– All playback channels support 16 and 24 bit stereo format. Supports Microsoft ‘out-of-the-box’ HDA driver.– I2C EERPOM support to disable line in, MIC in or auxiliary in or SPDIF input.
Supports 5 independent DMA record stream:. – 1x stereo digital hardware output channel.ġ) Re-configure the number of analog output exposed to OS.Ģ) Disable headphone and digital output channels. – 1x stereo headphone hardware output channel. – 4x stereo analog output hardware output channels. Supports 3 independent DMA playback stream:. Thankfully, the SB0770 has a EMU20K1 and also has a companion CA0112 “Golden Gate” chip that allows switching from UAA to X-FI mode. Xtreme Audio cards are total crap software solutions, and doesn’t even contain the genuine EMU20K1 chip. I was quite worried when I saw the board shape. Instead, this X-Fi resembles the budget-bin Xtreme Audio PCB layout. The card has no internal connections to connect to expansion devices such as the X-Fi front panel. The card which I received was the SB0770, but I believe there’s a twin SB0772 model also. I even had to make an entry on the Sound Blaster Product Index. This isn’t any normal Xtreme Gamer though, it’s quite different from all the one’s I’ve seen before. They sent a rather odd-looking Xtreme Gamer instead. I ordered a OEM Creative Labs Xtreme Music from an online store. Baby goat food costs money, so I opted for yet another budget mid-range Creative solution. They’re super expensive and quite difficult to get here in the UK. I really would have liked an Auzentech soundcard. I wanted something half good to hook up to our Yamaha RX-V461DAB though. I never expected to buy another Creative soundcard. Audigy owners had to wait nearly 2 years after Vista’s launch before they could use basic features such as microphone, multi speaker, EAX etc. It developed all sorts of nasty issues that never surfaced under Windows XP.Ĭreative were slow to react. It was never the same after the loss of DirectSound. 
That’s the theory, but with the Creative Labs soundcards I’ve owned previously they develop problems over time. So in theory, X-Fi should suffer with the same issues as Audigy. For those who don’t know, Audigy series and X-Fi drivers are built around a similar driver architecture and share common driver parts. I wanted to see how the sofware and CPU usage compared on my home rig. I finally bit the bullet and grabbed an X-Fi to play with.
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