Bull shit..

Its running on my eVGA nF4 SLI motherboard now.

Bullshit

Running fine on my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium

Also running fine on my ASUS A8N

X-fi
I read about clicks and pops, well even an old London City did not Click and Pop, next creative talks about THX let me tell you that THX is based on Re-equalizion from any given soundtrack, the low frequency for example from 2 - 47 hz will be send to the Center so that the build in base manager can pick it up, the so called Clear Sound will be curved down from 10 to 14 Khz down and flat at 18 - 20 Khz, The main speakers are set to wide, The rear left and right are set to none wide, the rear center at 0, the Left and richt wall speakers are set to inverted, the front center also to 0, the Lfe output will be set at the given compression, home use 80 hz, Dollby Digital 120 Hz, DTS 116 Hz. Now do you get my drift. Any card what even is trying to change that sound spectrum in any given way ain't THX and there is much more, the Audigy2 ZS had a better spectrum in this range, maybe not so clear in high tones, but why not using some compressors and you have the same as what creative is doing, not everybody is playing a game, guess that is the only thing they can think about and even than, think people its all a market setup.

Xantis.

Bluegear's card is just a rebranded korean card from Hitec. Both lack updates since they were released. To tell you the truth I played with the idea to get one but after I read this thread about lack of comatibility with nForce2 chipsets I gave it up.

True: X-Fi had teething problems with some nForce4 boards but these have been - unlike problems with hda/hitec card - cured. You guys are linking to the threads you have not even read! The fix has been released and there are no more problems with nforce4 chipsets. I should know as I am upgading mobo soon. No problems with my X-Fi so far anyway ;)

I meant this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=27& hreadid=1669536&enterthread=y
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Thank you for pointing out the typo: the correct number is 116dB.

Dolby Live and "a real audio enthusiast" have never heard of each other.
Dolby Live is a lossy compression format that introduces audible latency to the signal.
Had that with soundstorm before. No, thank You.

you never heard nVidea soundstorm ore a teratec DD-L card dit you ?

i tryed the X-Fi and teratec DD-L cards and use to own a nForce 2 mobo
in cobenation whit a YAMAHA RP-U200 DD amp. and some magnat 5.1 loadspeakers
http://www.yamahamultimedia.com/yec/products/cavit/rpu200. sp
this combenation sounds beter then what most people use for there normal home soundsystem.

when i dit hearing test's on it i found out that the teratec sound is mouths beter when playing sound and movie files but in game's it all depens on if the game suport only SB EAX 3/4/5 ore also other soundcards

when using the teratec whit batlefield 2 ore Q4 the sound is just crap and even a audigy 1 wins hamds down
but when you play F.E.A.R. not even the X-Fi can beat the DD-L card
(yes you have nicer sound efects but even do that the efects it self sounds a bit better they dont have the cristall clear feelling that DD hase and not the placement)

and its not realy there fould ider EAX 1/2 is openstandard but EAX 3/4/5 is a SB only standard

I couldn't agree more. I want to run CentOS with BQ to work on, but with no XFi drivers for linux, it's either ditch my near $200 card for a $40 dollar sb live! with good driver support for Linux. Either way it realy pisses me off. We spend the cash on the hardware and they won't even support the top few os's, just WinDOUGHzzzz! And even then, only 32 bit.

What's the point in having a kcik ass machine if you can't run the ****ing thing?

Maybe b/c the "top few OSs" are "WinDoughZZZzz" (thats got to be the most retarded one yet - did you think of it?) at 96% marketshare, followed by "others" at 4% share. I can see how Creative would definitely want to devote lots of resources to a free OS run by hobbiest who feel people who charge for products are evil. Face it... The Linux community is a pretty ugly looking thing for most vendors who arent just looking to pimp services, consulting, and fat support contracts.

I have aan Asus P4P800motherboard and a 2.8 Ghz pocessor. I cannot (attempting with 2 cards) to install the software and have the d--- thing work akl I can get is sound from my front 3 soeakers on my Creative 7.1 speaker I am running an ATI X850 GRAPHICS CARD AND WONDER ABOUT COMPATABILITY ISSUES. i TRY TO START ANY OF THE SOFTWARE . i GET ERROR MESSAGES FROM ALL ATTEMPTS SAYING "THERE IS NO DEVICE TO SUPPORT TTHA UTILITY". tHIS HAPPENS WITH ALL UTILITIES. any IDEAS WOULD BE APPREICTED.

I agree.

I would like to see a 4 way X-FI round up. I can play BF2 in ultra mode with my Xtreme and the framerates are smooth as silky. No slowdowns.

Yes, other versions would require DI box to record from high impedance outputs like electric guitars and such