Today we?ll be testing the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro and also take a quick peek at X-Fi Extreme Music. Sound cards are not something we at NordicHardware test as thoroughly as motherboards, graphics cards or processors. Sound cards can sometimes be almost forgotten when looking for the perfect benchmark results. Surely, it is hard to quantify sound card performance in the same way as we measure our other components, but it doesn?t make it less important.



X-Fi doesn?t just mean a bunch of new products with improved DA transformers and a newly designed breakout box, but more of a fundamental shift of generations that?s happening. Keep in mind that it?s about seven years ago since Creative launched a completely new chip. For example, the old SoundBlaster Live! uses the same fundamental technology just like the recent SoundBlaster Audigy 4 Pro.

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