October 11, 2005

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Review

The Tech-Report has another one of their thorough reviews on the new line of sound cards from Creative. I don't know how they have time to do 22 page reviews with dozens of benchmarks, but I guess someone has to do it. I do doubt the X-Fi will get much game support in the future as sound hardware is not breaking out of the "good enough" quality of built-in PC audio.

Despite its faults, the X-Fi XtremeMusic is highly recommended. In fact, the card's strong performance in our gaming and listening tests, its low CPU utilization, and the X-Fi architecture's considerable potential warrants an Editor's Choice award. If I were buying a sound card for gaming and entertainment today, I'd spring for an XtremeMusic in a heartbeat.