Turbo charge your gaming experience with Xtreme Fidelity audio!

The Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer sound card delivers faster audio performance and intense, realistic sound in all your games. Headphone surround sound is better too - so good, you'll swear you're listening to multichannel speakers - and your games will sound richer as you hear all of the crisp, clear highs and bone-crushing lows you've been missing. It's Sound Blaster...on steroids!

XTREME FIDELITY GAMING

Get the speed you need when every second counts
Win big with a powerful, completely new audio processing engine that boosts real game performance by up to 15% over motherboard audio and still gives you the fullest audio effects possible!

Hear your enemies before they find you
X-Fi CMSS®-3D Headphone creates nine virtual speakers over stereo headphones for positional audio that's so accurate you can actually locate enemies by sound. Multichannel speakers are even better with audio cues that let you hear exactly where they are - even between speakers.

Immerse yourself in a new dimension of sound
Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room. Take reality to the next level with EAX® ADVANCED HD™¹ sound effects in games.

Get lost in the details
Revitalize your compressed game sounds with X-Fi Crystalizer™ and hear crisp, sharp gunshots and deep, booming explosions for the most intense gaming experience ever.

XTREME FIDELITY ENTERTAINMENT

Restore the details and vibrance to your music and movies
X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrance to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced so you'll hear everything in crystal clarity.

X-Fi CMSS-3D technology expands your stereo MP3s and digital movies into surround sound over multichannel speakers, stereo speakers or even headphones. Voices are centered in front of you and ambient sounds are moved all around you.

Enjoy truly cinematic movie sound
The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card delivers THX® certified surround sound and includes Cyberlink's PowerDVD software with DTS™ and Dolby Digital®-EX decoding via free download for an unbeatable DVD movie watching experience. (Internet connection is required)

XTREME FIDELITY AUDIO CREATION

Get the most advanced features and effects for music and audio creation available in a consumer solution.

• Near transparent conversion to and from any resolution
• Digital-matched recording capabilities in resolutions from 44.1kHz to 96kHz
• ASIO support with as low as one millisecond latency
• Up to eight different hardware effects
• 24-bit SoundFont® sampling, and 3D MIDI

Feature	Description
Technical Specs
24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs:	96kHz sample rate
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources:	96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources:	192kHz to stereo output
16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates:	8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
ASIO 2.0 support:	16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring
Enhanced SoundFont support:	Up to 24-bit resolution
Audio Performance (Rated Output @ 2Vrms, Typical Value)
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted):	Stereo Output 109dB Front and Rear Channels 109dB Center, Subwoofer and Side Channels 109dB
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (20kHz Low-pass filter):	0.004%
Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input ):	10Hz to 46kHz
Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/192kHz input):	10Hz to 88kHz (Stereo only)
Connectivity
Speaker and Headphone connections:	Stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks)
Flexijack:	Line In / Microphone In / Optical Out¹ via shared 3.5mm mini jack
Auxiliary Line level Input:	4-pin Molex connector
Front Panel Header	Intel HD Audio Compatible (2x5pin)

Basic Requirements

Windows XP:

• Genuine Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz, AMD® 1 GHz processor or faster
• Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Window XP Pro x64
• 256MB RAM
• 600MB of free hard disk space
• Available PCI 2.1 slot for the audio card
• CD-ROM/CD-RW or CD/DVD-ROM required for software installation
• Graphics card with DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® compliant 3D graphics accelerator
• Internet connection is required to obtain free PowerDVD players with Dolby® Digital and DTS™ decoding

Windows Vista™:

• Genuine Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz, AMD® 1 GHz processor or faster
• Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
• Microsoft Windows Vista™ 32-bit or 64-bit
• 512 MB RAM
• 600 MB of free hard disk space
• Available PCI 2.1 compliant slot (PCI 2.2 and 2.3 also supported)
• Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately)
• CD-ROM drive installed
• Internet connection is required to obtain free PowerDVD players with Dolby® Digital and DTS™ decoding