Review of X-Fi Fatality and X-ram

[LoD]

The fact that the I/O drive is the X-Fi Fatal1ty's saving grace actually doesn't bode too well for the card. A virtually identical I/O drive is available with the X-Fi Platinum for as little as $152 online. That's about $100 less than the Fatal1ty, and all you really lose is a red LED and X-RAM. Considering X-RAM's dubious performance benefits with current titles, that's not much of a loss. You're far better off with an X-Fi Platinum or an XtremeMusic, at least until games are able to leverage X-RAM for tangible performance of quality benefits—unless, of course, you really like red LEDs.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/xfi-fatal1ty/index.x?pg=1

The quote above pretty much sums it up. Hope this is helpful for anyone looking into an X-Fi

[Papi4baby]

Re: Review of X-Fi Fatality and X-ram

Well i went with the musik version, the cards itself are the same but the top ones have the X-RAM(useless ram). I have yet to see a performance from this thing. Sounds are awesome thou.

[SO19Visionaries]

Re: Review of X-Fi Fatality and X-ram

pfft 109db signal to noise ratio my card has a 120db signal to noise ratio.


its a shame bf2 is so biased towards creative

[sackynut]

Re: Review of X-Fi Fatality and X-ram

my platinum rocks. its not about the performance of the card (IE. xram) but the sound quality, people have lost sight of that in sound cards.

[Papi4baby]

Re: Review of X-Fi Fatality and X-ram

my platinum rocks. its not about the performance of the card (IE. xram) but the sound quality, people have lost sight of that in sound cards.

Ditto

[Talus]

Re: Review of X-Fi Fatality and X-ram

XtremeMusic all the way (hate the name)