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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
$100.00
Released January, 2009
The Pros:Discrete hardware-based EAX 5.0 sound effects and 3D positional audio. Surround sound output via optical audio useful for HTPC builds. X-Fi Crystalizer - compressed music enhancement for use with downloaded songs.
The Cons:Users must switch between the sound modes (entertainment, gaming, etc). Requires a free PCI-Express slot. 5.1 surround sound mode requires software to be installed.
The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium is the economy product in its line, which also includes the X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series and the X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series. However, like its companion products, the X-Fi Titanium puts you in the heart of the gaming experience with 5.0 EAX sound effects and 3-D positional audio, and it offers 5.1 Dolby surround sound through both speakers and headphones.
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Not only does this enhance the experience, but it also provides great audio for music and movie playback. Plus, with 0.001% total harmonic distortion (THD) and a dedicated headphone amplifier, the X-Fi Titanium offers clearer voice chat for the ultimate MMO gaming experience.
The X-Fi Titanium also allows features low-latency ASIO drivers so users can record their own music.
Features
- 5.0 EAX sound effects and 3-D positional audio
- 5.1 Dolby surround sound (speakers and headphones)
- hardware acceleration to boost gaming performance
- PCI express bus connection
- low-latency ASIO drivers for music recording
- Xtreme Fidelity for high-quality audio during music playback
- PowerDVD for high-quality audio during DVD movie playback
- 1/8" headphone and microphone jacks
- 0.001% THD
- up to 7.1 speaker support
- dedicated headphone amplifier in back of card
- 24-bit, 96kHz, 118dB digital-to-analog converters (DACs)
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discrete hardware-based EAX 5.0 sound effects and 3D positional audio
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surround sound output via optical audio useful for HTPC builds
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X-Fi Crystalizer - compressed music enhancement for use with downloaded songs
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users must switch between the sound modes (entertainment, gaming, etc)
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requires a free PCI-Express slot
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5.1 surround sound mode requires software to be installed
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will likely have to download the latest drivers from Creative for Windows Vista and Windows 7 compatibility
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