Creative Xtremegamer is a POS

[-Psy-]

Yup. What a waste of money. All it seems to do is give me a load of crackling, popping and static noises. I've checked the speakers and they're fine.

It's a shame really because apart from the random noises, it's sounds awesome. So, anybody got any non-Creative soundcard suggestions?

 

[Ridge]

Is there a brand other than Creative that makes sound cards?

Seriously, get an X-Fi...it'll do wonders!

 

[giant384]

^ there are tons others that make sound cards.

also the xtremegamer is an xfi card.

what kind of speaker system do you have op? i had an old 4.1 system and plugged it into my audigy 4 and it would have that problem; then i bought my logitech x-530s and the problem was gone.

 

[-Psy-]

I'll have to try it again on Monday when my new components arrive. :/

 

[Ridge]

I have an X-Fi Xtreme Music with a cheap 2.1 sound system and its awesome....

 

[Asus]

Asus Xonar D2 (Asus AV200 chip, Burr-Brown DACs, EAX 2.0, OpenAL)
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude (Creative X-Fi chip, AK4396VF DACs, EAX Advanced HD 5.0, later support for Dolby Digital Live)
Auzentech X-Meridian (C-Media Oxygen HD CMI8788 chip, AKM 4396VF DACs, EAX 2.0, Dolby Digital Live)

M-Audio Revolution (Via Envy24HT chip)
Sondigo Inferno (C-Media Oxygen HD CMI8788 chip, AK3496 DACs, EAX 2.0)

I'm actually thinking about getting a sound card myself. But mainly for the DACs and music quality. Didn't mind not having advanced EAX support before and now with Vista kicking that in the balls I won't have to. OpenAL will probably be what Creative and other sound companies go to in the future for a hardware sound accelerated API, at least under Vista.
Picked up some Grados and using the decent built-in headphone amp in my Z2300 speakers.