Thursday, July 7, 2011

Best Gaming Sound Card 2011

Creative Labs SB0880 PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Sound Card



he X-Fi Titanium uses a powerful audio-processing engine outperforming other motherboard audio options. The Creative PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium sound card allows your PC to perform its audio tasks at optimum levels. How does 3-D positional audio sound? You can locate opponents by hearing, using surround sound speakers or stereo headphones. Imagine hearing crackling gunfire and earth-shattering explosions delivered by the EAX 5.0. Hardware audio acceleration boosts the performance of your favorite games. DVD’s are experienced through cinematic surround sound delivered through DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding delivered by PowerDVD’s software. 

The card also features a TOSLINK input at the back which helps with sound functionality discarding static squeak/turn under high processor load. According to users the music quality is excellent and gaming audio experiences incredible. The only drawback seems that while ‘Entertainment Mode’ allows for a impeccable audio experience it seems to deactivate some gaming features. On the other side of the coin, ‘Gaming Mode’ reactivates all the great audio features but the music experience is sacrificed. So, it becomes a bit of a schlep to constantly switch between the two. Omitting all the hiccups users still rate Creative has the best product on the market. 

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