Need a good sound card?
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The Creative X-Fi Titanium will fit into that price limit by $5 seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102024
colt1911
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Nice looking card but in reading some of the Newegg reviews there seems to be a lot of driver issues. Can any one confirm this. I do see most have problems with XP and I'm running Vista 64 bit. Just want to make sure before spending the money.
Driver problems can come up any model as well as any brand. When first getting this build together and installing the software for the X-Fi Xtreme Audio the auto updater installed Vista drivers on XP! Someone at Creative stuffed the July 2007 Vista update in the XP section on the support site! 
The MS updates then also saw the same problem since I dual boot XP along with Vista here. Fortunately someone finally corrected that mess! That was the only real problem besides the occasional install glitch you would run into when going to install drivers for any addon device I've seen.
Creative offers support for Linux now as well as for the 64bit editions of Vista. The support/download page for the Titanium can be looked over at http://support.creative.com/Product...odID=17927&prodName=PCI+Express+X-Fi+Titanium
I would say that the Titanium and Titanium Fatality Pro models would be the step up from the Xtreme Audio that also sees a PCI-E model when you look at the models seen at http://support.creative.com/Products/Products.aspx?catid=1&catName=Sound+Blaster
The MS updates then also saw the same problem since I dual boot XP along with Vista here. Fortunately someone finally corrected that mess! That was the only real problem besides the occasional install glitch you would run into when going to install drivers for any addon device I've seen.
Creative offers support for Linux now as well as for the 64bit editions of Vista. The support/download page for the Titanium can be looked over at http://support.creative.com/Product...odID=17927&prodName=PCI+Express+X-Fi+Titanium
I would say that the Titanium and Titanium Fatality Pro models would be the step up from the Xtreme Audio that also sees a PCI-E model when you look at the models seen at http://support.creative.com/Products/Products.aspx?catid=1&catName=Sound+Blaster
Asus Xonar. Great reviews, from what I've read, and without the driver issues you receive from the Creative products.
That's an alternative to consider. The preference here has always been with Creative however due to seeing the EAX effects now using OpenAL in Vista.
Your selection has been narrowed down to the Titanium, Xtreme Audio both by Creative or the Asus model mep916 is pointing to at the link there. The rest is upto you now.
Your selection has been narrowed down to the Titanium, Xtreme Audio both by Creative or the Asus model mep916 is pointing to at the link there. The rest is upto you now.
The Asus Xonar, via driver hacks, emulates EAX support up to the 5.0 standard. It's not perfect, but it's definitely sufficient.
