favorite games
- X-RAM – Boost performance even further in games like Quake 4, Battlefield 2, Prey, Unreal Tournament 3
- Clearer voice chat – Plug in your headset or microphone and hear the difference.
Product Description
Few recognize that, with the PC’s improved graphics performance, sound cards only barely matched audio performance demands. Here’s a sound upgrade card that greatly improves your sonic experience. Chosen by professional gamers, the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality Professional Series sound card delivers the ultimate PC gaming audio experience. You’ll hear realistic EAX 5 sound effects and 3D positional audio that’s so accurate you can locate opponents by sound – even over headphones. Plus, get unbeatable performance in your games with hardware accelerated audio and X-RAM. Cinematic surround sound from DVD movies – Watch your DVDs in cinematic surround sound with PowerDVD software featuring DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 96kHz sample rate 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of… More >>
Creative Labs SB0886 PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series Sound Card
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5 comments
Keith Tokash on December 12, 2009 at 11:44 pm
I bought this card as part of my new “dream box” after spending over a year studying for a test (and passing
). This box is running Ubuntu 8.04, and out of everything, this sound card is the only thing giving me problems. And by problems I mean it doesn’t work. At all. There are pages upon pages of people asking how to get this thing working, and Creative’s single driver is outdated and borderline useless.
So though it pains me to say this (not too painful as my NVidia 9800 GTX is doing a fine job powering my 30″ Samsung LCD at 2560×1600 with an up-to-date driver), I’m probably going to have to return this product and go with a different vendor. This isn’t a “let’s punish the vendor because I’m an offended geek” move, it’s more of a “I have no sound” move.
So I can’t comment on the Windows experience, which is probably most people, but with Vista being perhaps the worst Microsoft operating system ever, and XP being phased out by resellers like Dell, HP, etcetera, it behooves us all to choose gear that doesn’t lock us into one company’s shoddy products. If you think that you’ll NEVER run anything but Windows, this line of sound cards might work out for you. I like to leave my options open.
Jason Chamberlain on December 13, 2009 at 2:26 am
I installed this product, wrestled with the software for it, including the patch needed to make it work with Vista, and then found it did not provide any advantage with my video games. In fact, I uninstalled it and went back to using the on board Realtek sound chip with better results.
Poorer but wiser, I would recommend not buying this product, at least if you use the Vista OS.
Ron007 on December 13, 2009 at 2:27 am
I bought the X-Fi Titanium hoping that it would work with Windows Vista or XP on a machine with an Nvidia 790i motherboard and Nvidia 9800GX2, but it doesn’t.
I don’t know why (creative support team doesn’t know either) the card produces crackling and popping sounds from my rear speakers when I use the Dolby Digital or DTS Connect with my 9800GX2 in SLI while I am gaming. Many people has the same issues as me (in 790i EVGA forums), but untill now, there are no driver updates, patches, etc., that may fix this problem.
I have always had issues with my creative sound cards, but this time I believed that this Vista Certified product would work as expected but it doesn’t.
I regret my purchase, I will never buy another creative product ever.
Daniel P. Ribeiro on December 13, 2009 at 5:03 am
I always liked creative sound cards. And this is the best sound card they made until today. So… I don’t need to say anything else. It’s great! Watching blurays with it is wonderful!
M. P. Alligood on December 13, 2009 at 7:45 am
Great upgrade from my integrated sound card. I primarily watch movies on my PC, and this sound card really brings out the audio experience.