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X-Fi Fatal1ty Edition Product Code: SB0466 Price: Check Latest MODEL- SB0466 VENDOR- CREATIVE LABS FEATURES- Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Enhance Your Music, Games and Movies With Xtreme Fidelity! Designed to meet the performance demands of the worlds best-known professional gamer, Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS sound card provides stunning 109dB SNR audio quality, accelerates gaming performance and includes 64MB of on-board X-RAM for high performance gaming. With support for EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0, the latest version of the EAX Environmental Audio standard, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS card utilizes X-Fi CMSS 3D technology for stunning audio realism over headphones in LAN gaming. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS features a convenient front- facing internal drive bay for easy connectivity, plus the X-Fi IR remote to easily access and control all digital entertainment, and to control the X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer, X-Fi CMSS 3D, 3DMIDI and EAX. In addition to providing outstanding gaming performance, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS includes all of the standard features, application software, power and performance capabilities of the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum and Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic. Harness the full power of Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic by selecting one of its 3 usage modes: - Entertainment Mode - Gaming Mode - Audio Creation Mode Includes Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS PCI Card; X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS I/O Drive; Quick Start Leaflet; Remote Control; 2x mini MIDI to standard MIDI adapter cables; 3.50 mm (1/8-inch) to 6.35 mm (1/4- inch) plug adapter; 2x Batteries (AA); Screws for assembly; Installation and Applications CD containing: Drivers for Windows XP, Creative Software Suite, Doom 3 Sound Blaster EAX patch, User Guide. * ENTERTAINMENT MODE For Xtreme Fidelity Music and Movies - X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer enhances MP3s and movies to sound better than they do on their original CD or DVD. Utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor your music and movie audio is sent through a two-step quality enhancement process. First the processor converts the audio into 24-bit/96kHz quality using its virtually transparent SRC (Sample Rate Converter) engine. Then it remasters and selectively enhances the audio by analyzing and identifying which parts of the audio stream have been restricted/damaged during the compression stages to 16-bit and then to MP3. Music Benefits: Low and high frequencies are enhanced while the dynamics are improved. Overall your music will sound cleaner, smoother and will sparkle! Movie Benefits: Explosions, gun-shots and high-impact audio sequences sound more realistic than ever before! - X-Fi CMSS-3D allows you to Upgrade your MP3 music and movies into surround sound with headphones or multichannel speakers. Enjoy your stereo MP3s and movies in surround sound with X-Fi CMSS-3D technology. Instead of performing a basic upmixing of stereo content, the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor intelligently remixes the audio into surround sound to match the speaker system you have (including headphones). It also uses advanced techniques to extract specific audio elements, like voice to the center channel and ambience to the surrounding channels, so your music and movies sound more alive than ever before! Music Benefits: Convert static stereo music into amazing surround sound with multichannel speakers, plus enjoy the same surround sound experience with headphones! Movie Benefits: When watching stereo or multichannel movies with headphones or speakers, X-Fi CMSS-3D allows you to enjoy incredible surround sound that will amaze you. - SuperRip allows you to rip your CDs into Xtreme Fidelity quality. The X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer and X-Fi CMSS-3D features allow you to "SuperRip" CDs into Xtreme Fidelity quality so you can now enjoy permanently enhanced music instead of low-quality MP3 files! - Enjoy the latest cinematic technologies for the ultimate PC movie experience! Experience incredible audio with THX certified quality and unbeatable movie sound with DTS-ES and Dolby Digital EX decoding! * GAMING MODE For Ultimate Gaming Performance and Maximum Realism - Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS delivers the fastest gaming performance ever! A completely re-engineered game audio processing engine utilizing Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor allows Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS to deliver the fastest gaming performance ever seen, providing more than a 15% performance boost over motherboard audio solutions while simultaneously delivering full audio effects! - Sound Blaster X-Fi - The first sound card with Xtreme Fidelity RAM. X-RAM allows developers to deliver even higher quality audio samples that can be loaded into dedicated audio RAM rather than system RAM, which would affect overall performance. In certain implementations it can further boost performance beyond the standard Sound Blaster X-Fi technology. - X-Fi CMSS-3D delivers an amazingly realistic surround sound experience with headphones. Know exactly where your enemies are whether you are using headphones or speakers. You will not believe how good X-Fi CMSS-3D positional gaming audio is; in fact, it is so good you will forget you are wearing headphones! - EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 delivers incredibly realistic gaming audio! Features like 128 voice support, EAX MacroFX, EAX PurePath and Environment FlexiFX set a new standard for EAX and realism available in gaming audio. - X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer automatically Upgrades existing games into Xtreme Fidelity. Experience gaming audio that sounds more dynamic and realistic than you could ever imagine! * AUDIO CREATION MODE For Pristine Audio Recording Quality - Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic offers high quality, feature-rich recording. Utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor, you will get the most advanced features and effects of any audio processor for music and audio creation currently available, delivering pristine audio playback quality. The Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor features a near transparent SRC engine that converts to and from any resolution at 136dB THD+N, and also provides digital-matched recording capabilities in resolutions from 44.1kHz to 96kHz. You will also get support for ASIO recordings with latency as low as one millisecond, up to eight different hardware effects, 24-bit SoundFont sampling, and 3DMIDI for amazing flexibility and recording results. -- SPECIFICATIONs ---------------------------------- INTERFACE - PCI 32-bit bus-mastering TECHNICAL - 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 stereo digital sources at 192kHz to stereo output. 16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz. ASIO 2.0 support at 16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/ 44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring. Enhanced SoundFont support at up to 24-bit resolution. 64MB of X-RAM AUDIO PERFORMANCE- (Rated Output @ 2Vrms) Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted) - Stereo Output: 109dB - Front and Rear Channels: 109dB - Center, Subwoofer and Side Channels: 109dB Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (20kHz Low-pass filter) = 0.004%. Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input ) = <10Hz to 46kHz. Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/192kHz input) = <10Hz to 88kHz (Stereo only). CONNECTORS - On-Board : FlexiJack (Performing a 3-in-1 function, Digital In/Line In/Microphone) via 3.5 mm minijack. Line level out (Front/Rear/Center/Subwoofer/Rear Center) via 3.50 mm minijacks. AUX_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card. One AD_Link (26 pin) connector for linking to the X-Fi I/O Console (Upgrade option). I/O Drive: Two RCA jacks for coaxial SPDIF input and output Two RCA jacks for Auxiliary input Two optical connectors for optical SPDIF input and output. Two mini MIDI female connectors for MIDI input and output. Headphone output and volume control via 6.35 mm (1/4-inch) stereo jack. Shared line-level analog Line/Microphone input via 6.35 mm (1/4-inch) stereo jack. SOFTWARE - Includes Creative Entertainment Center " Creative MediaSource 3 REQUIREMENTS - Genuine Intel Pentium III 1 GHz, AMD 1 GHz processor or faster. Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) 256MB RAM 600MB of free hard disk space Available PCI 2.1 slot for the audio card Available drive bay for X-Fi I/O Drive CD-ROM/CD-RW or CD/DVD-ROM required for software installation. Graphics card with DirectX 9 and OpenGL compliant 3D graphics accelerator. MANUFACTURER WARRANTY:  1 YEAR

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