Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Review

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Mirko Sitic's Review of Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Audio Interface and Sound Card

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Ease of Set Up
    5 stars
  • Time Sound Card Used
    1 - 6 Months
Good Points

-Great sound with speakers and headphones
-Easy installation
-Offloads CPU


Bad Points

-No linux drivers


General Comments

Primarily bought the Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty card for gaming as my onboard audio was not efficient enough with Doom3 , CS and BF2. With X-Fi I am now playing at highest settings with full EAX effects. The best of all the features is the surround sound over regular headphones, it is simply unbelievable. Another very cool thing about X-Fi is that it has an option to enhance mp3 so that they sound better. This appears a bit gimmicky first, but it works great. Somehow it adds more space so that single instruments stand out more and makes transient sounds audible. Of course it does not work miracles all the time, but in most cases I have this setting on at about 50%. Very intuitive, elegant and sleek UI helps to get the best of this card with no need to study manual. I really did not expect so much from just a soundcard.

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