is it worth getting??????

[Lemonking]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102188



is it worth ordering? someone tell me!

Im off to work for now...cya all later.

 

[Lemonking]

ehhh...I just saw this is the wrong board -_-


move plz

 

[Ennui]

movified.

 

[Javert]

Unless you're into DJ-ing or music production, I don't see the need of such an intense card if you're just gaming. What's it for specifically?

 

[Asus]

That is a nice card. Although for the price I'd pick up an Audigy2 ZS instead. Same performance in games as the XFI and same sound output quality. This card does not mix ports and has a firewire also.

I have also heard people saying they have crackle noises with XFI cards with certain PC setups (like on the old Live cards). Creative has acknowledged the issue. Audigy2 ZS has been around awhile and shouldn't have any issues like that.

 

[Lemonking]

I heard it makes BF2 sound goldy...I relly wanna see how it sounds.

 

[Garfield_]

I heard it makes BF2 sound goldy...I relly wanna see how it sounds.

With headsets or headphones you'll be able to hear exactly, and i really mean exactly the location of the enemy trying to kill you. Not sure how itll sound with speakers except pure awesomeness

 

[Garfield_]

I heard it makes BF2 sound goldy...I relly wanna see how it sounds.

Got your card yet?

 

[DreamThrall]

imo.

 

[Lemonking]

Got your card yet?

I think I wont be getting it until Thursday.

 

[Garfield_]

Hmm me too. They sent my package yesterday so it should reach my city tomorrow =D

EDIT: I just un-ordered it because they've put the wrong pricetag on it, $50 instead of $200, going to pick it from a local store today instead: D

 

[Lemonking]

it shipped out yesterday,so I might be getting it today..maybe

 

[DrDevin]

It is a good card. I've been using it for DVD-Audio, games, and lots of music (havent used any content creation features yet). I've used a 5.1 system, headphones and some IEMs.

The crystalizer feature is quite useless (at least to me), audio appears too bright and the sound quality is not improved.

The 3d headphone feature, as Gardield_ said, works really well. If you use a set of headphones and enable it, your headphones will produce a very very good replication of a 5.1 system.

Since it supports every audio standard in use it works with top settings in every game out now and probably into the far future. Games like battlefield 2 sound awesome with full EAX effects and 128 audio channels (ie 128 sound sources in the game like gunfire, birds, wind etc).

Performance is good as it offloads audio chores from the CPU.

I havent gotten any noise issues with it but creative is currently working on a solution, and will exchange your card with a modified one if it has a noise problem.

They also released new beta drivers recently.

 

[Garfield_]

Got mine today, not tested it enought to say anything about it yet though. One thing i noticed was that it had a heatsink on the processor, the cards on pictures never had, does it mean mine is a newer version?

 

[Lemonking]

ugh...I didnt get mine yet,tell me how good it is Garfield.

 

[Garfield_]

Have'nt been able to test it fully yet since I had to re-install windows just to get BF2 working. Played some BF2 yesterday though and I can tell, it really feels like a completly new game, everything sounds different in a good way. Weapons are super cool and realistic and the command sounds, it's like EA hired new voice actors, for the more professional ones :O

Another thing worth mentioning is that BF2 seems to run alot faster, not by watching the frame rates but helicopters are possibly 15% faster in the air compared to what they were on my AC97.

It's a great soundcard, expensive but it's really worth the money since you won't have to upgrade to a better card in atleast 3-4 years.

 

[Lemonking]

well, I just installed mine...Im,listening to some music.I cant rly tell If it sounds better thoe,IM gonna try BF2 in sec...I hope I wont have to reformat like u did...