Customer Reviews
worth it 
2008-03-27
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro Series Sound Card ( 70SB046A00000 )Packaged well and securely,was delivered within time frame that amazon said.Put this card in a new computer,went in with no problems.Loaded the software,checked for updates and set up the sound the way i wanted it,was easy to do.Has a variety
of options for mode,balance and style.Tried sound in gamer and entertainment modes and played with the other controls.Installed fast and easy and set up quickly.Games sound great on this card.Highly recommended.
great sound card 2008-03-26
Wonderful sound, beats the pants off built in sound cards, and rips MP3s like in seconds. Truely amazing sound card, Now a driver improvement by creative would help, as windoze vista drivers suck big time.
So-So 
2008-03-24
I love creative products, but sometimes they just price themselves out of usefulness, that and drivers... oh drivers.
I went out and tried to fix a sound problem i was having with vista by throwing money at it, i figured well, creative is 'the best' well it turns out, that at this time last year, NOONE had good vista drivers, and well i wasted a bunch of money for no reason. I'm sure vista drivers have came a long way, but i still have a sour taste in my mouth.
Anyways, if you have money to burn, it doesn't get better than this card, if you are even remotely worried about dollars per performance, then get a lower end X-Fi, as the sound quality will be identical, and the performance difference will be completely negligible.
Great card poor instructions 
2008-03-11
I purchased this card for the single reason of improving game performance over my onboard sound. It has done that.
However one fear I had came true when I went to install the card. Lack of advanced install instructions. I have sound outputs on my case that I would like to use however the install instructions do not give me any idea where to plug this in on the card. They lost a big point for that. Also most hardware people know that your onboard card needs to be disabled for maximum performance increases. This is also no where to be found.
I am overall glad I bought this card but wish Creative would show a bit more of a professional edge with their documentation.
Easy to install and great sound 2008-03-10
This card works great on my Vista 64 machine. No problems and I look forward to playing with some of the software packages it comes with.
Very good sound card 2008-07-09
I like this card a lot.It's way better then my old one,which came with Abit mother board.There is a lot of software comes with this card.But if you have Nvidea chipset this card has some issues,so you have to check with Creative labs if they fix it.
im liking this for cod4 2008-06-24
My old sound card was not providing accurate sound in Call of Duty 4 with headphones. I figured i'd give this a try since i heard the CMSS-3D the x-fi had was great. The sound the x-fi giving me seems to be a bit more accurate than my previous card
AMAZING SOUND CARD GREAT BUY 2008-06-14
The BEST 10+ it works what an awesome sound card it actually works
i've been frustrated for years about my Auzentech 7.1 thx gpu but i actually found a soundcard that WORKS !!!!!!!!
Still bugged and now doesn't have MP3 Encoding!!!!!! 
2008-05-22
This card is bugged to death with problems. MP3s randomly play at twice the speed. WMAs suddenly won't play and instead hiss or screech. To top off this incredibly poor bundle of rubbish, they won't even provide you with MP3 encoding so you can rip your CD collection - you have to buy that separately. This is incredulous for such an expensive card. I will NEVER buy from Creative again, their attitude and expertise with technology is worse than ever!!
Update (05/25/2008) - The "Super Rip" mode was generating garbage when I ripped using the "surround 5.1" option. I sent a support ticket to Creative and they fobbed me off with an article on how to record audio! Well, for starters, I'm no idiot and know how to rip CDs! On top of that, most of the email contained advertising for other products. It seems they don't care about their customers at all - they just want their money.
Well, I'm shoving this card in my old PC and I'll be getting an Asus Xonar D2 soon. I had to return several products in the last 6 months. It seems most manufacturers can't produce a quality kit any more. What's going on with tech these days? Does anything work? Some friends have told me to "hang in there" with X-Fi and wait for better drivers? Well, I don't really care anymore as I will follow Asus now. If they patch the X-Fi that would be great, but this company's record on product quality and customer service is appauling. I'll not be made a sucker again.
sound card 2008-04-15
Device manager is constantly needing to be reassigned. Is constantly resetting to default. I do not recommend this product.
