Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Review

Following up on their Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality FPS soundcard review, Guru of 3D have posted another extensive X-Fi review, this time it’s the entry-level X-Fi XTreme Music soundcard:

Creative’s X-Fi is very impressive. I can’t stop playing music with it. I can’t stop playing games with it. I think this time Creative got it just perfect with the X-Fi. It has a rare combination of new features that work great and has a mixture of the best qualities of all the past sound cards we have reviewed. For gamers and music fans, though, this is the best Creative sound card to date. Musicians looking for something to provide basic recording and effects, the X-Fi will be okay, but not great.

Performance wise, what’s the point? There’s Creative and then there’s everybody else. The X-Fi has all that good hardware and it is put to good use. I should think the X-Fi is faster than the Audigy2 ZS in any and all applications. Without a doubt, the X-Fi is the best Creative sound card to date.

Guru3D