Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series Sound Card

X-Fi - The Sound of Gaming
Chosen by professional gamers, the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card delivers the ultimate PC gaming audio experience.

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Its new PCI Express chipset with hardware-accelerated EAX 5.0 and OpenAL gaming is designed to give you the winning edge on the latest PCs. Combined with Xtreme Fidelity technologies for accurate and immersive 3D positional audio even over headphones, it's the ultimate gaming solution under Windows XP and Vista. Onboard Optical I/O and real-time Dolby Digital encoding give you single cable connectivity to your surround sound decoder, and PowerDVD software plays your Dolby Digital or DTS movies in incredible surround sound over headphones or speakers.

Sound Blaster X-Fi is Fatal1ty's choice for audio
"When I'm competing, I need top-class performance and the most realistic sound to help me know where my opponents are. Sound Blaster X-Fi really delivers for me...there is nothing faster or better." Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel is the best-known professional gamer in the world with 38 First Place wins in eight years of tournament play.

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Realistic EAX® 5.0 sound effects
Hear crackling gunfire and earth-shattering explosions. EAX® 5.0 delivers realistic sound effects that will engage you in long hours of gameplay. Now you will have the sound to match the graphics of your games, bringing on a whole new dimension and excitement to your game play. EAX is a collection of powerful, innovative audio technologies designed by Creatives world-class audio scientists to bring true interactive 3D audio to PC gaming. The sophisticated environment effects of EAX provide a greater sense of realism to the gaming experience, and enhance the overall enjoyment of the player. The additional audio cues provided by EAX can also give gamers a competitive advantage in multiplayer games, enabling the early detection of the enemy. It's therefore no surprise that EAX is well established as the premier choice for interactive 3D audio for games.

EAX® and 3D audio restoration for Windows Vista®
Creative ALchemy restores X-Fi enhanced surround sound effects for great gaming. It provides multi-channel audio for legacy game titles running on Windows Vista™. Vista deals with audio in a different way to XP, and as a result certain legacy game titles, that use EAX or DirectSound3D (DS3D), can result in stereo output without any effects. Creative ALchemy is a powerful tool that restores the audio for a DirectSound3D game running on Windows Vista to its former glory - in full surround sound with hardware accelerated audio mixing, sampling rate conversion and EAX effects.

Accurate 3D positional audio
Listen to 3D positional audio so accurate, you can locate your enemies through mere sound alone! Plus, the X-Fi CMSS®-3D gives you amazing surround sound even with normal stereo headphones. X-Fi CMSS®-3D moves the sound away from your ears and into the space around you. You'll be surrounded by nine virtual speakers and feel like you are sitting in with your favourite band or that you've been dropped into the best seat in the movie theatre.

Hardware accelerated performance
Get unbeatable performance with hardware accelerated audio that blows motherboard audio away. Boost your performance even further in games like Quake 4, Battlefield 2, Prey, Unreal Tournament 3 and others that take advantage of X-RAM.

Clearer voice chats
Communicating clearly with your teammates can make a real difference with your performance. When you plug in your headset or microphone you will hear the difference immediately. Thanks to the high-quality input and hardware audio processing, your teammates will definitely hear you loud and clear.

Boost your audio game performance
Designed for gameplay with ultra-realistic EAX® 5.0 sound effects, accelerated performance and a dedicated game mode.

Dolby Digital Live
Not just a solution for gamers, X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series can also connect to your home theatre system through a single digital cable (available separately) for compelling 5.1 surround sound. If you have a 5.1 surround sound system set up, you'll be able to watch movies from your PC and enjoy the same immersive experience.

Windows Vista compatibility
Certified UAA compliant for maximum Windows Vista compatibility.

Revitalise downloaded music and movies
Make all your music sound better with Xtreme Fidelity audio technology which restores the detail and clarity to compressed music files like MP3s. Most downloadable music and movies are compressed, making downloads fast, and storage and portability convenient. However, the quality and fullness of these songs and soundtracks are diminished - resulting in flat and lifeless audio. The X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrancy to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced, ensuring you hear everything in crystal clear clarity.

Cinematic surround sound from DVD movies
Enjoy cinematic DVD movie experiences with PowerDVD software featuring DTS-ES® and Dolby Digital® EX decoding. (Requires download via Internet connection).

Enjoy low latency ASIO recording
Record your own music now. The PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium has fantastic inputs and low-latency ASIO drivers for great music recording.