Sound Blaster X-Fi Issues Explored
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 01/02/2007 02:01 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ] · 4409 views
Back in May, we published an article and report about many issues reported on the latest Creative Labs product ? The Sound Blaster X-Fi. A few weeks later Creative released information and blamed DDR Dual Channel for these related issues. And, after a few months, they changed their version and blamed Nvidia?s nForce4 for these issues, instead. Nvidia never responded to us about their side in the story, but they denied it on a chat.
We kept following this story and we received a lot of reports from users without nForce4 that claimed they had the same issues. So, to investigate these issues, we grabbed an X-Fi XtremeMusic from the closest hardware store and checked it out on the following motherboards: Asus M2R32-MVP, Asus A8N-SLI, Asus A8N32-SLI, ECS RS482-M and Gigabyte GA-965P. We used Windows XP SP2 with the latest updates and the latest drivers for all the devices. We also used the latest BIOS versions and ensured that the X-Fi was not sharing an IRQ with any other device by plugging it into non-shared PCI slot.
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We kept following this story and we received a lot of reports from users without nForce4 that claimed they had the same issues. So, to investigate these issues, we grabbed an X-Fi XtremeMusic from the closest hardware store and checked it out on the following motherboards: Asus M2R32-MVP, Asus A8N-SLI, Asus A8N32-SLI, ECS RS482-M and Gigabyte GA-965P. We used Windows XP SP2 with the latest updates and the latest drivers for all the devices. We also used the latest BIOS versions and ensured that the X-Fi was not sharing an IRQ with any other device by plugging it into non-shared PCI slot.
NGOHQ.com
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Mertsch Senior Member Posts: 2708 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#65782 Posted on: 01/02/2007 07:18 PM
hmmmm using 5mobos and talking about something like 40% isn't that useful .... it works well for my Abit AV8 so make it 2/6 .... and start counting |
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Kaleid Senior Member Posts: 5 Joined: 2004-11-07 |
#65783 Posted on: 01/03/2007 02:35 AM
X-fi extrememusic is what I have. Used without problems with VIA KT880, KT890, Nforce 4 Sli and now Intel P965... The SPDIF output seems broken though since it's sounds distorted. I suppose this has to do with too high output. |
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blackcat77 Unregistered |
#65785 Posted on: 01/03/2007 08:03 AM
I just got a new mobo over the weekend and the onboard sound was just as good as my X-Fi delivered so it's on a shelf in my closet. It seemed very sensitive to drivers while I used it. The drivers on the disk that came with the card where great, but the upgraded drivers were awful. Ditto when I tried to use it on Vista this summer. The sound was so bad that it caused me to unistall the OS and go back to XP. Anyway, it's one less card and fewer used resources with no discernable difference in sound so I guess I win. |
