$46 X-Fi Extreme gamer

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This is the best price I have seen with no rebate needed, act fast if your interested.

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[Schadenfroh]

Nice price, shame it is not PCI-E... I am running out of PCI slots. I take it that this one does not have the audio ram on it? (not that it matters much)

 

[BlockheadBrown]

Great deal! Looks like they're ramping up for the new X-Fi release.

 

[ELopes580]

New x-fi?

 

[chizow]

Great price, especially with no rebate.

The new X-Fi Titanium is already out, and offers PCIE and DDLive/DTS Connect real-time encoding and output. PCIE should clear up any residual PCI bus noise/conflicts and DDLive/DTS Connect is a feature many have wanted on Sound Blaster cards since it was introduced with NF2's SoundStorm. Its good but not good enough to shell out $150 for imo. Also, keep in mind Creative has promised DDLive/DTS connect enabling drivers for all X-Fi....but they said July for Beta drivers and we still don't have them.

If you're going for these options you're better off waiting for the Auzentech X-Fi Home Theater which will offer both of those features along with full HDMI 1.3 support (lossless/uncompressed HD bitstreams and 8ch LPCM over HDMI). All of this with EAX 5 in games too.

 

[drkicker]

I jumped on this deal this morning. I can finally get rid of my onboard audio. I also picked up an 8800GT to go with it. I should have fun gaming in a few days when it all gets here.

 

[Raider1284]

Just a heads up, this is the crippled x-fi card. You might want something like the xtreme music, which is a full fledged x-fi card.

"Buy the XtremeMusic, the rest are just gimmicks. It costs a little more, but the XtremeMusic is the lowest end on the "real" X-Fi line (yes the others use the X-Fi chips but they are crippled)"

"The stripped down cards lack a few ports, can not work with the X-Fi series of bay drives, and maybe have slightly lower quality DACs (do NOT quote me on that!!!). Plus I think they do not come with all the software as the other X-Fi cards (which if you ask me is probably a good thing)."

"it already showed that xtremegamer is a lower-end of xfi..."

 

[curtisfong]

Originally posted by: Raider1284
Just a heads up, this is the crippled x-fi card. You might want something like the xtreme music, which is a full fledged x-fi card.

This card is not crippled; you are thinking of the xtreme audio. The xtreme music has been discontinued, but can still be found online.

 

[Crono]

This is an excellent card, and there is definitely a huge difference between onboard sound and this, provided you aren't using really cheap quality speakers.

 

[james1701]

I ordered one this afternoon when I got the email add. Too bad it doe not come with a TosLink. I guess I will have to buy one to hook up my reciever to my sound card.

 

[mdcrab]

Deal is dead.

 

[cruzer]

Originally posted by: chizow
Great price, especially with no rebate.

The new X-Fi Titanium is already out, and offers PCIE and DDLive/DTS Connect real-time encoding and output. PCIE should clear up any residual PCI bus noise/conflicts and DDLive/DTS Connect is a feature many have wanted on Sound Blaster cards since it was introduced with NF2's SoundStorm. Its good but not good enough to shell out $150 for imo. Also, keep in mind Creative has promised DDLive/DTS connect enabling drivers for all X-Fi....but they said July for Beta drivers and we still don't have them.

If you're going for these options you're better off waiting for the Auzentech X-Fi Home Theater which will offer both of those features along with full HDMI 1.3 support (lossless/uncompressed HD bitstreams and 8ch LPCM over HDMI). All of this with EAX 5 in games too.

Thanks for the info! :thumbsup:

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: mdcrab
Deal is dead.

Yeah, I wanted one too.

 

[james1701]

Mine will be here Monday. One of the best deals I have gotten in a while. Last week I picked up a D Link Wireless N router for 39.99 shipped when they had the deal.

 

[Neumi]

New X-Fi Titanium is not able however to DECODE DD/dts onboard like the other X-Fis used to. Of course I didn't know that when I bought it

 

[badnewcastle]

I got this from the last shell shock... for 39.99 plus tax. Kicks the shIt out of my onboard!!!!!!!!!!