Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital
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May, 2012

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

  by Andrew Gould (techsmart.co.za) - Oct, 2008

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The Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 is an external sound card that you plug into your desktop or laptop via USB. X-Fi puts back all the stuff that the compression of the sound files took out.

Gameplay is also made that bit better as you can now hear enemies stalking up to you, just before you whip round and end things for them. RRP: R709.

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

  by Maxim Lyadov (ixbtlabs.com) - Sep, 2008

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An external X-Fi solution in tests.

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 was introduced in May 2008. This solution is seemingly called to replace Audigy2 NX. Like its predecessor, X-Fi Surround 5.1 features the USB2.0 interface, wireless remote, analog 5.1 speaker output and EAX 4.0...

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Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 DE

  by Varun Singh (techtree.com) - Oct, 2002

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The Audigy might claim to do 24Bit/96KHz audio playback, and flaunt a 100dB Signal-to-Noise ratio, or even go to the extent of adding a "Firewire" port to your machine, but its expensive! That product is still priced a little too high to be considered...

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

  by James Hutchinson (goodgearguide.com.au) - Jun, 2008

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In an attempt to remedy the poor quality integrated audio in many notebooks, Creative has produced the external USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1. I...

EAX and X-Fi support, versatile connections

No Mac OS X support

The Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 is a portable, well-rounded external sound card with all the advantages of Creative's internal sound card range. Some won't notice its benefits, but its support for EAX and X-Fi technology will be an advantage for...

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Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Series Review

  by Tal Blevins (gear.ign.com) - Nov, 2000

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For years, Creative has been the unabashed leader in computer audio technology, and this latest round of sound cards proves that Creative still holds ...

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Creative Sound Blaster Surround 5.1

  by Michael Jeulin-L (lesnumeriques.com) - Feb, 2008

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La qualité est au rendez-vous. Assez complète, cette carte son offre une bonne alternative aux cartes sons internes, pour les jeux. On regrette son manque de fonctionnalités pour un usage cinéma.

EAX 3.0 + CMSS ; Bundle Complet ; Qualité de restitution ; Connectique

Télécommande en option ; Interface gourmande

Pour les mesures audio, nous utilisons le logiciel RightMark audio dans sa version 6.0.6. Pour vous aider à vous y retrouver dans les résultats, voici un petit guide : Sampling mode : Cela correspond tout simplement au mode d'échantillonnage utilisé...

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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital

  by Pierre Labousset (cnetfrance.fr) - Feb, 2002

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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital : La nouvelle carte son de Creative Labs se montre à l'aise aussi bien en matière de jeu que de lecture de DVD-Vidéo. Une meilleure reconnaissance du matériel n'eût pas nuit, pas plus qu'un rajeunissement du...

utilisations variées, carte économe en ressources processeur

installation, processeur âgé

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

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Creative Sound Blaster Surround 5.1

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La carte Sound Blaster Surround 5.1 de Creative constitue une mise à niveau facile du son surround 24 bits pour PC et ordinateurs portables. Elle est simple d'installation et permet l'intégration complète de tous types d'ordinateurs dans n'importe...

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Carte son Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 : performante mais exigeante

  by Jean-Pierre Roche (erenumerique.fr) - Jun, 2008

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Même si l'intégration des fonctions de gestion du son à la quasi-totalité des ordinateurs du marché a porté un coup sévère aux cartes son indépendantes, les utilisateurs exigeants restent un marché non négligeable. D'autant plus que la montée en...

Très bonnes performances ; Fonctionnement de base sans installation ; PowerDVD fourni

Exigences informatiques

Très abordable, la Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 permet de disposer de manière simple mais efficace d'un son de qualité et du surround sur tout PC – portable ou de bureau – pourvu qu'il soit assez musclé. Ses exigences en matière d'équipement...

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Great sound

  by Tone the Moan (amazon.co.uk) - Oct, 2010

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Great sound

The X-Fi was a doddle to install on Win7 64bit. Just followed the instructions in it was up and running all in about 10 mins. The annoying thing was when the automatic updates started it took nearly 2 hours to download them from creative(and I have a...

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XP driver issues

  by Steve Swift (amazon.co.uk) - Jul, 2010

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XP driver issues

I've now had this soundcard for a year, but not for much longer... There are a couple of driver issues (I'm using XP if that matters; I doubt it). The worst is a registry key handle leak. After 24 hours in use, I get over two million Registry Key...

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Shoddy hardware, shoddy support

  by Rich (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2010

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Shoddy hardware, shoddy support

Despite Creative's usual attempts to force at least 10 useless pieces of resources-hogging software, setting this card up is relatively simple. Once you configure the speakers through the console launcher, the sound quality is great. HOWEVER. Before...

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Couldn't wait to try it when it arrived

  by A. Rowley (amazon.co.uk) - Apr, 2010

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Couldn't wait to try it when it arrived

I wanted this card so that I could play tunes through an old set of 5.1 Creative speakers using my laptop. As I said I couldn't wait to try it when it arrived. Hooking it up to the subwoofer and speakers was no problem at all. The software was a bit...

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If you appreciate music...................buy this

  by A. Mitchell (amazon.co.uk) - Apr, 2010

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If you appreciate music...................buy this

Have purchased the Sound Blaster X-Fi surround 5.1,if you appreciate your music, then this is a must. Would reccomend this to anybody that will listen, sorry to bang on about it, but what a difference this has made to our music.

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Very good option for a sound card

  by Anand Balachandran Nair (amazon.co.uk) - Mar, 2010

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Very good option for a sound card

I will give 100% to this product because it is an excellent sound system with a software the sound can be controlled according to our interest. other feature I have noticed is it do have karaoke software also. After the arrival of the product to my...

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No native support for Dolby Digital

  by Mr. M. Rossi (amazon.co.uk) - Mar, 2010

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No native support for Dolby Digital

I purchased the sound card shortly after buying my home theatre system when I realized that the laptop card did not handle 5.1 channels via the HDMI connection (Laptop-->HDMI-->TV-->SPDIF-->Home Theatre). Unfortunately it took me days to...

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A Great Purchase

  by Mr. S. A. Lucas (amazon.co.uk) - Mar, 2010

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A Great Purchase

A great product straight from the box.The Card sounds amazing. Works absolutely fine with Windows 7. A real bargain price for what you get. You do not need to spend any more than this as this Sound card is a Gem.Everything that is required to attach...

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AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE

  by A. Nehan (amazon.co.uk) - Feb, 2010

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AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE

After a lengthy installation it requested a connection to the Internet in order that it could download approx 250MB of updates. It beggars belief that a sound card thats brand new could possibly need 250MB of downloads to get it to work!! I did...

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More Oomph for my music!!

  by Robin Neta (amazon.co.uk) - Feb, 2010

amazon.co.uk

More Oomph for my music!!

Very,very good soundcard especially when coupled with a good set of speakers. Am using mine with the Creative T6100, I know I'm kind of a sucker for creative but then you can't knock them when they come up with products like these..The sound is...

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Brand Creative Technology

Audio Output

DAC Data Width16-bit/24-bit/32-bit
Form FactorExternal/Plug-in card
Interface TypeHi-Speed USB/PCI/USB
Max Sample Rate48kHz/96kHz
Signal ProcessorCreative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity/EMU-10K1
Sound Output Mode3D Sound/5.1 channel surround
Sound Synthesis MethodE-mu Systems / Wavetable/Wavetable
TypeSound card

Header

CompatibilityPC
LocalizationEnglish/English / German / Spanish
ManufacturerCreative Technology
Model5.1/Surround 5.1
Packaged Quantity1
Product LineCreative Sound Blaster Live!/Creative Sound Blaster Surround/Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi

Miscellaneous

Microsoft CertificationCertified for Windows Vista/Compatible with Windows 7
Vista CertificationCertified for Windows Vista

Service & Support

Type1 year warranty /2 years warranty

System Requirements

OS RequiredMicrosoft Windows 2000 / NT4.0 / Microsoft Windows 95/98 / Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition / Windows ME/Microsoft Windows 2000 / NT4.0 / Microsoft Windows 95/98 / Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition/Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 / Microsoft Windows XP SP1/Microsoft Windows Vista / Microsoft Windows XP SP2

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