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Daniel A. Begun - Tue, May 13, 2008
Creative has just released the USB 2.0-based Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 audio adapter, making it now much simpler to get surround sound on laptops and cramped small-form-factor PCs (LAN party anyone?)--or allaying the fears of those who are hesitant to crack open their systems and start mucking around inside. While Creative calls it a...
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Chad Weirick - Wed, Jul 11, 2007
EA is perhaps one of the most influential companies in the modern software entertainment industry. The company owns some of the most popular gaming franchises on the market today: Sims, Madden, C & C, and the list just goes on. When EA speaks, the industry as a whole listens.What is EA talking about these days? Innovation, or rather...
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Chad Weirick - Sat, Mar 24, 2007
One of the features of the Sound Blaster Xi-Fi that many have wished for in a laptop sound card was the simply amazing positional audio support for headphone users. It seems it shall finally come to pass. "The new Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Notebook card forgoes the PCMCIA interface and...
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Matt Beauvais - Mon, Jan 22, 2007
Creative has announced their ALchemy project which is aimed at providing Sound Blaster X-Fi drivers for Windows Vista. In Vista, Microsoft has removed the Hardware Abstraction Layer(HAL), which DirecSound and DirectSound3D require. While games that use OpenAL still work, those that use DirectSound would face problems, until now....
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Dave Altavilla - Sat, Nov 04, 2006
OK, this is pretty HOT. We've been waiting for a set of good quality wireless speakers and it looks like we just might have found them. Speaker Power: 36 Watts RMS per channel (5 channels) 130 Watts RMS subwoofer Frequency Response: 35Hz ~ 20kHz THX Certification assures ultimate...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Aug 24, 2006
NGOHQ is reporting that Creative Labs is blaming NVIDIA for cracking and other sound quality issues when an X-Fi sound card is installed in an nForce 4 motherboard. This reminds me of the good ol' days of installing the PCI Latency patch on VIA chipset-based motherboards when using a...
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Sean Pelletier - Wed, May 17, 2006
The Inquirer sends word that owners of Creative's flagship X-Fi sound cards are up in arms and have formed a petition to have several key fixes and enhancements made to the product. From crackling audio to bloated software and a lack of any significant support for X-Ram, there is plenty for X-Fi owners to complain about. Perhaps the largest...
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Sean Pelletier - Fri, Mar 17, 2006
TechReport have managed to get their hands on a new Creative Labs X-Fi Fatal1ty to see whether the bundled I/O ports and 64MB of X-Ram warrant the price increase over cheaper models in the X-Fi product line. Granted, this card features the same X-Fi architecture that impressed us when we reviewed the X-Fi XtremeMusic. However, it appears as...
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Dave Altavilla - Sun, Jan 15, 2006
Xbit takes on the Creative Labs SoundBlaster X-Fi and has this to say..."Well, we have just got acquainted with the true successor to the legendary sound card family from Creative. It is very nice that the company decided to continue working on the sound processing algorithms focusing on the...
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Matt Beauvais - Mon, Jan 09, 2006
ACHTUNG! Creavtivemods.com has a new Mod Of The Month for you to look at, and this time it's a tribute to one of the greatest free games ever made, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. You should have no problem defending ze depot with the "FuG-01/ET".Marcin Krupa, this month's MOTM is not only interested in case modding, but off-roading...
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Jeff Bouton - Fri, Dec 30, 2005
When it comes to sound cards, the competition is a lot more "low-profile" than the video card sector. With audio cards, Creative is enjoyed the most success, being the most recognizable name in the market. ExtremeMHZ.com has a review of the Creative Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, which they feel delivers the best PC audio...
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Matt Beauvais - Fri, Nov 11, 2005
Yeah folks, it's late, but the news keeps on rolling! I'm sure many of you are wanting to get your hands on ATI's new Radeon X1800XT, so I've been looking around the net a bit... nothing. A few sites list them, but the adventure stops with...
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Matt Beauvais - Wed, Nov 02, 2005
Creative Labs X-Fi @ PC Perspective | HH Perspective "If you're on the fence with the X-Fi, consider gaming as a big factor. At the moment there's no real quality improvement (see 24-bit Crystalizer and CMSS-3D) to audio or...
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Jeff Bouton - Fri, Sep 02, 2005
Iwill ZPC64 Review @ AMDZone: "We have been testing Iwill boards since their early VIA Socket 462 offerings, and to tell you the truth we were a bit surprised to see them jump into the small form factor crowd. They did with a lineup...
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Jeff Bouton - Fri, Feb 25, 2005
Good morning and happy Friday to you. The hardware news front is a little quiet today, but we pulled together a few items worth the read. Check out two flavors of Mushkin RAM, then wrap it up with a new monitor from Creative...
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Jeff Bouton - Thu, Nov 11, 2004
Good morning all! There is a lot going on today in the computer hardware world. My e-mail was loaded with a broad array of hardware reviews from primo headphones to the Dothan from Intel. So get comfortable as we take a journey through today's hardware tid-bits... The Tech...
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