Sound Blaster X-Fi Issues Explored

ranger1033 · 26-December-06, 02:07 PM

Sound Blaster X-Fi Issues Explored

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Originally Posted by NGOHQ.com


	Back in May, we published an article and report about many issues reported on the latest Creative Labs product Ã‚â€“ The Sound Blaster X-Fi. A few weeks later Creative released information and blamed DDR Dual Channel for these related issues. And, after a few months, they changed their version and blamed NvidiaÃ‚â€™s nForce4 for these issues, instead. Nvidia never responded to us about their side in the story, but they denied it on a chat. We kept following this story and we received a lot of reports from users without nForce4 that claimed they had the same issues. So, to investigate these issues, we grabbed an X-Fi XtremeMusic from the closest hardware store and checked it out on the following motherboards: Asus M2R32-MVP, Asus A8N-SLI, Asus A8N32-SLI, ECS RS482-M and Gigabyte GA-965P. We used Windows XP SP2 with the latest updates and the latest drivers for all the devices. We also used the latest BIOS versions and ensured that the X-Fi was not sharing an IRQ with any other device by plugging it into non-shared PCI slot. Full Story at NGOHQ.com

ManOfMandango · 26-December-06, 03:48 PM

Wow. I've been trying to figure out what the heck was causing my crackling and it came down to drivers. Glad to see that there is some clarification. I have the Asus P5N32-SLI Premimum motherboard and Klispch 2.1 speakers. The particular sound card is the X-Fi XtremeGamer. How lousy it is to find out that its Creative's poor preparation that caused this! Has anyone found any solutions or third party drivers that solve the problem? I'm an audiophile and I simply can't stand this

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26-December-06, 03:48 PM		#2 (permalink)
ManOfMandango Apex Advanced Techie	Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Issues Explored Wow. I've been trying to figure out what the heck was causing my crackling and it came down to drivers. Glad to see that there is some clarification. I have the Asus P5N32-SLI Premimum motherboard and Klispch 2.1 speakers. The particular sound card is the X-Fi XtremeGamer. How lousy it is to find out that its Creative's poor preparation that caused this! Has anyone found any solutions or third party drivers that solve the problem? I'm an audiophile and I simply can't stand this .

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