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Creative may now dominate the sound card market with even competitors like Auzentech using its technology, but thankfully the company still has its eye on innovation. While most sound cards are designed to be fitted in older, slower PCI slots, the Fatal1t...
There's no doubt that the Fatal1ty Pro is a top-class performer. Its support for EAX 5.0 HD and OpenAL is exemplary, as is its performance with music and film sound tracks. However, it is a tad expensive and has relatively limited connectivity which narro...
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custompc.co.uk Updated: 2011-09-26 03:05:10
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This is the first Creative PCI-E sound card thats worth buying, and it does everything it should. Its a solid all-round card thats well suited to music, movies and games. If youre after a PCI-E sound card for gaming, its a better option than the...
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First announced in May 2008, the new X-Fi Titanium series (taking over from the X-Fi Platinum series) comes in two different flavours. The first, cheaper option, is the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series, which you can...
Great value, Brilliant sound...
PCI-E might limit the market...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated: 2011-09-26 03:05:10
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Creatives Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium sound card fits into the PCI-E x1 slot on a motherboard. Installing the card was easy, although its metal shield came very close to touching the graphics card in the PCI-E x16 slot below it. Most motherboard la...
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computeractive.co.uk Updated: 2011-09-26 03:05:10
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Although the latest gaming PCs are fitted with faster PCI Express card slots, most soundcards are still designed to be plugged into older, slower PCI slots. This is where the Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty comes in. It’s a x1 PCI Express card (it...
Brilliant performance in games; great overall sound quality; good sound enhancement options...
Very expensive...
The Titanium Fatal1ty is a great performer in games, but it’s very expensive in comparison to rival gaming cards...
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PC audio is often taken for granted. Because pretty much every motherboard has an audio chip built-in, most of us dont need to think about what type of sound card we need. However, for keen gamers who rely on sound effects to avoid getting killed, as...
Very good sound quality, plenty of filters and settings to play with, ASIO 2.0 support, good 3-D effects for headphone users...
Software takes a long time to install...
This card shines for gaming and entertainment, and its also a good entry point for anyone who wants to start making music on their PC...
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vortez.net Updated: 2015-05-01 09:53:03
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£106 - X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard£69.99 - MK II HeadsetVision has always been an important factor in our lives. Without it we don’t imagine. Film, television and computers have become paramount in raising our awareness of the visual...
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toptenreviews.com Updated: 2011-09-26 03:05:10
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There is more controversy about Creative than any other sound card manufacturer. Creative has been around since the '80s and has had a few bumps in the road, but for a time they were the standard sound card provider for PCs. Now it seems the fan base i...
The Fatal1ty Pro has a nice balance of home theater and gaming support...
It doesn’t have any coaxial support.
A great all-purpose sound card...
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Back in the dark ages of PC gaming, when MS-DOS was the usual platform and the mouse was an optional affair, one had two choices for getting sound out of the PC. Choice one: get a Sound Blaster card, and let the games do their thing mostly unassisted...
The question I hear over and over when discussing this card with friends is this: “Why bother with a sound card at all? Isn’t the motherboard’s sound good enough these days?” Indeed, if you’re not terribly picky about sound q...
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Also check out our Interview With Darragh OToole, Creative about the new PCI Express X-Fi sound cards. The birth of PCI Express cards The "relationships" between the PCI Express bus and Creative were not shaping well. At first, the company tried to co...
Our tests prove the good quality of the new X-Fi Titanium family. These cards are honestly positioned for gamers now, being the best choice in this category. PCI Express itself does not give any benefits to the cards. But X-Fi Titaniums, owing to Crea...
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HardCOREware.net Updated: 2011-09-26 03:05:10
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When we last reviewed a gaming soundcard, Creative had just launched the first Sound Blaster product based on the X-Fi controller. This controller features hardware acceleration of DirectSound 3D, freeing up resources for the CPU. It even had its ow...
Sounds great still Full 8 channel output on the card Optical digital input AND output ALchemy fixes some games EAX still sounds great in the few games that use it Free DTS and Dolby Digital passthrough Finally, a use for those PCIE X1 slots!...
Onboard audio has caught up in quality Vista severely hampers overall usefulness of this product Expensive...
When we first reviewed the X-Fi Fatal1ty in 2006, we called it the "soundcard of the future". Mostly because many of the features were beyond what game developers ever had access to, and very few used them (at the time, only two games had X-R...
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Creative has been a leader in the PC audio market for as long as I can remember. In fact, the first Sound Blaster card hit the market almost 20 years ago, which can be considered an eternity in "computer years". During this time, Creative has launched...
We know for a fact many people still use integrated audio, and perhaps they see no big reason to switch. Audio is audio and it all sounds the same, right? Absolutely not! Most people aren’t too concerned with audio unless they have been subjected to h...
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pureoverclock.com Updated: 2011-09-26 03:05:10
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Creative Labs X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty sound card is the audio companys latest release, and this time its an attempt at providing a quality product with a PCI-e interface in a market that is woefully underdeveloped. Boasting some extensive features an...
The arrival of Creatives Titanium Fatal1ty is good news for gamers, as it seems to have overcome the troubles of its earlier siblings, particularly with drivers and Windows Vista. Very aware of this history, I spent a great deal of time testing this c...
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v3.co.uk Updated: 2011-09-26 03:05:10
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Although the latest gaming PCs are fitted with faster PCI Express card slots, most soundcards are still designed to be plugged into older, slower PCI slots. This is where the Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty comes in. It’s a x1 PCI Express card (it...
Brilliant performance in games; great overall sound quality; good sound enhancement options...
Very expensive...
The Titanium Fatal1ty is a great performer in games, but it’s very expensive in comparison to rival gaming cards...
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This X-Fi looks totally different from any youve seen before. Its shielded to prevent any interference from nearby expansion cards. Its rear ports are color coded, something Creative has been sporadically lax about. It contains a standard front-panel...
Outstanding gaming audio with excellent positional accuracy; brilliant movie audio; full compatibility with all games.
Requires software activation, even with minimal installation; muted Windows sounds in Vista.
Sound Blaster finally does PCI Express in style, and we like it.Performance Test Res...
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